Title: existing content types and fields
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# existing content types and fields

 *  Resolved [JustBruno](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justbruno/)
 * (@justbruno)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/existing-content-types-and-fields/)
 * Does this plugin work with existing fields? Specifically I am wondering if I 
   will be able to work with Woocommerce product fields, categories and tags.
    Thanks.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/pods/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/pods/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Josh Pollock](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shelob9/)
 * (@shelob9)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/existing-content-types-and-fields/#post-5157872)
 * Simple answer is yes. Everything works with the custom meta fields added by WooCommerce
   and with categories and tags. What do you want to do with those fields? If you
   explain what you’re trying to do a little more, so I understand what your goals
   are, I can point you in the right direction on how to do what you want to do 
   with Pods.
 *  Thread Starter [JustBruno](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justbruno/)
 * (@justbruno)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/existing-content-types-and-fields/#post-5157886)
 * Hi Josh,
 * That’s not an easy question to answer. My expertise is Drupal where I am soooo
   used to working with cck and views. The best answer I can give you is that I 
   would like to be able to do custom views with categories and tags, for example
   Category is Shirts and tags are color:red,blue,green. A resulting “view” might
   be Shirts with fields sku, price, description and color, sortable by color or
   price. That’s just one of many scenarios but the most typical that I can think
   of.
 * Also, my client would probably want to use the sorting and filtering for product
   and sales reports.
 * Also, while I have you… In Drupal, there is a plugin to the views module that
   is called bulk operations that allows bulk editing of fields. Is there such a
   function in Pods that would allow bulk editing of fields and/or tags and categories?
 * Thanks for your help and quick response!!
 *  Plugin Contributor [Josh Pollock](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shelob9/)
 * (@shelob9)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/existing-content-types-and-fields/#post-5157895)
 * For the first half of your question, you can extend the product custom post type
   from WooCommerce with Pods, and then use Pods to work with it, I think just using
   WP_Query makes more sense for getting posts by category or tag. Pods is adding
   an extra layer of abstraction there, which I’m not sure is needed.
 * For your second question, no, not in Pods, though we do have CSV import. But 
   remember that if you use the default meta storage, these fields are totally standard
   and can be used with any plugin that supports custom post types and custom fields.
   I’m sure there is a good bulk edit plugin out there, I’ve just never had the 
   need for one.

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