{"id":5851,"date":"2013-05-23T09:59:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T15:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=5851"},"modified":"2013-05-23T09:59:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T15:59:57","slug":"post-formats-and-wordpress-3-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=5851","title":{"rendered":"Post Formats and WordPress 3.6"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found some confusion an interesting discussion over on WordPress Tavern around Post Formats<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n I used post formats for a few months on WPTavern.com and I\u2019ve made a few conclusions. The first is that post formats encourage short form content. Not only is short form content easy to do, it also promotes creating a fire hose of content. The second, the majority of people were reading WPTavern.com via their favorite feedreader. Feedreaders don\u2019t display content the same as a website. Third, some of the formats I selected displayed on the home page without a post title or an ability to comment. I think this had more to do with how my theme was displaying the formats more than anything else. Last but not least, I started treating post formats as categories.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here are my thoughts and response republished:<\/p>\n

As Chip has described<\/a>, the concept of a “format” really just started as supported taxonomy to allow theme developers to apply consistent treatment across any blog (instead of one theme using post meta, one using a category, etc.).<\/p>\n

Jump forward to (the in-progress) version 3.6 of WordPress and everyone has come to the same conclusion and realized there is more nuance and potential. What if this is a video post and my theme wants the video on top of the content and her theme wants it below? Standardized meta1<\/a><\/sup> on that allows for more interesting things and the ability to solve more interesting problems.<\/p>\n

To Rob’s point<\/a>, the initial implementation was confusing, but we (Crowd Favorite<\/a>) created the FavePersonal theme and the Post Formats UI plugin<\/a> because if we standardized on meta and fields, we could do fun stuff in the loop views, single views, and feed very easily (eg: put a full width image on the single view of “Image” posts and drop the sidebar, replace the permalink in the feed with the “Link URL” a la Daring Fireball or other linkblogs, etc.).<\/p>\n

Hopefully this leads to more interesting uses of WordPress in the near future…<\/p>\n

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  1. \nI don’t think the PressThis bookmarklet has done us a good long-term service here because now some display is coupled to the_content and for others the theme itself. ↩<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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