3.2.8 - November 17th, 2024

REMINDER: PHP support for Pod Templates and Pod Pages been turned off by default in Pods 3.2.7+ (PODS_DISABLE_EVAL constant set to false can be used to re-enable it). It will be completely removed in Pods 3.3 after being deprecated back in Pods 2.3. (@sc0ttkclark)

• Feature: Migrate the PHP in your Pod Templates and Pod Pages directly into your current theme with a new Pods Admin > Tools > Migrate PHP tool. We recommend you use a child theme that you control. PHP warnings now appear on the Pod Template and Pod Page editor screens to prompt you to run the migration. (@sc0ttkclark)
• Feature: Updated the design and user experience of the various guided screens inside of the Pods Admin to make it easier to read and click through on small screens. (@sc0ttkclark, @heybran)
• Enhanced: Pod Page template part handling for PHP template files now passes the $pods variable. (@sc0ttkclark)
• Enhanced: Added support for parsing magic tags in Pod Template files in the theme when you set the PHP header comment Magic Tags: Enabled. (@sc0ttkclark)
• Enhanced: Run wpautop on Pods Item List and Pods Related Item List blocks for the "not found" content if they are not already formatted. (@sc0ttkclark)
• Fixed: Only running wpautop for block the Pods Field block content if it does not contain div, ul, ol, heading, or p HTML tags. (@sc0ttkclark)
• Fixed: Resolve issue with empty strings showing when using magic tags before/after functionality. (@JoryHogeveen)
• Fixed: Ignore more internal WP post types and taxonomies plus others from other plugins.
• Fixed: Move load_plugin_textdomain usage into init and make it optional with the constant PODS_LOAD_TEXTDOMAIN set to true. It is no longer needed for WordPress.org plugins but may be needed in the future for testing. (@sc0ttkclark)
• Fixed: When getting plugin data, don't make it translatable. (@sc0ttkclark)
• Fixed: When saving bidirectional relationship, attempt to save hook up existing related items data in the wp_podsrel table with the bidirectional connection. (@sc0ttkclark)
• Fixed: Resolve PHP notices with site debug information. (@sc0ttkclark)
• Fixed: Resolve PHP warnings with empty template code. (@sc0ttkclark)
• Fixed: More improvements to Pod Page and Pod Template file loading from themes. (@sc0ttkclark)
• Fixed: Resolve issue with slug fields not formatting as expected. (@sc0ttkclark)
• Fixed: SCSS migrated from @import to @use for compatibility with the latest versions of our SCSS scripting. (@sc0ttkclark)