Managing Pods

create a structured dataset

Adding a pod

  1. In the Wordpress dashboard: click on the Pods section on the right
  2. Click on "Setup"
  3. Click on the “Add new pod” button
  4. Type the name of the pod
  5. Click on the “Add pod” button

Editing a pod

SettingDetails
Top Level Menu? (checkbox) Checking this box will give this pod type its own admin section (similar to "Settings" or "Pages", etc., in the left channel of the WordPress admin interface), with sub-links linking to "Add New" and "Edit". Leaving this unchecked leaves the link to Add new pod records for this pod type under the main "Pods" section.
Menu Label (text field) By default, the menu label for pod types will be their name. This might be undesirable sometimes, as names cannot contain spaces and often have underscores. The value in this field will be used to create a menu label in the WordPress admin area left channel.
Detail Page (text field) The value provided here is used by the magic-tag @detail_url. If you have a field called slug with a column type of permalink in your pod, then you could use events/{@slug} for instance.

Adding pod Columns

  1. In Admin, click on Pods > Setup
  2. Click on the pod you want to change (if any exist)
  3. Start filling in the fields under the “Add Column” on the right of the screen.

Removing a pod

  1. In the Wordpress dashboard: click on the Pods section on the right
  2. Click on "Setup"
  3. Select the pod you wish to remove in the pods dropdown.
  4. Click on the "drop pod" link next to the "Save settings" button.
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