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Pods Constants and Security

In order to prevent the possibility of untrusted user passing potentially malicious data into the WordPress database, recent versions of Pods introduced several constants, which by default disable potentially dangerous usage. Some of these usages are common usage. When they are only available to trusted users they may be perfectly fine to use. This post …

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Pods project status update

We’ve been hard at work on Pods 3.0, which started out as Pods 2.4. We decided to up the version from Pods 2.4 to 3.0 due to some large performance improvement changes in our code architecture. Specifically, for memory usage and how we’re handling our objects for the inclusion of Field Groups and Loop Fields. …

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Pods Framework – Front-end suite

I have been developing a new front-end suite for Pods Framework over the last few weeks and thought it might be a good time to post a short dev report. You can read more about it and see some screenshots on my blog. http://cramer.co.za/pods-framework-front-end-suite/

Next Dev Meeting: July 22nd, 2013

Join us at our next #pods-dev meeting on Monday, July 22nd, 2013 at 12:30pm CDT via Freenode (web chat available at: https://pods.io/forums/dev-chat/) We’ll be talking config portability/versioning surrounding Packages, registering content types/fields via code within plugins/themes, and how best to create upgrade paths for your own content types and fields.

Don’t use the guid field. Ever. Ever, ever.

What is a GUID? GUID stands for “Globally Unique IDentifier”. The important property of a GUID is that it is unique; it matches no other GUID now or in the future. As a unique identifier it should never change. What does WordPress use the ‘guid’ fields in the database for? From this page in the WordPress …

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Hey stranger Where have we been We’ve been…

Hey stranger! Where have we been? We’ve been hard at work on code for Pods 2.1 and the next features coming in Pods 2.x

Keep an eye out on our GitHub at https://pods.io/github/ to see full change logs (check Issues) of what’s been changed, fixed, and added.

Pods 2.1 comes out tomorrow when WP 3.5 hits the scene, we’ve got some cool new features that we’ve put together so we can reach full WordPress VIP hosting compatibility. That means that WP VIP sites will be able to run this plugin, and joins a very exclusive list of plugins that have been vetted for the platform. This is definitely exciting, as every thing we tweak and improve, all of that gets passed onto our users and the developers who use this plugin for their projects.

Sorry for not posting more here, I’ve been head in the code in the IRC and on GitHub. But check out what’s coming up in December — I’ll be devoting the remainder of the month and as many weeks as it takes afterwards to get our site up to snuff again which includes a large amount of new documentation and video tutorials. See you all soon, and don’t forget code is poetry!