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WordPress PodsCMS SEO Titles Plugin

Mike Van Winkle — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:02:54 +0000

I haven’t submit this plugin to the WordPress SVN yet, because I’m still playing with it. The remaining issue is that while it works, I’m not sure it works in the most efficient manner possible. I’m also going to post it over at @podscms and get some feedback.

At any rate, for anyone who’s running a pods installation and having trouble getting SEO friendly titles on your pod pages, this plugin creates a template tag that you can use to override wordpress default behavior. The plugins check to see if the page is a pod page, and if so calls the title of the respective pod. If not, it checks to see if the page is singular and returns the TITLE | SITENAME format if it is. Otherwise it returns the SITENAME | SITE DESCRIPTION form.

Download: Pods SEO Titles

Wordcamp Fayetteville Pods Presentation

Mike Van Winkle — Sat, 29 May 2010 23:52:45 +0000

Thank you to everyone who attended my presentation on WordPress Pods at Wordcamp Fayetteville. As promised I’ve posted the presentation on slideshare.net. I also recorded the presentation with Screenflow and will hopefully get it posted tomorrow. And don’t forget to … Continue reading →

Pods Tutorials Down

Mike Van Winkle — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:37:03 +0000

For some reason I’m having trouble with my pods installation. If you are looking for pods tutorials, reference this post until I get it fixed. Apologies.

WordPress CMS has arrived

Mike Van Winkle — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:17:33 +0000

I work for a non-profit and most of my freelance clients are non-profits. Money is scarce but needs are many. Most organizations need a full content management system. They need an events calendar, a multimedia gallery, a press release section and a dozen other content types. But they can’t afford it.

I used to handle this with a mishmash of plugins for calendars, downloads, videos, etc. But the problem was each solution was discrete. For instance, it was difficult to associate a video with an event. This is because, for all its advantages, the WordPress core simply is not a CMS. It basically has two content types: post and page. Yes, the functionality of custom fields helps boost the performance of these two types. But custom fields are cumbersome and user un-friendly.

What WordPress needed was some sort of content construction plugin that would allows users to create their own types of content beyond the post and page.

A few months ago, I discovered a new plugin that does just that. It’s called Pods. Pods is a very efficient framework that sits on top of your WordPress installation. It allows you to easily create content types and then theme those types.

Over the next couple weeks I’m going to post a series of tutorials on different ways you can use pods. In the meantime, head over to their site and download the plugin.