In order to prevent the possibility of untrusted user passing potentially malicious data into the WordPress database, recent versions of Pods introduced several constants, which by default disable potentially dangerous usage. Some of these usages are common usage. When they are only available to trusted users they may be perfectly fine to use. This post […]
View PostWP 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 […]
View PostNew Tutorial Section Design & Tutorial About Tutorial Section Design

When we created the tutorials section of our site last year, we were using Pods to solve a problem. Creating a custom post type for tutorials, allowed us to organize all of the tutorials in one place on our site. But we created a new problem–there were too many tutorials. So, today we are happy […]
View PostPods 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. […]
View Post code generation, developers, new features, new team members, progress updates, support, upcoming releases, updatesPods 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/
View PostNext 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: http://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.
View Post chat, developersDon’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 […]
View Post attachments, guid, images, migration, Pods Tutorials, urlNew Site, Pods 2.4 in the works, and what’s next?
Hello everybody! It’s been a long, long, long time since I’ve posted on our blog. Part of the reason is I’ve been so busy working on cool projects and on the Pods GitHub that I haven’t really had the time to keep up this blog. My wife and I also recently welcomed our second daughter […]
View Post contributors, new site, progress updates, site updatesHey 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 http://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 […]
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