Looking through Analytics, I noticed that a few people have stumbled upon the blog by searching for “pods how to write a display helper.” Although the current User Guide has a page for it, some of you may be looking for something more in-depth or instructive.
One of the great features of the Pods CMS plugin is that you can specify a permalink structure for your Pod detail pages. You can easily get the permalink from a Pod record and use it in your Pod Pages or Pod Templates. But what if you just wanted to create a simple link from a WordPress Post or Page?
I mentioned in my last post on canonical URLs that we can let Wordpress handle them automatically for Pods, in a similar manner as Wordpress’ native Posts and Pages. But because Pod Pages aren’t inherently associated with specific Pod items, it will never be a complete solution. Still, it’s an interesting exercise in programming new functionality with the Pods CMS.
Someone recently posted a question about customizing page titles for Pod Pages over at the Pods CMS Forums. The problem is that using Magic Tags in the title isn’t intuitive, because it requires you to set a specific variable in your precode. But as I pointed out there, this goes beyond page titles to a more fundamental problem: associating your Pod Pages with specific Pod records.
One question that comes up frequently among new users of the Pods CMS plugin for Wordpress is “How do I display images?” While Pods makes it easy for you to add images (and other media) to your items, getting those images to show up isn’t as straightforward as it is with other data.
Let’s get this blog started, shall we?
As I mention in the About page, I’ve had to learn web development on my own, mainly using online resources and reading through lots of documentation. I started Tokyograph back in 2006, and at the time, I barely knew anything about running a website. I wrote the site from scratch in PHP and MySQL, trying to build a reasonable CMS. So far, it’s served its purpose, but I’ve learned a lot since then.
