Wordpress PODS display content from a post - wordpress

Question

I've recently started using Wordpress PODS plugin and I'm having a little trouble displaying some basic content. I can display custom fields content just fine using the following:
<?php
$field_name = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), ‘my_field_name’, true );
echo $field_name; ?>
However I can't get basic stuff such as the following:
title (which in regular posts it’s just the_title();)
content (which in regular posts it’s just the_content();)
featured image
Can someone please help me figure out how to pull the title, content and featured image from a POD?

Answer 1

pod-type-slug should be replaced by the slug of your pod type. The pod-slug is the slug of the specific pod content you created:
//Pods->display has been deprecated since Pods version 2.0 with no alternative available according to a warning when trying to use this function:
$pod = pods('pod-type-slug', "pod-slug");
$pod->display('title')
$pod->display('post_content')
etc.
You can also use the default WordPress functionality:
$pod = pods('pod-type-slug', "pod-slug");
$row = $pod->row();
//print the pod content:
echo $row->post_content;
get_the_post_thumbnail($row['ID']);

Answer 2

After a frustrating hour of Googling and looking through their examples, there didn't seem to be a single source of how to get a Pod's content or custom field. The answer above helped me a bit, but wasn't well explained.
In your wp-content/plugins folder, create a new folder called podutils and create a php file called PodUtils.php.
Copy/paste this class into that file:
<?php
//Class to get WordPress Pod data:
class PodUtils {
//get WordPress Pod Object:
public static function GetPodObject($podType, $podSlug) {
//for use with Pods WP Plugin (https://pods.io/):
if(function_exists("pods")) {
$pod = pods($podType, $podSlug)->row();
return $pod;
} else {
return false;
}
}
//get the content from a WordPress Pod:
public static function GetPodContent($podType, $podSlug) {
$pod = PodUtils::GetPodObject($podType, $podSlug);
if($pod !== false) {
return $pod["post_content"];
} else {
return false;
}
}
//get a custom field from a WordPress Pod:
public static function GetPodMeta($podType, $podSlug, $metaName, $isSingle = true) {
$pod = PodUtils::GetPodObject($podType, $podSlug);
if($pod !== false) {
return get_post_meta($pod["ID"], $metaName, $isSingle);
} else {
return false;
}
}
}
To use the class with static methods, do so as follows:
Include the PodUtils.php file in the php file you want to use it:
require_once ABSPATH . 'wp-content/plugins/podutils/PodUtils.php';
Get content:
$strPodContent = PodUtils::GetPodContent('pod-type', 'pod-item-slug');
Get meta (custom field you added to a pod type):
$strPodMeta = PodUtils::GetPodMeta('pod-type', 'pod-item-slug', 'custom-meta-name');
This can easily be changed to an object that you instantiate with public functions, or a plugin of its own.