What is Pods?

WordPress Content Types and Fields

WordPress is all about creating content. It comes bundled with Posts and Pages, which you can organise using the Categories and Tags taxonomies. It’s also got post meta fields which you can use to append data to your content – author, date, and custom fields, for example.

But what if you want more than the WordPress defaults? After all, you may require more types of content than simply Posts and Pages. Categories and Tags might not cover all the ways in which you wish to classify your content. You may wish to append your content with more metadata than WordPress provides for.

How Pods Helps You

With WordPress, it’s possible to create Custom Content Types and Custom Fields. Usually this involves writing the PHP that you need. With Pods, you can create all of the Custom Content Types and Custom Fields that you need from within the WordPress Admin Screens. A WordPress website with Pods enabled is much more powerful and flexible than a WordPress website on its own.

You can also use Pods to extend your current content types. Perhaps you want to add some taxonomies to your Pages – WordPress doesn’t have any taxonomies active for Pages by default. Or you could add more Custom Fields to your Posts and output that data with your theme.

How it Works

Pods has an intuitive admin interface. You can choose whether you wish to create a new content type or extend an existing content type:

a screenshot of the Pods admin interface showing the Create New and Extend Existing options

You can create Custom Post Types:

a screenshot of the create a new content type box - custom post type is selected in the dropdown. The taxonomy has the plural label books and the singular label book

Custom Taxonomies:

a screenshot of the create a new content type box - custom taxonomy is selected in the dropdown. The taxonomy has the plural label genres and the singular label genre

You can create Custom Fields that are attached to your Post Types and Taxonomies:

a screenshot of the manage fields options - three custom fields relating to books have been created. These are Number of Pages, Year of Publication, and Cover Photo

If you’re a developer, you may also wish to check out Advanced Content Type. These are content types that are created in their own database table, much like Nodes and CCK in Drupal.

a screenshot of the create a new content type box - advanced content type is selected in the dropdown. The content type has the plural label students and the singular label student

If all of these terms are unfamiliar to you then you can use this guide to learn more about the different types of content that you can create and what you can do with them. Once you’ve read through these short articles you’ll be ready to start building your Pods website!

Other Helpful Documentation on Learning About Pods

Planning Your Custom Content Types

If you’re regularly building different types of websites, you may reach a point when the default WordPress Content Types are no longer sufficient for your projects. That’s when you need to get started using Custom Content Types on your website. Pods gives you the functionality to build Content Types, but you need to put thought and …

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Planning Your Solution with Pods

What do you mean by Solution as opposed to my Data Structure? Before you dig too deeply into what kind of structure you might need, you need to think about what Content you’re going to be managing on your Web Application and how that content is going to be used by your Users and your …

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What are Advanced Content Types?

ContentsBackgroundEnter Advanced Content TypesWhen to Use Advanced Content Types Background In order to understand Advanced Content Types, it helps to understand a little bit about how WordPress works. WordPress comprises PHP andMySQL. MySQL is the database that stores all of your website’s information, and PHP is the code allows for interaction between the web browser …

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What are Custom Fields?

Custom Fields are metaboxes that are used to input metadata that is related to your post. When you add a new post in WordPress, you’ll see these draggable boxes which are used for to store information about your post. Examples are author and excerpt. Another is custom fields. If you can’t see custom fields, click …

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What are Custom Post Types?

Learn about Custom Post Types in WordPress and how Pods makes them easier to work with.

What are Custom Taxonomies?

Taxonomies are used to Group and Filter content across multiple content types.

What are Extended Post Types?

Extending another Object with Pods gives you access to add fields to WordPress Objects (Users, Media, Posts & Pages) or Post Types or Taxonomies created by other plugins.

What is a Custom Settings Page?