Post Formats Explained

Comments

1. gestroud (4 comments.) says:

   11/13/2010 at 10:03 am

   I’m kind of confused how this will help the average WP user, but I’m more curious as to where it’s leading.

   Many, many moons ago, there was a plugin called Structured Blogging that allowed users to post a variety of custom posts like book or movie reviews, recipes, events, listings, transcripts, and more by using “micro content.”

   If that’s the way post formats is heading, I think it would be great for a wider group of WP users. If not, it’s still a good thing for some of the WP community.
2. BGR says:

   11/13/2010 at 10:32 am

   Thanks James for explanation.

   Is post type selected in editor on creation of post? Is it a short code? What about seo for asides or link posts, does one still need to fill out meta for custom title keywords etc and are these posts still considered pages that can be crawled for content?
   • James Huff (109 comments.) says:

     11/13/2010 at 1:28 pm

     You’ll select your post format when writing or editing a post. Here’s a preview of the interface.

     As for SEO, I think that’s going to remain in the realm of plugins and such.
     • BGR (1 comments.) says:

       11/13/2010 at 1:37 pm

       It looks like all the meta would can still be (optionally) entered like existing posts, just a particular format is selected. OK. The visual of where that takes place was very helpful.
3. Flick (28 comments.) says:

   11/13/2010 at 12:20 pm

   I like the idea of post formats although I see there is some debate on the Dev blog about whether there should be one for ‘codes’. Someone has posted a screenshot of Tumblr’s approach.

   Looking forward to the new themes that support this feature.
4. Alan Hughes (1 comments.) says:

   11/13/2010 at 1:57 pm

   I think they should prioritize making custom post types and taxonomies work better, they have so much potential but have so many quarky problems. Plus you can already create custom templates for them.
5. Mark (1 comments.) says:

   11/14/2010 at 6:12 am

   I’ve been trying to figure out an easy way of doing this on my blog to help with my tweets so, Yes – i’ll be using it lots
6. Josh says:

   11/15/2010 at 8:57 pm

   Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to have post format templates built into the core as well – this way post types wouldn’t be dependant on the theme (as much)?

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