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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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Pods Doc Team Meeting #2 Wrap-Up

We had our second meeting of the Pods Doc Team last week. A brief wrap-up is below and the full transcript is also available. Pods Project Update We started the meeting with an update on Pods from our lead developer Scott K. Clark. Scott talked about Pods 2.3.19, which includes new filters, and performance improvements …

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Pods Doc Team Meeting 1 Wrap-Up and Planning For Meeting 2

Today we had the first meeting of the Pods Doc Team. We had five community volunteers along with myself, and our lead developer Scott. During this basic planning meeting we introduced ourselves, went over goals for the group and brainstormed topics to cover for future #podsdocthursday events. Before our next meeting, which will be held …

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Join the Pods Docs Team

Since I began working as the community manager for Pods last August I’ve been focused on improving the documentation and other educational materials available for Pods. We’ve created a new tutorials section full of tutorials I wrote as well as those I curated from the community. I’ve also added and expanded doc pages and created …

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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.