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Hi there,
New to pods, so please bear with me.
More of a theory question, than a technical one.

I understand Pods generally, but there’s a few things I can’t get my head around.
If I set up a template for general pod pages, it works beautifully if the page uses wildcards like so: page/* .

This way, the wildcard won’t interfere with any of my other content (there’s some WP pages and other content already). However, this throws in a pesky page/ into the url.
To get the same result without the /page/, I figured using just a wildcard * for the page name would work – it does. But then every other page that already exists is assumed to be a pod page; doesn’t exist, and a 404 is shown for the content.

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So how can I (if possible) get pod pages to use a url like that without affecting other pages? … .com/myPodPage rather than having to stick in another word like so: .com/page/myPodPage

Thank you.

Harley.

[chris.pilkoMember]

@Harley:

This is what the Pages menu is for in the Pods admin area. You can create nearly any page with nearly any structure you want using these pages:
/my-pod-page (camel case isn’t recommended for URLs…)
/some-stuff/more-stuff/even-more-stuff
/detail-page/*

[GuilMember Post count: 5]

Thanks for your response Chris,

I was trying to make my ‘one-off’ pages work through a general_pages pod, so that I can use custom fields and file uploads and whatnot. If I use the pages tab for each page, I’ll need either A) a new Pod for every page, or B) hard-code the pages and not use any fields (columns).

Perhaps (and probably) I’m looking at things from the wrong angle; please let me know your thoughts.

Harley.

[chris.pilkoMember]

Harley:

I’m not really sure what you’re trying to do. Can you post some more details? I can’t envision a use where you would use Pods, but have to have a new pod for every item.

Pods real power is displaying a multitude of different items using the same structure: A portfolio, movie times, products, reviews, etc. This way you create a container (a Pod) with fields that hold your descriptive data, then create a presentation layer using pages and templates to display that information to your users.

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