Jim True, Author at Pods Framework

Announcing our First Gold Partner: OptinMonster

February 2, 2016 by Jim True

We’re very happy to announce our very first Gold Friend at Friends of Pods: OptinMonster. They’re also offering a great perk for our Friends of Pods users, 20% off any plan at their website. That’s quite a significant savings, especially at the Pro level. If you’ve not checked out OptinMonster, yet, it’s a very versatile popup email and lead generating plugin that can boost your email conversions by a significant amount. With A/B testing built in, integrations with ALL the major email list managers and some really smart user-sensitive technology baked in, it’s worth checking out.

Pods 2.6: Rest API & Taxonomy Term Meta Support

December 14, 2015 by Jim True

Pods 2.6 Release: REST API & Term Meta Support

We’re very happy to announce a new point release for Pods: 2.6. Some of you may have been following the prominence of REST API coming in WordPress. It was even a rather large announcement at Matt Mullenwegg’s State of the Word address at WordCamp US 2015. We’re very happy to announce that we’ve integrated REST API support …

Pods 2.5.4 Maintenance Release

September 17, 2015August 10, 2015 by Jim True

We have released another point release to the Pods 2.x branch. This particular patch now increases our Unit Test coverage by more than a 1000 tests. (2.5.3: 1,873 tests, 13,542 assertions to 2.5.4: 2,831 tests, 16,233 assertions). Most of the unit tests were primarily focused on our coverage for our find() class, which is the workhorse …

Pods 2.5.3 Maintenance Release and Pods 3.0 Status Update

September 17, 2015June 11, 2015 by Jim True

Today we are releasing Pods 2.5.3 maintenance release, including multiple bug fixes; Since it fixes some common bugs we’ve had reported over and over, we recommend all sites be updated to this release before submitting new issues to our forums or GitHub. Some of the bugs corrected in this release dealt with `orderby` and Advanced Content Types …

PodsCast #006: Pods Display Tools – Conductor & Caldera Easy Pods

September 17, 2015May 14, 2015 by Jim True

This week we are talking about two plugins that can help you create Pods-based sites using the WordPress admin UI — Conductor and Caldera Easy Pods. Conductor’s developer Matt Medeiros will be our guest as we dive into two great options that could help users of any level create great sites with Pods faster. This is a live …

PodsCast #005: Templates, Shortcodes & Widgets – Displaying Data in Pods Pt 3

September 17, 2015May 3, 2015 by Jim True

In the third part of this series, we move onto Pods Templates using Magic Tags to display your Pods Data in your Themes. We will discuss the different conditional tags that give you flexibility in the display of your data and how to use Shortcodes within your theme to tailor the display of data on …

PodsCast #004: Pods’ify My Theme! Displaying Data in Pods Pt 2

February 25, 2016April 16, 2015 by Jim True

We’ll continue where we left off from the prior PodsCast by digging deeper into the Pods class functions within your theme to show your Pods Data. Using live code examples, we’ll also show how to do common things with your Pods data like Pagination, Image & Media handling, Relationships and Taxonomy. This is a live …

PodsCast #003: Pods’ify My Theme! Displaying Data in Pods Pt 1

September 17, 2015April 3, 2015 by Jim True

You’ve created all these great Pods that connect to each other, now what? You need them in your theme! This first part of a series on Displaying Pods Data gives you the foundational skills to understand how WordPress theme’ing works and how you can display all your Pods data using the Pods API. This is …

Announcing Pods Integration with CMB2 for Pods 3.0

September 17, 2015February 12, 2015 by Jim True

If you’ve been following recent news in the land of Metadata and Custom Fields, you know that Justin Sternberg over at WebDevStudios recently announced their official release of CMB2 as a replacement for the old Custom Metaboxes and Fields, commonly referred to as CMB. The Pods team has been anxiously awaiting their formal announcement so we could let …