Interfaces between Custom Fields plugins and Pods

[sc0ttkclark]

It would be interesting to build interfaces between no-ui custom fields plugins and Pods, such as:

• Create and manage fields for CMB (https://github.com/WebDevStudios/Custom-Metaboxes-and-Fields-for-WordPress)
• Create and manage fields for Custom Metadata (https://github.com/Automattic/custom-metadata)

There are others, but those might be interesting as the first two to do. We would need to make sure our interfaces filter field options to show/hide things we support, and then filter anything else that changes with each of those plugins.

Expected functionality would be:

• Pods doesn't create/handle the custom fields forms in the admin, or any default expected area, for the object types that support them (Custom Post Types, Users, Taxonomies), and instead lets the interfaced plugins do that since CMB / Custom Metadata handle their own
• You can still use all Pods functionality the same, same codebase, same API, but the added benefit is that the content admin forms are ran by those plugins
• A normal user can install these plugins, and install Pods and use it with them

I believe this is worth checking into, because people may like using those other plugins and they have no Admin UI for them, which we could fill that need/role. Also, Pods 3.0 is doing things that will speed a lot of internal things up, so you may have difficulty seeing the footprint of Pods running to manage your content types and fields for one of those plugins, than doing it all by hand via code registration.

[jtsternberg]

:+1: Though CMB isn't (yet) a plugin.. Would not be hard to maintain a WP plugin fork of the project. and may even be the better way to handle upgrades in the future.. hmmm...

[sc0ttkclark]

I'm also interested in seeing what it might take to make interfaces for managing Content Types / Custom Fields for Piklist or Sunrise too. I think maybe a slimmed down version of Pods could do it, but I'd like to see first if enough of Pods can be segmented in such a way that any of these ideas would be possible.