Below is a full list of features for Pods 2.0, mostly highlighting new features / changes.
- Slick new interface, fully revamped to make managing your Pods easy and stress-free
- Large performance enhancements using transients and object caching (reducing queries per page load in both dashboard and site)
- New Upgrade wizard screens designed by RD2 will help you upgrade from previous versions and report any potential known issues before it actually upgrades your site
- We’ve partnered with Automattic to offer 1 free month of VaultPress service to users upgrading from Pods 1.x, you will see the offer in the upgrade screens.
- We’ve also partnered with iThemes to offer 25% off of a BackupBuddy license to users upgrading from Pods 1.x, you will see the offer in the upgrade screens.
- Add New Pod wizard guides you through creating or extending content types with custom fields
- Create New Content Types
- WP Objects
- Custom Post Types
- Custom Taxonomies
- Custom Content Types (each type lives in it’s own table, outside of the WP object architecture)
- WP Objects
- Extend Existing Content Types
- Post Types (Posts, Pages, Existing Custom Post Types)
- Taxonomies (Categories, Tags, Existing Custom Taxonomies)
- Media
- Users
- Comments
- Create New Content Types
- Choose to store your data using meta-based storage (default) or custom table based storage
- New Field Editor and Field Types
- New Field Type options built in (no more input helpers for most common input types!)
- Date / Time
- Date
- Date Format (m/d/Y etc)
- Toggle on/off HTML5 Input
- Time
- Time Format Type (12 hour / 24 hour)
- Time Format
- Toggle on/off HTML5 Input
- Time + Date
- Both noted above combined
- Date
- Number
- Plain Number
- Format (localized ie: 20,000)
- Choose # of Decimals
- Currency
- Currency Sign
- Currency Placement
- Format (localized ie: 3.000,00 vs 3,000.00)
- Choose # of Decimals
- Plain Number
- Yes / No
- Checkbox
- Radio Buttons
- Dropdown
- Text
- Plain Text
- Allow Shortcode
- Allow HTML
- Allow Markdown Syntax (with included Component)
- E-mail
- Maximum Length
- Toggle on/off HTML5 Input (type=”email”)
- Phone Number
- Format / International (ie: +1 123-123-1234)
- Enable / Disable Extensions
- Toggle on/off HTML5 Input (type=”tel”)
- Website
- Format (ie: with or without the www, include http:// etc)
- Maximum Length
- Toggle on/off HTML5 Input (type=”url”)
- Password
- Minimum Length
- Maximum Length
- Plain Text
- Paragraph Text
- Plain Text
- Allow Shortcode
- Allow HTML
- WYSIWYG
- TinyMCE
- CLEditor
- Allowed HTML Tags
- Allow Markdown Syntax (with included Component)
- Plain Text
- Permalink (url-friendly)
- Color Picker (Using the default WP color picker, Farbtastic)
- File Upload
- Single Select
- Plupload
- Attachments (WP native UI)
- Multiselect
- Plupload
- Attachments (WP native UI)
- Limit # of Files
- Restrict File Size
- Restrict File Type (image files, video files, or custom list of extensions)
- Excluded Image Sizes (for images, excluded from auto-resizing)
- Single Select
- Relationship
- Related To
- Custom List (line separated)
- Other Pods
- Post Types
- Taxonomies
- Users
- Comments
- Single Select
- Dropdown
- Radio
- Autocomplete
- Multiselect
- Multiselect
- Checkboxes
- Autocomplete
- Related To
- Date / Time
- Advanced Options
- CSS Class Name
- Default value
- Choose to dynamically populate value from query
- Access level permissions (only let admins or editors edit a field)
- Custom RegEx validation rules and messages
- Set Maximum Length for field (for strings and numbers)
- New Field Type options built in (no more input helpers for most common input types!)
- New grouping fields API on the Add/Edit forms for Post Types, Taxonomies, Media, Users, Comments, and Custom Content Types (UI coming in 2.1)
- New Shortcode popup integration with TinyMCE editor (and provide one-off templates within the shortcode itself!
- List items
- Show detail of an item
- Show a field from an item
- New Widgets (and provide one-off templates within the widget itself!)
- List items
- Show detail of an item
- Show a field from an item
- New Form UI
- New Attachments option available for File Uploads allows you to click “Attach” and select media items from the normal built-in WP Media Library pop-up
- New Components allow additional functionality to be enabled but not loaded if you don’t want/need them
- Gravity Forms Integration
- Map a Gravity Form’s fields over into a Pod of any type (so many combinations!) to save automatically when the form is processed
- (Disclosure: The above link is an affiliate link that pays the Pods Foundation if you make a purchase, any funds will go towards additional development of our Gravity Forms integration, please use it!)
- Roles and Capabilities
- Add / Edit Roles (Administrator, Editor, etc..)
- Add / Edit Capabilities for each Role
- Markdown Syntax for Paragraph Text fields
- Migrate: Import from Custom Post Type UI
- Import Custom Post Types and Taxonomies created by the Custom Post Type UI plugin
- Import them all, or choose a few
- Optionally cleanup the Custom Post Type UI options when done, removing the imported objects from it’s control
- Gravity Forms Integration
- Basic WPML Integration (Disclosure: This link is an affiliate link that pays the Pods Foundation if you make a purchase, any funds will go towards additional development of our WPML integration, please use it!)
- Requires at least WordPress 3.4 and is tested against WordPress 3.4 and 3.5 releases