Pods Update: July 2014

As hopefully, all of you know, since our last update we discovered, fixed and disclosed a major security issue. We’d like to thank everyone who helped us get the word out, including Post Sta.us, WPTavern, WPEngine, GoDaddy and MediaTemple. Also, we’d like to thank everyone who has been so supportive of us during this process. The overwhelmingly positive …

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Security Update: Pods 2.4.2

Today we released Pods 2.4.2, which is an important security update after a security issue concerning Pods Forms was brought to our attention by a Pods user today. We recommend all Pods 2.x installations be updated to Pods 2.4.2 to fix a noncing issue with form saving. You can download this update via the plugin updater …

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Three New Releases From Pods

Today we are releasing an update to Pods, version 2.4.1, an update to the Pods add-on plugin Pods Frontier Auto Template, version 1.1 and releasing a new add-on plugin Pods AJAX Views. You can download each of them from WordPress.org today. As always, these plugins are offered at no cost, and under the terms of …

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What’s New From Pods- June 2014

Here at Pods, we’ve been hard at work on Pods 3.0, as well as improving our Pods plugins and working on an exciting new way to document Pods or any WordPress plugin. We’d like to tell you about some updates to our documentation, our add-on plugins, including an exciting new one, and let you know about the latest improvements to Pods itself.
This is the first of what will be regular bi-weekly updates from Pods. We’ll be letting you know about updates to Pods, Pods add-on plugins, tutorials and documentation as well as highlighting cool sites built with Pods and cool tips for using Pods. If you’d like to get these updates in your email you can sign up here.

Introducing Pods JSON API

Today we released a beta version of a plugin that implements the WordPress REST API plugin WP-API for Pods. Our new plugin, PODS JSON API adds new end points that allow access to various methods in the Pods and Pods API classes when using WP-API. This plugin may be merged into Pods itself in the future …

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Introducing Pods Frontier Auto Templates

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Update:This post was updated on Monday May 19th to reflect changes made in version 0.2.0. Pods Frontier Auto Templates is a new Pods plugin for automatic output of Pods Templates. This new plugin, the first created with our new Pods Plugin starter plugin, allows you to easily set which Pods Template is used to display …

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Introducing Pods Alternative Cache

Along with today’s release of Pods 2.4 we are also happy to introduce you to Pods Alternative Cache, or new caching engine for Pods. Pods Alternative Cache is a file-based or database-based caching solution for hosts that have limitations on object caching. Pods Alternative Cache provides optimal performance with Pods sites on hosts with no object …

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What’s New In Pods 2.4

Pods 2.4 started out as 2.3.19, a simple update with just a few bug fixes. Instead, over 100 commits later, 2.4 arrives today full of new features, as well as performance and UI improvements as well as compatibility with a new caching plugin. Also we have added auto-complete capabilities to the Pods Template editor for …

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WP Engine “LONG QUERY” MySQL Error Logs Explained

When using Pods on a site that is hosted on WP Engine, you may recently have begun to see “Long Query” errors in your site error logs, due to a recent update to their platform.  This error is generated by any MySQL query that is longer than 1,024 characters. While Pods does, in at least one …

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