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[Pods 2.0 UI] Advanced

Hey all, the next section I tackled was the Advanced workflow. This section is meant to encompass the higher level Pods interactions including management of Pages, Templates, Helpers, Roles, and Settings that come with Pods. When you initially click the Advanced menu, you’ll be first brought to the Editor tab. These tabs will follow conventions …

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[Pods 2.0 UI] Setup

I spent some time today speaking with @sc0ttkclark about the process of setting up Pods. We discussed the need for the UI to mirror WordPress as close as possible but also recognize that Pods will be doing things that aren’t available in the current WordPress UI (via widgets, interactions, form elements, or otherwise) — that …

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Pods 2.0 Menu IA

Had a discussion with @jchristopher today – we both feel it’s a good idea to split up Pods admining from the management of content. As such, here is the proposed new Menu IA: Pods (located below Posts / Pages, in the ‘object’ menu section) – Manage Content – Add pod_name (one for each Pod) Pods …

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Pods UI plugin = PodUI in Pods 2.0

I’m currently working on the codebase for Pods UI and integrating it with my latest Admin UI class. You can watch progress at http://code.google.com/p/wp-pods/source/browse/branches/2.0/classes/PodUI.php Right now, this is the first version of PodUI for Pods 2.0. It needs a lot of clean up and fixing on pods_ui_manage and adding Pods-specific functionality.

Caching Options

Already thinking about Pods 2.1! So a new feature I’d like to work on is a Caching in Templates, Helpers, and Pod Pages – so that output will be pulled from cache until it’s expired – meaning less PHP processing and hitting the DB, plus certain things that don’t need to be updated often can …

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