How to Display Pods Data Properly Using Atahualpa Theme of WordPress

If you use Pods CMS plugin with Atahualpa theme for your WordPress-based site, then this following modification is for you, indeed. It will show you how to display the Pods data properly by using Atahualpa theme in WordPress site. Atahualpa is one of the best WordPress theme that I have been using for this last one year. It is a very powerful theme. However, for some beginners, this theme looks too complicated, especially if you want to hard-code the source in order to put your own content into its sidebar. For example, in this case that we are talking about, when you add your own Pods data into the middle-area of your site, the sidebars are messed-up. Then, after for several hours exploring this theme, I found the trick how you can add your Pods data easily by modifying one of the theme’s files, afterwards adding your own template files and put them inside the Atahualpa theme directory. Yay! That’s so simple, huh?

1. Open your wp-content/themes/{youratahualpathemename}/bfa_get_options.php file, and find this code:

   } elseif ( is_category() ) {

   then replace with this following code:

   } elseif ( is_category() || is_pod_page() ) { // modified by Masino Sinaga, July 2010

   That modification means that the Pods page will be treated with the same way when WordPress display the posts based on their categories.

2. Create your own template file that compatible with the WordPress, for example:

   <?php
   /*
   Template Name: YourTemplateName
   */
    
   include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/functions/bfa_get_options.php');
   get_header();
    
   // your code to display Pods data goes here ...
    
   get_footer();
   ?>

   then save it as (for example): my-first-template.php file, and put this file inside your Atahualpa theme directory.

   Please note that you have to always put the include statement just like above in order to include the bfa_get_options.php file, in order to tell the theme to always check whether the current page is a pod page or not as shown in the first step above.

Have a nice code!