We are planning to build a quite big database to store data for our 5000 yearly subscribers association.
We were considering pods cms for our needs since it permits a good flexibility in building a complex website and is performance aware while managing the database.
But recently I red on the pods cms website that they’re having some funding problems, so they’re struggling reaching the 2.0 milestone.
We’re afraid that the development could stop.
On the other side we found “advanced custom fields” that also seems a good alternative. Furthermore it has a stronger business model.
So what would you suggest me to do?
2 Answers
Development of Pods 2.0 definitely won’t stop, the funding problems explained in that dev post were alluding to an upcoming announcement that we’ll be pushing some of the enterprise and “extra” functionality of Pods 2.0 into a premium version targeted towards firms with more advanced and specific needs.
On the data structure, Pods 2.0 handles post types, taxonomies, and more. It even will have a migration feature to move between different content types. You probably won’t be worse off by going with ACF right now, and eventually having to migrate to Pods, as you’ll have a solution that works well for you when you need it (now).
Even if you don’t use Pods, good luck with your project and I’m sure people would love to see the site you’re working on when it’s done if you find time to follow up with how it all worked out for you.