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The Pods Framework is a Content Development Framework for WordPress - It lets you create and extend content types that can be used for any project. Add fields of various types we've built in, or add your own with custom inputs, you have total control.

From pods-framework·Updated June 18, 2026·View on GitHub·

**Pods is a development framework for creating, extending, managing, and deploying customized content types in WordPress.** The project is written primarily in PHP, distributed under the GNU General Public License v2.0 license, first published in 2011. It has gained significant community traction with 1,119 stars and 270 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: content-types, custom-fields, database-gui, hacktoberfest, php.

Latest release: 3.3.93.3.9 - May 20th, 2026
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Pods is a development framework for creating, extending, managing, and deploying customized content types in WordPress.

Description

Check out https://pods.io/ for our User Guide and many other resources to help you develop with Pods.

For detailed setup instructions, visit the official Documentation page.

  1. You can clone the GitHub repository: https://github.com/pods-framework/pods.git
  2. Or download it directly as a ZIP file: https://github.com/pods-framework/pods/archive/main.zip

This will download the latest stable copy of Pods Framework.

Get Support / Help

This is where we develop Pods Framework itself and should not be used for support questions. Please visit the WordPress.org support forums or join our Slack. We have a support page that outlines everything for our plugins.

Reporting Bugs

If you find an issue that you believe to be a bug, let us know.

Requirements

  • WordPress 6.8+
  • PHP 8.2+
  • MySQL 5.6+ or MariaDB 10.1+

Minimum

If you have restrictions on your server or site, these are the minimum versions that Pods will be supported to run on. Running the following minimum versions does bring with it their own risks including security and exposure to additional bugs that may have been resolved by the recommended versions above.

  • WordPress 6.3+
  • PHP 7.2+
  • MySQL 5.5+

Contributions Welcome

Anyone is welcome to contribute to Pods Framework. Please read the guidelines for contributing to this repository.

There are various ways you can contribute:

  1. Raise an Issue on GitHub
  2. Send us a Pull Request with your bug fixes and/or enhancements
  3. Translate Pods Framework into different languages via WP Translate, just sign in with your wordpress.org account and add translations where you can
  4. Provide feedback and suggestions on enhancements

Donations

We're able to focus more on Pods when we have some cash to help keep the lights on, want to help? Become a Friend of Pods!

Developer Notes

  • Stable Branch: main is the latest release
  • Release Branches: release/x.x.x holds the code we are working on for each release that is not yet complete

<em>Please submit all pull requests against the main branch.</em>

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