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Improving Basic Filter Become Advanced Filter in Pods CMS of WordPress

September 26th, 2009 Masino Sinaga Comments off

Currently, the Filter Form up to Pods CMS version 1.7.3 still uses the basic form. It has one textbox and one button only. In addition, this filter form can only filter the recordset that returned by its process based on the name field. So I made modification/enhancement by adding combobox that contains of all fields from the table in order to make user easier to choose based which field they will filter, which has default is filter in all fields or any field. Besides that, I also added the search type, whether Match Case or not, Page Limit selection, and the field selection to give user choices sorting the recordset based on the certain field and the certain sort type. Read more…

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How to Prevent Displaying SQL Error Message in Pods CMS

September 25th, 2009 Masino Sinaga No comments

I have been running Pods CMS version 1.7.3 on this blog. So far so good, until I found a SQL error if the pg parameter in URL assigned with invalid value. For example, the proper value should be 1, 2, and so on, then you assign this parameter with non-numerical value, such as aa, etc. The message error that shown up contains of the MySQL Query including the table name. In my humble opinion, this error message should not be displayed on the client’s browser page for the security reason. So, I made modification to prevent displaying this SQL Error Message on functions.php file of this Pods CMS. Read more…

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Improving Pagination Feature in Pods CMS of WordPress

September 24th, 2009 Masino Sinaga No comments

Today I saw an improvement about Styling the paging feature created by nikos in Pods CMS Forums. It was an interesting improvement, indeed. Then I applied it on my blog here. I also added the 2 additional links: Previous and Next on the pagination feature, by modifying the pagination_2.php and Pod.class.php file. Read more…

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How to Add Custom Record Number in Table List of PodPages

September 21st, 2009 Masino Sinaga 1 comment

I have just found the way how to add custom record number in the table list of PodPages in WordPress Pods CMS plugin. I optimize the PodPages feature for this purpose by using Bypassing Templates technique. Currently, up to Pods CMS version 1.7.3, you can only use the id field from the table as your record number column. Unfortunately, if you delete one or some of the record(s) from the table, then there will be missing number when you displaying this record number that you get from that id field. Besides that, if you search or filter the certain record, then the record number on the result will not continuously (there will be some missing number). So, here is the solution that I made to fix that problem, by adding the custom record number column based on the number of record in a page or in the table result. Read more…

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Add PageLimit as Dynamic Param on Filter Form of Pods Plugin in WordPress

September 19th, 2009 Masino Sinaga No comments

Today I started using Pods CMS plugin in this website. After visitting the official website of Pods CMS, I think this plugin indeed the best one if you want to add the customize page to your WordPress website that contains of the certain data that derived from database without having use Post or Page feature in WordPress website. I have been trying and testing this plugin, until I made a modification in order user can change the maximum record number per page on the Filter form. Read more…

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