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Pods project status update

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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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Hey stranger Where have we been We’ve been…

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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!

Pods core table structure differences between Pods 1.x, Pods 2.0 Alpha, and Pods 2.0 Alpha 32

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Pods 1.x You may not have been aware of this, but Pods 1.x installs custom tables to store it’s information in a way that’s usually standard for standalone PHP projects. Here’s the table list we had in Pods 1.x, 7 core tables in all: wp_pod – This table was used to store an index of …

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Introducing the new Pods 2.0 Upgrade screens

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Upgrading Pods to new versions has previously been a silent background process. Things were done, you weren’t given substantial information in case of an error, and there was no UI to guide you through the process. No more! Our new Pods 2.0 Upgrade screens will guide you through upgrading from Pods 1.x to Pods 2.0, …

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Upping the requirements for Pods 2.0 to WP…

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Upping the requirements for Pods 2.0 to WP 3.4, it only makes sense that our next awesome version uses the latest and greatest, as support for previous versions would be something of a patchwork quilt with all the actions/filters/functions being unavailable, giving users a suboptimal experience with a reduced functionality plugin. It also will help reduce support issues!

Pushing our latest patches in and updating to Pods 2.0 Alpha 14 today. Prepping features for the beta testing period about to hit in a couple of weeks.

Pods 2.0 Alpha 11 is out if you’re…

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Pods 2.0 Alpha 11 is out, if you’re wondering where all the other alpha versions went, they were here and gone in a flash as I’ve been committing fixes and features like crazy this weekend!

Latest big ticket item that @mpvanwinkle and I have been working on since this past Fall has been the Meta box integration for Post Types, Taxonomies, Media, Users, and Comments. In the latest alpha, we’ve now got integration into each one of those forms (both add and edit!). It’s dynamic, so any field you create for your pods that are integrated with those objects will appear in the corresponding object’s forms. Storage is meta only right now, working on getting further support for the Pods table-based storage for each of the objects.

Form UI work will be progressing further this week as @mikedamage will be working on it heavily. We’ll be working on getting that done and pushed into an upcoming 2.0 alpha for both admin and front (theme-side) forms.

Get in on the alpha today and check it all out, provide feedback, and of course test 😉

Pods 2.0 Alpha Testing