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Pods 1.9.6: Security Update / New Features / Bug Fixes

Release Notes Security Update: New security settings section in the Pods >> Setup >> Settings tab to restrict access to the File Browser / Uploader used in publicForm — adjust the settings to fit your site if you experience any problems with your File Uploader Changed: PICK Field Multi-select saving now uses data-value=”…” instead of …

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DB Optimizations

I’m reviewing some further DB optimizations we can do in Pods 2.0 to increase performance with less JOINs for relationships as well as more abilities long-term for how we use findRecords (think company.industry.name = “Wholesale” type of stuff). Feel free to suggest any ideas you might have and we can discuss further. So far, I’ve …

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Subscribing to the Dev Blog via RSS

It’s pretty easy, it’s how I keep up to date when this site isn’t open in one of my browser tabs 🙂 Here’s the two URLs you’ll want to watch: New Posts: https://pods.io/feed/ New Comments: https://pods.io/comments/feed/ You might also want to subscribe to our Twitter updates if you don’t have us in your direct view …

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Spoke with Amir from WPML org and we…

Spoke with Amir from WPML.org and we decided once we get 2.0 to the testing phase they are going to have their developer start working on an ‘integration’ plugin which sits in-between WPML and Pods. I’ll assist their developer in getting things working, understanding our code, and adding any filters / actions that 2.0 might …

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Getting the Current Full URL of any page in Pods 1.9.6

Pods 1.9.6 isn’t out yet, we’re waiting on the fully working TinyMCE API to be ready, but once it is, we’ve added a new function called get_current_url() You can use get_current_url() to get the full URL including the protocol, current hostname, and URI. This differs from just using $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’] because it’s absolute. You can use …

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Naming Pod Templates and Pod Helpers with a Slash and why it makes sense

When things first started out with Pods, the naming conventions for Pod Templates and Pod Helpers were pretty much a free-for-all. Examples of names would be like: event_list (template) event_detail (template) event_save (pre-save helper) image_full (display helper) image_thumb (display helper) subscriber_get_info (display helper – advanced) etc… But, now that your sites are becoming more complex, …

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Pods Foundation

As some of you may have known from the dev blog last month, Pods now has a foundation behind it! Pods Foundation, Inc is a non-profit, charitable organization which was incorporated last month to further the mission of the Pods open source project. What’s changing? Not really much, just all financial operations will go through …

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