Set It and Forget It: Structured Content in WordPress with the Pods Framework

For a content-heavy website, you have to go beyond the WYSIWYG to focus on what’s important — the content. Structured content helps with consistency in content as well as layout.

There are multiple methods of building structured content in WordPress. The Pods Framework is a powerful way to “set it and forget it!” Focus on your content and relax about the layout.

We will discuss:

• Reasons for using Pods over solutions like ACF
• Custom taxonomies and custom post types in Pods
• Setting up Pods templates with “Magic Tags”
• Using conditionals in Pods templates to format layouts depending on available content
• Using Pods shortcodes to build pages with structured content

We’ll run through a case study of an archive website using Pods custom taxonomy, custom post types, templates, and shortcodes on the IA Summit conference website.

About the Speaker

Anita Cheng is a former cancer scientist who went into tech to help people faster. She dabbled in medical illustration, graphic design, then web design before discovering user experience design. She is currently Content Strategist and UX Designer at the SF Mayor’s Office of Housing & Community Development. She is also content strategist, information architect, and WordPress guru of this year’s IA Summit conference website, which she will be demo-ing during the event. She started her web design career with HTML/CSS, and has added JQuery, WordPress, and ASP.NET to her skills.