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as shared by Scott Kingsley Clark

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Content Types be crazy, yo!

- Post Types- Taxonomies- Media- Comments- Users

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Post Types, yum!

The general purpose extendable content type

- Posts- Pages- Media- Menus (internal)- Revisions (internal)

- Formats- Status (workflow)- Archives- Editor- Custom Fields

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Post Types, yum!

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#Taxonomies

Categorization and tagging, simple relationships

- Categories- Tags

- Relationships- Archives- No Custom Fields :(

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Media

Preface: WP 3.5 will pop your tires and salt your wounds

- Featured Images- Embed in Content- Reference External- Image Sizes- Cropping

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Comments keep things @social

- Comment Types (internal)- Custom Fields

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Users gotta use

- Login- Register- Lost Password- Profiles

- Roles and Capabilities- Custom Fields- Gravatar Integration

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20k+ plugins, 330m+ downloads

Does WordPress do that? It can.

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Post Types: Meta Group Overload!

Tabify Edit Screen

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Comments: Bringing #social together

To be fair.. there are many plugins! Here are a few (in no particular order):

- Social- Jetpack Comments- Livefyre- Disqus- IntenseDebate

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Users: Roles and Capabilities

Members

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Custom Fields

- Advanced Custom Fields- Pods 2.0- Types

Many choices, Ready to get in deep?

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Advanced Custom Fields

- Add Custom Fields to:- Post Types- Taxonomies (wp_options)- Media- Users- Nice UI- Field Types (including loop premium field $)- Custom Theming Functions- Centered around Groups of Fields, not Content Types

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ContentSettingsStorage

Fields UI

Themes

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Pods 2.0- Create Content Types:- Custom Post Types- Custom Taxonomies- Custom Content Types (their own standalone tables)- Extend Content Types:- Post Types (including any existing CPT)- Taxonomies (including any existing CT)- Media- Users- Comments

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Pods 2.0: Optional Table Storage- Meta storage by default- Post Types- Media- Users- Comments- Table storage- Custom Content Types- Taxonomies- Can be enabled for any meta-based types

wp_postswp_postmeta

wp_pods_t_podname

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Pods 2.0: Field Types- Text- Paragraph Text

(WYSWIG optional)- Date and/or Time- Number / Currency- Checkbox- File Upload / Attach

(WP native interface)

- Relationships- Custom Defined List- Post Types- Taxonomies- Users- Comments- Pods- Custom Field Types- Pre/Post action,

Validation, Regex, Display, and Input

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Pods 2.0: Theming- Simple Template

Engine with {@field_name} syntax- Shortcodes (List,

Detail, Single Field)- Widgets (List, Detail,

Single Field)

- Public Forms- Advanced Theming

Functions$names = pod->field(‘parent.child.tertiary.name’)

- WP native function integrations for each WP object (*_*_meta)- Advanced

get_template_part()

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Pods 2.0: API and more- Use the API to add/

edit/delete Pods, Fields, Meta Groups, Pod Items, and other objects- WP native helper

methods available within API

- Optional Components- Gravity Forms- Roles and Caps- Markdown Syntax- Multiple Developer

Project- Sponsored by

Automattic, RD2, and MarkNet Group

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Looking ahead into Pods 2.1- Support for the WP VIP environment- Loop fields- Field Groups (API is already in 2.0)- Components- Custom Image Sizes- Custom Post Statuses- Custom Shortcodes

- XML-RPC API integrationand Network-wide Mode available by Pods 2.2

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Keep it simple, Users will enjoy, Code is Poetry