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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!

New Pods 2.0 Webinar at WebDesign.com

There’s a Pods 2.0 Webinar tomorrow morning at 10am CDT over at WebDesign.com, get 40% off the membership and register with the code WDAUTUMN12 I’ll personally be there to help answer any questions you have, and Benjamin from WD will be leading the webinar to help explain everything. Come join us! Go to WebDesign.com and …

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New Comparisons added to our Documentation

We’ve spent a great deal of time documenting the differences between Content Types and based on our user feedback — we’ve compiled some very helpful comparisons for you to reference. Compare Content Types Compare Meta vs Table Storage Compare WP_Query, WP_*_Query, and Pods Unified Theming Compare Functionality in Pods 1.x to Pods 2.0 If you …

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Pods 2.0 has arrived!

Background The Pods Framework has been around since late 2008. Planning, design, development, and testing started in 2010 for Pods 2.0 leading to an Alpha release on January 2nd, 2012. Beta was released on August 12th, 2012. Now Pods 2.0 has finally arrived, as of September 21st, 2012! After our soft launch, we’ve been working …

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Pods 1.14.4: Bug fixes and tweaks

Release Notes Security Update Reminder: As of Pods 1.12+, AJAX API calls all utilize _wpnonce hashes, update your customized publicForm / input helper code AJAX (api.php and misc.php expect `wp_create_nonce(‘pods-‘ . $action)` usage) Note: Oh hey, Pods 2.0 is coming out September 21st! Please help us continue to test the beta this week: http://dev.podsframework.org/tag/pods2/ Changed: …

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Pods 2.0 impact on WordPress core

I was looking through some filters I’ve been enjoying utilizing in Pods 2.0 lately, and remembered that I was the one who ticketed and patched them in! Check out how Pods 2.0 has effected WordPress during it’s development here: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/15983 http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/16017 http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/16019 http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/16056 http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/16059 http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/16106 http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/16286 http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/21831 http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/21837 http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15249 http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15250 http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21614 (committed) http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21676 During testing, …

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