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maiki
(@maiki)
@scott, I’ve been hesitant to answer, because there is an adversarial tone taken towards non-coders in the Pods forums. I’ve pieced together enough from the various tutorials around to figure out how to show my content using Pod Pages. I don’t know how to do it any other way, and every time someone asks they are told that they need to do the coding themselves.
I’m not a coder, but I like Pods over the other custom field plugins, it is the closest to CCK + Views in Drupal, which I understand really well, so I’ve just kinda hacked at it. I’ve read all the new docs, but I still can’t figure out how to do it without Pod Pages and Templates.
Sorry if I ever came across with adversarial tones, that’s definitely not the case from my side. I spend a great deal of my time helping people but I’m limited in exactly what I can do for each person.
In short, you can use Pods in many different ways and while there are easier ways to do things, knowing how to do it in any way is going to be a process for any non-coder. I think you’ve done well so far, so I wouldn’t sell yourself entirely short here. Drupal + CCK + Views is enough to give you extra credit on any development test 🙂
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maiki
(@maiki)
Thanks for the encouragement. I want to say that I know how difficult it is to get through the deluge of messages from folks that honestly won’t even read the docs first, and just want someone to build their site for them. I also think that Pods is where its at, and I know in the last year I’ve been playing with it, it has gotten more polish in each release. ^_^
Scott, do you know of documentation or tutorials that lay out using CPTs without Pod Pages? I’ve seen it advised often, but I don’t know the first place to start. If I could get a high-level overview I could probably figure it out from there. One problem it might solve is the one in this thread, where the short URLs aren’t showing on the Pod Page template I created.
We are working on individual sets of docs for each component, but there’s no timeline on that right now. We’re looking for people to help out with our docs because I’ve got my hands full with some hefty Pods 2.4 features that everyone wants.
