Elementor: Pods Integration

[HQRaja]

With 2.0 out now along with the promise of deep integrations with ACF and Toolset, the excellent Pods shouldn't be left out of the picture.

Description

Many developers rely heavily on building custom functionality in their projects with Pods. Beaver Themer already has an official Pods integration enabling developers to easily add Pods fields to a layout they build for a CPT, using a dropdown. Elementor users can benefit from the same integration.

Just in the post announcing Elementor 2.0 , there were eight requests for Pods integration in the comments, which clearly shows user demand.

In light of the above and on behalf of all those who asked for the integration in the aforementioned comments, I'd like to officially request the integration here.

[mjunaidit]

+1 for the request. I'd very much like Pods to be officially integrated with Elementor as well.

[twotweak]

+1 for the request. Currently using ‘Pods’ on my website and I also would love to have it officially integrated with Elementor.

[srcek]

+1 for the request. Pods is completely free, well rated, solution for which you should definitely consider adding official support.

[kharysharpe]

+10 Adding Pods ( https://pods.io/ ) would support would make it the most comprehensive solution for building Wordpress websites.

[caseyfulgenzi]

+1 for the request! Pods is free, stable and loved by many. Pods integration is the one thing that keeps me holding onto BB/Themer and not going all-in with Elementor.

[paulherzlich]

+1 for Pods integration

[josecristobal]

+100 Pods integration.

[HQRaja]

@caseyfulgenzi I feel the same, and I've come across others who have voiced the exact same sentiment. The only two things keeping them from going all-in with Elementor from Beaver were Themer and Pods integration. With theme-building features now already a part of Elementor 2.0, Pods is that one last remaining bit.

[Bannerman]

Yes, please! Same deal here, I would love to fully move over from Beaver!

I actually thought in one of the beta videos of 2.0, I had seen a reference to Pods.

[ddenev]

+1

[tristanleboss]

+1

[mikekl2]

Yup, +1 for Pods

[reachadam]

This would be a dream come true for me, support for pods relationship fields. I'll be using 2 builders in the meantime.

This can also be supported by giving the user the option to enter in the field name for dynamic fields. Sure there won't be a populated list, but this will work for my needs.

[elasticeye]

+1 for PODS integration. That would be awesome.

[ablewebs]

+1 for Pods integration. I have several critical CPTs created in Pods that took me ages and ages to build. So I can't switch from Beaver Builder to Elementor until Pods is fully integrated. Trying to re-do them all in ACT (which I have never used) is not an option... way too stressful even thinking about!

[usmanlatif]

+1 for Pods.

[jayalove]

+1

[aju29]

+1 Pods Please.

[zac-cmn]

+1 With Pods integration I can make a full transition from BeaverBuilder to ELementor

[quantissimo]

+1 please

[ionlantern]

+1

[muzaffarsiddiqui]

+1 for PODs. We really need this in Elementor.

[deptgraffig]

+1 for Pods integration please

[icecandy]

+1 for pods as I found it to be the easiest (free) solution to add CPT's and I love using Elementor.

[umairqureshi6]

+1

[WayneStratton]

+1 - Essential

[HQRaja]

UPDATE: @quasel (the developer of the Pods Beaver Themer Add-on) has commented on the issue linked above on Pods GitHub, mentioning (but not promising) that he'll look into building it. His concern is support, however, since in his experience, the Beaver Themer add-on already puts some load on the Pods support team. @bainternet would the Elementor support team be interested in taking care of the support?

[jimtrue]

This can also be supported by giving the user the option to enter in the field name for dynamic fields. Sure there won't be a populated list, but this will work for my needs.

@reachadam Why wouldn't it be a populated list? Pods fields are WordPress Custom Meta. They're in the post meta for the post type. It should be able to easily populate the list of fields. The only item that would be dealt with differently is relationship fields and those are a serialized array of the post id's on the other side of the relationship.

[sc0ttkclark]

We're open to discussion with the Elementor team about official Pods integration. My e-mail is [email protected]

[reachadam]

@jimtrue Custom fields are now being populated, yes. It's the related fields that, in my mind, make PODS so special. That is not working for the reasons you outlined. Just need the mechanism to allow those to be used.

[serenator]

+1 for Pods integration please

[jimtrue]

@reachadam Are Types Relationship fields being populated? I would _almost_ hazard a guess that their implementation should be identical.

[reachadam]

@jimtrue I can see in the fields drop down where all the fields are, my related posts. But there is no way to select a field from a related post. If I do select the related post, the value it displays just says Array.

[HQRaja]

@sc0ttkclark Thank you - that's awesome! With you on board already, I hope we can also get someone from Elementor on board officially. I'm super-excited!

@bainternet We'd love to hear from you (or someone else from the Elementor team) in this regard, now that Scott has offered to collaborate for an official integration.

[peterhrnciar]

+1 for Pods

[codeagencybe]

I'm already working on a project with E Pro 2 and Pods for a new client (they are informed some stuff is still in beta and some features might not work.
So far, most things I tried already work out of the box.
I made a single-item CPT and an archive CPT, E templates for both and design them in E, custom fields, ... most things work.
Custom fields are also recognized by Elementor and show up nice. I would say today maybe 70% already works. So for "simple" projects, no reason to hold back I would say.

The only issue I could find so far, is that it does not support e.g. image gallery elements. Even though the dynamic field option is there, and using the correct pods image custom field with correction settings, it does not work properly (yet).
It seems Elementor can not pull the correct ID('s) to display the right images.

So far, I could solve it by just using a text field and paste in a shortcode from Pods itself, and automagically it also nicely returns the "native" image gallery from Wordpress.

I'm sure a lot new feats and optimizations will come in the next weeks and months, but so far I'm quite happy already how it works with Pods and I can keep working on with this combo.

[quasel]

I'll take a look at the current state start of next week - if there is an easy way to do it - the question remains if the Elementor Team want's to include it out of the box or if we need a separate plugin like done for BB! - and the rest needs to be discussed with @sc0ttkclark and the Rest of the Team ;)

[smatzis]

+1 please

[randomfreeform]

+1 Pods Please.

[EnzoTheBaker]

+1 for Pods

[OKDnet]

Yes, +++1 for native Pods integration. I think it's almost inevitable. Well maybe that's because to me it seems frankly like a no-brainer (not necessarily in the effort to, rather in the need to).

[imzeeshan]

+1 for Pods.

[jsmartin51]

+1 for Pods built in to E
The only thing stopping me taking Elementor on

[bkonia]

+1

[themedleb]

+1

[cbrcongit]

+1 full integration of Pods field types through to Elementor modules.
I love BeaverBuilder, but it seems Elementor is getting requested more often than I'd like to include, not that it isn't fantastic also;
This would solve quite a few headaches right now 😁 Good market sense @sc0ttkclark, nice!

[stevek28]

+1 for Pods.. Thank you!

[looknear]

+1

[eddiebail]

+1 Cannot commit fully to Elementor 2.0 without Pods integration like Beaver Themer. This should be top of the list of things to implement.

[HQRaja]

@codeagencybe For me, the Pods custom fields aren't showing up in Elementor for some reason. I've created a whole bunch of them for a CPT created in Pods, but when I try to add a dynamic field connection for them, they're simply not there in 'Custom fields'.

[gabrieluntura]

+1

[yoclay]

+1 Elementor 2.0 is fantastic but without Pods integration I will continue to use Beaver Builder with Beaver Themer.

[jolusadev]

+1 for the request.

[BigBearLio]

+100 for Pods :)

[ordilibre]

+1 for the request

[AllanSJ]

+1 for PODS. Please Elementor team also work on making more of the widget fields accept dynamic content such as links and shortcode box. I have done a project using ACF (against my will) and ran into a hurdle when I needed the form redirect url to be different on each post page..

[renecnielsen]

+1

[zSeriesGuy]

+1 for PODS

[oldrup]

Mmmm. Pods...

Extending a site made with Pods and Avada. It's works fantastic, but I'd REALLY love to layout my designs in a visual editor like Elementor. ACF is great, but I need the relationsships between CPT's that Pods provides.

+1 for Pods integration in Elementor

[quasel]

We are still waiting to hear back from the Elementar Team, we got a first email but then the conversation ended ;) - they wanted to put us in contact with a developer from them ^^ the main issue is that the way we did it for BB wasn't ideal du to the added support burden on the support on our side :(

[helenryle]

+1 for Pods integration into Elementor 2

[natcreat]

+1 for Pods. ;)

[mrdavefoy]

+1 for Pods integration. Yes please please please please. Please.

[HQRaja]

@quasel Considering this is the second-most-requested feature among all the requests on Elementor GitHub, be it open or close, I'm surprised at the silence from Elementor on it, especially after you and @sc0ttkclark have offered to officially help with it from Pods' side.

@arielk @kobizz @KingYes Any update from you guys?

@reachadam considering your interest in it, could you help us push for it?

PS: I understand that the actual implementation may take considerable time and there must be other priorities on the Elementor team's to-do list already, which is completely understandable. So, no commitment or timeline necessary - just some response from the team would do, so that we'd know whether to expect it at all or not.

[quasel]

@reachadam offered me to fund development if needed but the main point which should be settled first is wether it will be integrated with elementor or be standalone and if standalone if it's supported officialy by the pods team! As we learned from our experience with BB that this can put quite a strain on our support resources! ;) As a last resort I might do an "unofficial" integration but that's another story ;)

[HQRaja]

@quasel Based on what @sc0ttkclark posted here above, it seems Pods is willing to officially help with it. Not sure if they mean to officially support it, though. With radio silence from Elementor, I'm hoping for Pods to clarify on that.

[quasel]

Well @sc0ttkclark is open to discuss it but without a commitment from the elementor team there will be no "official" add-on from the Pods-Team ;)

[angrycodepoet]

+1 for all of Elementor 2.0 to work like the Map component does now. It has a custom post field dropdown that allows you to pick "address" from your Pod and populates the Google Map accordingly. Add that to the Heading, Text Editor, etc. to allow quick and easy building of a Pod Template that can be associated with the Pod type to make it a no-brainer to add to your WordPress site. Combine Pods, Elementor 2.0, and Caldera Forms round trip front-end editing and there would literally be nothing that could compete in terms of ease-of-use and power.

[klarakalko]

+1 for Pods integration.

[joeyismusic]

+1 for official Pods x Elementor integration

[gatewayman]

+1 for Pods integration, eagerly expectant.

[fullontom]

+1 for Pods integration. Any news on the issue?

[EdwardBurns]

+1 for Pods integration

[danadalis]

Big + for Pods in elementor. ACF is lacking the possibility to create CPT and the Elementor integration doesn't allow the use of fields in ACF Options Page. I hope you integrate PODS and make it possible to use fields from Options Page. Today i solve this by using pods shortcodes, but thats really crapy UX for my clients. So again, a +1000 for a pods integration.

[andrewvink]

+1 for Pods integration - Would be awesome to have this!!

[collindavis]

Using Pods currently but having to hack it a bit with shortcodes and another plug-in to support custom post types. +1 for this to improve the workflow!

[quasel]

it's part of the 2.1 Release - I did test it an the basics seem to work - I'm not an Elementor user ;) just a page builder user that happens to help out with pods ;) my favorite tool is still BB ;) but I love the competition!

[fyrstorm]

yes +1 for pods integration, please!

[collindavis]

Love the integration BUT could REALLY use dynamic field support for the Slug/ID field to make this perfect.

[adrianf]

+1 to add pods plse .

[sushinger]

+1 for Pods integration! Thank you for you good work :-)

[collindavis]

Already included.

On Aug 19, 2018, at 5:04 AM, adrianf [e-mail] wrote:

+1 to add pods plse .

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