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WordPressPost Formats
What, When, How
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What are Post Formats?
• Post Formats are a new(ish) method of designating content types in posts
• Image
• Gallery
• Status
• Aside
• Link
• etc
codex.wordpress.org/Post_Formats
When to use Formats?
• The best time to use post formats is when both:
a. your theme supports them
b. you intend to share useful content in smaller (more manageable?) chunks, rather than always using long-form
How can you use them?
1. Find a theme that supports Post Formats well, or modify your theme to support them.
2. Assign formats to your posts.
Step 2 is easy!
Choose the format that matches your post
(as you would any categories or tags)
Step 1 is slightly harder
• Trial & error
• Test themes to see how they display different post formats (and if they display them differently at all)
• OR Build your own child theme to display post formats how you want to
NB Theme Unit Test is useful either way
Theme testingJust because a theme says it supports
post formats doesn’t mean it does anything with them!
The following themes, except Genesis, are all freely available
from the WordPress theme respository
Twenty Thirteen
Different colours Icons & borders Colours & meta
Icon & formatting Featured image ↑ title Featured image hidden
No page templates!
Esquire
No gallery title Epic image border Big link title
Bright quote No featured images Not responsive
Hum
Format labels 1 gallery image + number Quote typography
Simple link Image display Not all formats labelled
Pachyderm
Cute format icons... in a range of colours... for all tested formats!
Cute featured images(not on single posts) Attention to detail Clever sidebar
Path
No title for short formats Title links to Link Smooth quotes
Gallery “excerpt” Status avatar Nicely responsive
Preference Lite
Gallery with feature Subtle Aside label Duplicate images?!
Link is okay Status: avatar, butprominent titleQuote is nice, but out of flow
Expound•Not much different for post formats ✘
•Asides don’t show title is the only change•Nice featured image thumbnail display•Responsive ✔
Genesis•Post Format icons hook ✔•No default featured image display•No default post format display variations
Living Journal•No titles for image & quote formats•Featured image thumbnails, not on singles•No featured image for image format ✔
Matala•Featured image thumbnails show for image formats too ✘•Cool post format icons next to title ✔•Not resposive
Montezuma•Nothing different for post formats•but simple enough design to suit formats•Nice featured images, not on singles
Vertigo•Nifty audio & video format styles
•Cassette tape & video projector rolling! ✔•Link formats break PHP ✘
Else, make a child theme
• codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
• Content templates
• Understanding get_template_part
• Create required template parts: content-{post format name}.php
• Add needed CSS styles
• Framework hooks & actions