Andrew Nacin Explains Post Formats In Detail

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1. Rev. Voodoo (4 comments.) says:

   1/28/2011 at 7:41 pm

   I don’t understand why people can’t grasp the concept I guess. The formats make perfect sense….. they shouldn’t be flexible. The portability is the key. Any developer can already add their own content. And users can hunt down themes that offer major CPT or taxonomy flexibility built in. But for the standard user looking for differentiation here, a way to display a variety of formats…. I really like the idea. Flexibility vs. standardization is tough…. I see users “messing with powers they don’t understand” so frequently in the forums. This can offer a lot of flexibility with standardization… a combo deal. I’m pretty curious how people are running with this though? I’ve read the major articles around the web. First Lisa Sabin-Wilson’s article, then the smarter post formats, and even smarter post formats articles… to try to see how I wanted to go with this. Here’s the route I took…. http://go.rvoodoo.com/WPformats

   Don’t take that as SPAM, I’m honestly trying to compare how people are working with the formats. I was concerned with maximum flexibility for child theme users in my iteration.

   end ramble….
2. Kumarsaran (1 comments.) says:

   1/29/2011 at 12:00 pm

   I may be navie, sorry about it. Pls. explain

   1. When we preserve the content in the form of why would custom format design going to bug any theme change?
   2. Post/page editor is controlled by the core rather than theme, so etc buttons not gonna harm themes.

   -kumar