Grow Beyond Posts & Pages: Introduction to the Pods Framework

okay so now we're going to talk about growing beyond posts and pages it's an introduction to the pods framework a lot of the content development framework for WordPress I am the support lead and community manager for the pods framework that is their website and the one below it is my website we'll be coming back in this line at the very end so we don't worry about it right okay our story starts tonight with you the wordpress developer well now your awareness about for I don't even see or not I had it stickers and glasses with a goatee it's got a handful of websites under your belt you've got a gym with salon and amusing you've been doing basically giving them a blog a landing page maybe an about page that sort of thing and in a contact form and it's been working right for you and then all of a sudden the jet contacts you and it just said told you that their big belt franchise they have now opened up gyms across the entire United States and they need you to track all the different locations and all the trainers at all those locations and all the classes they offer at all those locations the salon has expanded into spa services and all of a sudden they've got several stylist they've got several pedicures two manicurist and everything else and they want to put up the services menu on their website and then which is able to track all the different staff members that do all those particular different services it's going to be part of these all the museum added a local artists program and they now want artist gallery pages you know very specific like artist bio pages elect entire dealers and that artists work and then you have an advanced color that they want to add it and they want to be able to show you know links from they've been telling her to the artist but that you don't share that and they've got a whole list of things they want you to do so of course you could start throwing plugins or themes of the problem and I know you guys probably know this at least once or twice where someone asks you about a website you go start hunting oh let me find the best this danger it is only fine like that that's looking to the point color-blocking or let me find this thing for that or maybe not other day but you've already designed your thing you've got a very good theme on each one of these purple people's websites so you like the way the site looks you start throwing plugins and beams at it all of a sudden you've got to retrain your users you know they're used to working on the back end of WordPress and with all these different plugin they're going to have like a whole other thing thrown in there and they're going to be a little confused or you're going to have to completely overhaul their site they get these plugins to work with it you could try managing the whole thing with pages and that would be like an is website up there and your guys so they've given you kind of like a wireframe of like a staff list and they want the schedule of classes and the mail list of classes and you could actually like going in pages and create that you know output and make it look the way you want but then you have another wonderful problem with life well that staff person I'm going to copy their information over here is a schedule and you can do the classes of oh crap I've had to go from the classes there that's fine some of your copying pasting content all over the parts it's a mess and you're going to make mistakes what if this was much easier what if you could take a contact add them to a staff member and have their information that you just plugged in automatically go to the staff list of schedule in the classes and be maintained perfectly well pods to the rescue and one of you the Batman pink Lebanon of it you can manage all your content in one place and are positive in screen you can actually create your different post types you can create an extent and add fields to any content custom post types users comments custom taxonomies menus WooCommerce you can post pages any other plug-in or taxonomy you can add stuff to it you can use relationships to connect anything so you have your staff a retainer to the same class on Mondays that's three different types of content but it's all connected you can also display content in your theme without pillars this is going to be a little bit but this is from our press ctrl-a website lists all of our different organizers they want meet up stay actually for managing this page this little bit here is actually output from this ignore the befores and the ejz stuff and just look at it the sunday you ever list with a list item with a lake a title and another link and has it it's basically a tiny little icon sentence this works in short codes in widgets and auto template yes this is about coded HTML and CSS but I at least expect everybody to know how to do that you know that's one of the kind of favor but there's not PHP involved but you should know how to do HTML and CSS the pods process is that we plan our content we created we populated in the backend and then we prototype it with pods templates and we're going to start with planning so we're going to start with your content needs my going to fast okay we have to location list kind of like a wireframe this is one of your gems at that location see got the gel with location of some number email address and legend ears there's a staff list to show do but the trainer there even their email address locations are at the phone number etc you can see right off the bat that that information is excellent over here and that information is there you have to think about your time that your your reusable content and data you're taking that content framework that you're building up that content strategy that wireframe and you're starting to look at an actual usable data and that's what we're doing here is we're taking that a card and we're going to littles what I need to track about all the locations I need to track city state that there's some email address to trainers for the staff I need to track the name the email address the class is taught in the gym location I don't have to track those um number here because it comes from here and you can kind of see where the connections that that trainer is going to staff that location is connected up there so these are custom post types and custom fields yes a part of WordPress we're actually creating a locations post type and a staff post type all of this are custom fields they basically go across you that like locations and those fields to that location staff and that location you can actually do in repeat the email address because this table of locations belongs any month along to locations that email belongs is hey come sign up for what our custom post types well if you've been working in WordPress and you've been working in pages and posts you've been working in post types all along here were little thing here if you've ever seen on the admin at the top of the page it's got a little question mark so C equals 333 that shows you the actual ID number of that particular post your host hype for hostess pose your post doctor page is page your post doctor media is attachment and for minions is an app Miniland and this is actual WordPress codex the websites I give me giving you a link there you guys can read up more about what those are that way I'm not going to go terribly deep in the detail on it right but I want to show you the way that you can register post up to WordPress there's a lot of lovely code I'm going to only point out a couple of things locations locations location and with slug locations and where we're actually ready to string it and over here any meta somewhere down here way down here street address so this is a complicated way to do it and there's two little wings there at the bottom for how to do this this is the pods way we're going to add any pod locations and we're going to add a little bot sugar dress really simple and that's knowing you a demo and shouldn't you how simple it is okay let's see so we had sorry switch my head back and forth a little bit here okay yeah I'm back okay alright so we have our demo website positive the only thing installed I believe you I didn't the only thing installed we're going to go down to the pod admin I do have something in there Depa services we're going to actually add staff members so we click add new create new and select custom post type which is the default a singular staff member would be staff member and plural would be staff also ready to pray be there no I always do this because I like to know what the actual times types going to be called but that would automatically be filled in for you when I like overriding it go in the plural or sanur I think it's filling from the singular hey sequence light okay so now we've actually created this post type you can actually see it right there in the menu to the left can you guys see that probably not great let me I can't move that screen unfortunately but it's right here okay so now we're going to actually add a field to it very straightforward stuff we were creep tracking their phone number I think wasn't actually the salon staff so we don't really care about their phone number honestly to the salon staff we don't have to store much yeah we don't actually what I'll add some elements on them anyway just you can see one we can leave it at flame text field you have the ability to add quite a few different kinds of fields we've got text fields website phone email password paragraphs multiple different versions the things their date/time Phil bake bake or time fields plain numbers currency and a whole bunch of other fun stuff when we leave that on as a phone okay and save that field when do a couple of the little quick little housekeeping stuff here though to make sure this works for us later on under here the admin you want to go poop I don't like that strange little pushpin thing I'd rather use a better icon for that so we're going to come over here to the - icons page and get about that we're going to get them now okay that link is actually provided down here under menu icon so when I want to put him the six location one right Iranian house because he's way too far okay and that's pretty much it like you can go into now right now into the staff members and start adding people we can go which entry we have visited effect to when you're creating post types of your own content use as much as possible that WordPress already gives you we're crap out of the bat gives you a I took the title for your post it gives you this wonderful editor so there's no reason to replace it if you notice though look kind of each an image I have anything else let me go add those so I have like my little field there for phone number so I'll go ahead and take that one in but I like to put a thanks to my post so let's go back into edit Pines you know forgot one little bit of housekeeping and that's an advanced option down on the very bottom we get title an editor we can have featured image and let's pretty much it probably going to add the archive to just fill this actually so now if I go back in I should have a face block and we have a picture handy them so we're just going to live without that for a while let's see so staff Jerry and now we have a space for the featured image and I can add Elaine very quick cool you didn't know you worked at the salon did you now okay so that's how easy it is to basically add post type and you look your theme automatically picks up the name doesn't give anything else if I added her picture it would pick up the picture and if I added her content or bio it would have actually probably shown up in there as well I can also go to staff and WordPress automatically shows the staff members the archives the single detail automatically shows up from WordPress when you add those types so that's the biggest part of your work actually done we've now planned pods they're populated so now we're gonna go back to the compliance okay and we change one else again quick change get good okay maybe so now we're going to identify our connections between our data so we our locations page of our staff page we know that our relationships are designed to prevent double entry so like if you you guys are working spreadsheet several times okay when you're entering data that you want to like put into a into a database which is kind of what we're doing you want to track a little information so it makes it easier to type in so we've got you know meeting with email address Betty Rubble her email address bar near Oakland Universal tragedies calling us Jim BIA I don't know the funds that the funds that will process it eager crossed it they've got the location which you notice that we're repeating Hawaii and Alaska and underneath the classes repeating span span rumba rumba rock boy got their own agenda so this is a an efficient way to store the day we would not want to store location and classes as a textfield inside that particular post because we would be repeating it all the time and would make mistakes so this is when you think along the lines of you're connected fields some ones that actually are using the same data are the relationships so in this case and locations trainers is the one that actually connects over here exactly and classes taught the next two classes instructor the next is that Jim location connects to trainers a location can have multiple trainers trainers can have multiple classes we talking about this in relationship connection database in the web mode all really worried about it the relationship appeals in a database that means we have one staff working at multiple locations sorry multiple locations ones that are ones done at a location both of the pages per staff so basically when you're creating with this relationship field we're actually created at a multiple select at this location I am selecting multiple staff members do they make sense active when I'm entering the staff member I'm only going to be able to select one attention because they've got a single connection that they can't work in most places they can work at one when you're looking at the classes same type of thing the staff member can do small classes so it's the multiple direction down here and let the class that we be taught I want to order okay demoing relationship field we're going to take what we've already done and expand on okay once again dented oh okay let's go back into our dashboard what you're going to see is that I've actually already added services I just haven't actually done anything with it so I'm going to start there then the salon each staff member can do multiple services and each service can be done by multiple staff members so this is going to be a mini to many relationship that makes them test okay all right so let's add in services click view we've already added price but one thing I didn't do on here well I guess a little bit doesn't matter everyone was going to say I could get rid of the bio box or live the editor box but I don't need to so we're going to add a field we're going to call this related staff members and I tend to do this actually what I call it related staff make it somewhere these are going to be the staff members that actually do this service perform the service so we're going to go down to select a relationship field which is way down here at the bottom and we're going to relate it to Stanford you guys see that up here do I need to zoom up more I can make it a little bigger angle that little better yeah okay we kind of lives the menu on the left but I can deal with that if you guys can so we're going to connect the fifth field two staff members and we're going to go under additional options since we want to make it multiple so if there's multiple stat numbers and then I'm going to change this to this is a new field type that is coming at our new version of pods due out and about two weeks publicity it's going to allow us to do some pretty amazing things and that's pretty much it multiple select Liske we're going to save this one sorry I didn't save it in the right place oh damn here save and I went green save fun okay and I'm going to go into stat numbers I need to make one module there because I can't see a native there okay and I'm going to add a relationship field from staff to services this making sense guys so far it'll make more sense when we go into the interface on the backend and notice when I selected the services it actually recognized the fact that I have a connected field from the other direction and it's giving me the option to make this bi-directional anytime you've got a connection between two tables you actually want to make it bi-directional you want to activate that particular connection because what's going to happen on the backend is every single time you add a staff member from a services page it's automatically going to connect that though that service to that staff member so like if you had a book it's going to automatically net the author if you add an author and a tab up to that author it's automatically going to connect that as well and this will make more sense when I go into the UI for it so we will do multiple select list view save fievel's unsaved pod okay so I haven't added any services yet but we have Elaine and Jim are available for services so we're going to do any standard haircut and we're going to go down we'll give it a price on 25 sounds good yeah let's see all right there she is but you know what we just hired Chris Mike mother so what's that him real fast I'm not following your last name right Chris I before E except after C okay got it when his phone number is pipeline wonderful employer so when we save him he has now been added as another person who gets haircut a new haircut unable to hear it so that wouldn't make any sense and if I now go into our staff members over here Chris has been added notices automatically there you didn't have to do any work at all and if I look at him see his haircuts and Alain will also have that in there so now Chris also does goatee trimming it's a really specialized practice this is chief I need to put the dollar sign in okay there I feel that is like currency yes that is a crank you feel okay yeah okay I need to worry about that one either oh yes I do because I oh I forgot I'm inside this little window that says services performed add new this is still kind of new to me I'm like we're just adding this was positive f7 this little amazing back and forth thing interface here and it's I love it but I'm still getting used to you okay so I think I'm the only one who doesn't actually do anything right now so yeah I'm not doing anything I need to add a service so we're going to call this one head shaving why not let it extend 50 ok so we have now created a linked three services three staff members and they're all connected it's pretty damn impressive so let's go back to our is it making sense to you guys okay all right back to here join elf swap again okay now we're actually to talk about the prototyping side of this if you treat your content like a mail merge have you guys ever done members we're getting like a spreadsheet of like a bunch of people's addresses and names if you want to push them into an envelope or if you like a word document you've done that contract before that's what we're going to do here we're going to take this information and merge it into this little thing like constructor metrics field instructor name merge she'll be military the whole bit another mail merge template this is going to be push through the value create four separate little cups or something of that nature well we're actually creating this with positive length of magic tag so what I've done is I change the field this is our most title from WordPress for our little guide here the big email address that I've added we're going back to the gym now we're not in the salon in this little strange format the curly braces the a kind of style and the curly braces at nineteen elevator these are called magic tags this basically connects to this when it goes through us and if we take that and replace that little thing with this when you're looking at Jim's post does that make sense I'm looking for dead stairs okay we're going to call one of these custom post types you guys work with short codes right okay we're going to call this little custom jump like that when we just broke up with short code so we still have this over here for your information there's our positive like a little that we created our shortcut is pop my maple spiders and that's coming from the post type trainers some trainers one min equals minus one I want to show an entire list of everything so that's why we don't limit evil -1 what's our time like night put theirs on a time what's our tower time all right good for you oh cool thank you so now I've done is I created the shortcut and I'm closing it off at the other end of this a little slash of a positive putting all the information between this thing in between here is called a custom simply because it actually templated in between the PI short thing you'll run across this sometimes you when your permit laughing and you're testing to see if something is going to work or not you can very quickly when you're on WordPress page just start typing create a little starting short kind of the end of shortcuts and fields in between and then publish and look at the page and it will show you do they work and we're going to show it back in a minute or we'll go in here you also have the option creating a positive plate that's saved in the database and this is under deposit admin template in add new selected way you go to the title you can will come in editor screen and it allows you to kind of like create your HTML content block and that's how you need to think of these these are little content blocks to reuse throughout your team and they're to show your custom content the fields and stuff that you've added to the post types that WordPress doesn't show a lot of magic remember when we did the view staff and all that showed was their title it didn't show you the proper phone number or what service you should get or anything like that this is to make that show that make sense because you want to have the content that you've added as a custom you want it to show on the staff page you know if you want to show the address phone numbers and everything else you can also call positive little shorter that thing we just saved was the email header and you basically have cemetery the custom header in between like a slash top thing you just add a paddock here template equals email header the short codes are incredibly powerful I'm not going to go deep into detail of them tonight but if we want to do like a follow-up of one of these I'm happy to do it of conflict super fast prototyping with short codes we just did template okay there's also some special magic tag handling basically I've shown you this one your custom field is in the database the access that would like have some feel the rule curly brackets we have fun your relationship connection is a little different you have a related to deal so that would be like the related staff members and then you've got the field in the other pot so that means if you think along the lines you had a table over here that is services and I want to reach across and to staff so if I'm on services I've got related staff member so that's what would be actually going here and then there's a period and then over here I do post title to show gem true Elaine Chris Weidman if I wanted to show their phone number I would go dot phone number please straightforward WordPress content the actual content that editor box is called at post content the featured image is because thumbnail permalink which is when you're anywhere in the website and you don't want to have to like remember domain slash staff comes to whatever slug if you don't want to have to remember that permalink is what you want to use it's exactly equal to get underscore permalink from WordPress as a function we also have related field record promotes which means you put in the relationships in web related staff member permalink and it will give you the link to that post as opposed to the post for that you currently on so con that we're going to get we do yeah okay we also have the ability to do template tags and plot templates these or when primarily you use this kind of stuff when you want to show information from something that's connected to this post so like if this field display this else display that so it is field name comes in else content it and if I want to loop through all the related records so if I'm on like the services page on a service like a haircut and I want to show all people to do it I'm going to go each related field and then I want to show really the post title and get your phone number for that particular person and then each some example if that number I'm going to start my little on wordless each staff member Li post ro Li now I could make this a anchor reference you know add a hyperlink so give a a check permalink and then close it and then go post titling in night they wash it out on wide on cold exam we going to each read in the econ over list and they'll mess that down and then we ever get statement this will make more sense than where you play with it and all of this is documented on our website we have lots of examples we also have the ability to do this amazing vehicle of custom plays with Auto templates so remember we went to the you staff member and all shows the name didn't show anything else so let's say you created that wonderful little Plaza template and you wanted it to automatically show on all the staff members pages so I go into the single staff members and I love the Christmas page I don't want to have to add a shortcode to show that stuff I don't want to have to add a shortcode to neat to the latest page to show that stuff where to my favorite show that stuff I want that to happen automatically so on your WordPress paying when your theme is actually going to the loop it goes to the little thing it offers the content we're at that the content to output the audio template even before or after the content I send to like this for me the content automatically displayed by the theme and I could show you that on this next and I'll make sure we add something in the levels five a box of surveys show that but the contents automatically display so I will just want to show my custom content so I'm going to output my little template bag after the content content and that's pretty much it these are automatically populated for you this one if you'd only have one template will also be automatically populated for you this is a special circumstance you want to execute this outside of the loop you can click that is not highly recommended okay and do a demo now prototyping with pods templates sent along so let's start with that one that we did with shortcode we're going to go into pages and you okay now I do have a wizard here which I could use so might as well going to display a list multiple pods items and we'll install the staff members and I'm going to use a custom template so that thing I just told you about I'm doing a list item do you guys know what I'm doing when I'm doing this HTML stuff do you follow yeah I'm saying has not good okay I'm very happy because I'm not teaching your HTML I'm not teaching it CMS are CSS you should now at least this if you're going to be working in WordPress so in this case I'm going to actually showing any specific information Oh Leslie yeah that's good okay so we got permalink in first title and we're going to do minus one and that's pretty Pettit up enough and it's created yep it's created our custom template for us you can have five name staff limit equals minus one this little blocker here is the custom template and it ends itself little slash pods we publish this and view it look we suddenly have that's that list that shows in creates that kristin is delaying the gym stuff so automatically we've got the ability to do Quick Links now let's kick it up a notch ten plates I'm going to add one I'm going to call this staff detail when I select my staff member over here is my reference one thing that does over here is automatically gives you kind of like a field reference for all the connections from staff to related to earth and everything else so come help them oh my gosh service is performing very very end it so first off you know we have an email address I think now a phone number my bed it actually will help you finish it automatically for you I want to focus and it did because I don't like not like that now what I'd like to do is show the related services that this staff members performing so I'm going to do if the next deck related services then the only one that doesn't automatically fill that sample service is performed that sounds disgusting no laughter oh my gosh daddy's room ever okay so you know we want an unordered list we're going to call it different classes services and this is a Rondo use kind of be semantic if you think of your your content as always being semantic and being indexed by Google and being read properly you want to be as drastic as possible it doesn't matter how you're actually going to output on the web like I may actually list these services side by side what I can do that with CSS I don't have to change anything in but when I outside it I want to be as semantic as possible so that's why I'm doing this little thing when I'm putting in an inside corner bird list I can target services and display that list item is a line block I can make it a table I could do whatever I want there so okay now I need to do the each services performed will close that box off okay I want to link to the service so I'm going to go to and I will list send them to the service you guys following so far look at it so within each those references are hang at your moving world yes so you don't have to be specific I don't have to prefix these with services for Porter because I'm inside in each limb for services can you still act the very thing that you are in yes and specifically by not up prefixing yes actually that would be a problem I see was talking about I wouldn't do it inside the each loop right yeah so you could if you actually called it from another if I wanted your added another puff template and call it a shortcode I could so yeah a little more complicated but fun off when we're done I've got a couple of websites I can show you where we kind of do some more pretty impressive stuff div style equals higher flows right see that's right and we're going to put in the price here I think it was the price is that services perform yes so boom goes off my list item and then I'm not going to worry about the each because I've actually yes I will I was it up with the else in here because we're nice performs little services and polish and this is staff detail so now we're going to do is go into edit pods and staff and that little screen I told you about Auto templates we're going to enable it for this and we're going to staff detail you'll put it almost look for the content and it's safe and now I go into our staff members with this stuff my custom content I have my phone number that I got a link to the standard haircut I've got to go see Emily prices this is Tom and just like that I can also yeah yeah I can I'm going to do an archive - why not one just to rub that way can you tell Dad that I love pods I have been working for them for next month will be three years now so I absolutely love them love them love them you want I love this product I love this product three years ago when it wasn't anywhere near this good so let's do staff detail and we'll do before and save so now if this theme actually handled on which color if the same handle archives and had a breadcrumb right there I could show all of that but let's do this we'll just call it staff I think we went to that page before and also look you have your entire staff list information I granted this isn't a very pretty theme it's a hideous thing but if also we have the ability to go customize you know like that thing let's change it to 2015 and watch I've changed the theme and all my content still there if you did this the typical way in WordPress you have to write a little single underscore staff dot PHP and it would be in your theme file and then also I'm going to be gone when you switch things and you be upset and angry so you don't have to worry about that and more because it automatically there and actually this thing looks pretty good for this I'm going to keep them so that you show this to Chris Whalen edge pit can we see the Chris Weidman fascia let's see that template code again sure this one more time yeah let me go backwards yeah okay I'll walk to that template again very quickly will we happen make sure it will go over for it seven we get it up thirty months but actually I think we're pretty much on good time right now so okay got a staff decal to see how we're going on the phone number we're going to see if he's got the related if you have any related content and I start like that over to list and then I go into each Lee and output just that home to mix what yes thank you no problem no problem okay so and I even do this for services to I can reverse the link one thing I do a lot is this particular block of content I pretty much this whole thing the if else if I do it all the time so I might as well just go ahead and create a service of detail that uses the same concept and I'm going to cut paste let turn some stuff around this will be staff services and honestly this whole thing down here the reference the template doesn't care what you've got down there so okay it doesn't matter the only thing that matters when you're using the template is what's actually over here in the little code box so related stuff okay so high price related staff dressing today informally well I sure AM thank you no wonder that link wasn't working better at the salon okay there we have to give him our nice that was very good okay that high and I want to move this over here [Music] we went the phone numbers are wonderful next we're going to change that to phone number let's see and I'll tell you guys that I do this little kind of stuff probably about telomere cookout could be 20 times a day when I'm talking to people on our support chat because they'll come on they'll come on the line they go on I know how to do this particular thing or I have a thing that I want to connect this way like I'm trying to build like this schedule and I want to do this that the other thing services have no staff let me check everything else that all looks good let's publish something and I'll go back and fix the permalink and the other one real fast this template I'm going to have to edit all these little dead spaces out of here I just made it up okay now when I go back and set the stat the services to have that template show automatically services D channel for service little detail before very fun this is local so alright so now if I do Chris and I go into standard haircut at all and I go back and forth oh I forgot ugly thank you there oh I'm floating the phone number over the top of your vessel I'm floating two things on the same line so that's why that's not working that actually should be not floated the price I need to actually just put that up here something to fix at least you guys can see how it works okay pretty straightforward let's get back into our demo switch a mouse again okay so that was prototyping with buzz template what else can you do applies you can create a custom settings page and these are great for when you're using common text throughout the website lets they got logo let's say you've got very specific colors that you want to apply to the entire site but maybe you want the client to be able to like change them or maybe they've got one graphic that they want to always use as a default header or something of that nature for their phone numbers business hours or address because some settings page is great for that because it applies to the entire site there's no post to it you can also extend the users media or other plugins to let's say in the case of the salon let's say we wanted to actually make it so that we showed which member which people were actually in that day so let's say I extended users I linked it to the staff and I linked the lens of the record in there when the link comes and she goes and she checks the box off that said am working today and then if she shows up and the widget on the side that says this staff member is working today so kind of useful stuff you can extend media so you can connect them to specific posts you can add categorization to them all kinds of stuff you can also connect to pots with PHP the REST API or the pasta API we scored all WordPress four methods of communicating with the content created with pods so all of your standard get post meta get text on my stuff get turn list all that stuff works just fine because these are standard WordPress core taxonomy post types etc only thing I'm not talking about somebody stack silent maybe cuz I was going into and I said you know what it's just too much I can already see blaze guys out there and I don't want to like lose anymore but the nice thing is is that you can you can connect to all of our stuff with the standard work transmitted so most things will show our stuff automatically we also have a REST API so if you don't want to go WordPress at all and all you really want to do is let work recipe your database back-end you can use a react friend or at a view front end or a any of the other ones and connect to the REST API and have this stuff to share way how you want show we also have an internal API which gives a lot more full connection methods that's what I learned first I didn't actually learn WordPress PHP first I learned the pods API first so I'm much more comfortable on that side of the house to get help the top installing it is directly from the WordPress me but also in the back then just go add new program subpod we have a support form on the WordPress on our website our documentation is at pod that is live stop we are revamping this hopefully by September October it will be relaunched and will be docked on Gaia and will automatically redirect I'm building a very large knowledge base in pods that links to all our videos our step by step tutorials our case studies our code snippets but that's all that stuff and it all kind of like connects together using those wonderful things that's called pods collection meters we also the flat tap if you go to Positano slash chat on the support channel I pretty much live on that thing so anytime you've got a question when you're working on stuff just drop in after questions I will help you that's kind of how we go around here we are at free plugin that's free support why are you free that's amazing yeah no it's not true automatics provides some money yes but we get all the rest of our money illuminated donations automatic decided that they thought our product was was good enough that it needed to be free because there's a concept we think about it isn't that work when you're at that stage I like to go all the way back to the beginning of the slide show where we show you know your work or web developer and you're just getting started thinking about doing data-driven websites that actually have complicated content we're an on-ramp we're like a really good plugin to get used to to start building really smartly driven data-driven websites and we felt like that needed to be free but just because we're free doesn't mean we're not valuable so if you value what we do for free donate to us the little donation model down here called friend up friends of pods friends applaud buyer it's a subscription model we have like discounts for a lot of the plugins postgame and some other stuff that you guys might actually use those developers discount codes size around discount codes it did with the engine discount codes for beaver builder a lot of stuff and some folk just give us money because they wanted but it gives us a lot it's the lights on what is hogs ever a there you never flooded the network never we were always spring we we actually were report from Drupal CCK we were around before couple WordPress had post types yeah and that kind of a structure that we used at that time was actually all table based actual external temples to WordPress when WordPress launched their custom post types we revamped and deposited to up 2.2 title it was our very first Kickstarter which was absolutely going to cost us money more than getaway around Scott honestly probably paid most about Amazon popular for but anyway okay we revamped to use the custom post types and custom meta like WordPress uses but we have one table that sits outside of WordPress called the VB pods relation and it stores this odd little connections they would basically think about it as our relationships are very fast because we're indexed through that table but we also store the connection inside the post meta for your relationship so you can still get it out of dependencies or pause with another plug-in can you embed that plug-in or if you prefer you can do a teaching elected on whether called TGM activate or whatever you can make cause be installed and activated on if you're distributing something yet so are basically the custom post types that we create the custom medical we create it's all written to the database it doesn't delete it so if you've got rid of it you still have it but you have to register your post object so we don't do an export to code right now we probably will after pods 2.9 or 3 dot oh we're switching to object based fields and that's going to begin tapas-style alone so I don't understand it but anyway we're simplified a lot of our configurations etc and once we do that we should be able to do an export to code a lot easier we have extremely complicated additional capabilities inside pods as well you can reach on your database your WordPress database along the actual database you can reach out to external tables if you're on a multi site you can reach out to the multi-site tables and read things we're not Network capable but once we do the build objects etc we should be able to actually do a full network configuration that you can pass down to your multi networks I think there's a lot of amazing things coming to us Evan just the first of them that wonderful little column we call them flexible relationships Olinsky but that's 2.7 2.8 is going to be our field manager and it's going to allow you to create that little metal box wrappers and massive amounts of duty all over the place to that 9 I think is repeating fields and leap fields and by the way we've always haven't built because we've had relationships we just never believe we never agreed with the way that repeating fields were stored because the way they store their data forces you to read every single record in the database to do summarizations of content and that's not an efficient thing we could talk about that a question networks so ok I'm Jim tree and the support link reaming Roger Klotz framework again that is our website that's my website I am also the organizer for WordPress saint-petersburg we do meetups monthly in Saint Pete here at the iron yard this month the next month of that I got to find another location for us first and second thursdays every month our website which we just launched relaunched anyway this kind of a repeat of the work that we have on that website as a link to our snapchat our facebook group and our meetups we are currently in the process of splitting all of our regional meetups for Tampa into city based lead us to so that they'll show up on your dashboard should be seeing an announcement out out on that soon and we're going to do a very heartfelt thank you to my under st. Pete they have hosted us here for two years September next month is our last meetup here iron yard is closing unfortunately they are closing nationwide so we are in search of another place to house and I'm turn left cry I love these people they have done amazing to us they've just been awesome they never charges dying and they let us use these amazing places to do our meet upset but yeah we were looking for just no locations right now I'm in talks with the st. Petersburg Library System I'm going to be meeting with the green house and some others but if you guys have many locations that you think might work hop on the Kimbe wordpress.org up into our slack let me know and we will start looking out and that is that guys we're done

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Length: 56min 25sec (3385 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 04 2017