Katrina Moody
Ryan Taylor walks you through the new Post Formats feature that was introduced with the WordPress 3.1 update.
A few months ago, I was tasked with integrating our editors’ blog, 17 Dots, into eMusic proper. Back story: eMusic has completed its transition to WordPress for 100% of our CMS needs. We are ...
Using Asides as an example, in the past, a category called Asides was created, and posts were assigned that category, and then displayed differently based on styling rules from or from in_category('asides') . With Post Formats, the new approach allows a theme to add support for a Post Format (e.g.
Slides for the presentation I gave on Post Formats at the WordPress Memphis Meetup yesterday. It was a short presentation, only about 15-20 minutes, really. Post formats simply aren't that complicated, and tend to be easy to grasp quickly.
Post Formats are a really cool feature introduced in WordPress 3.1 that give you the ability to choose the format the post will be outputted in. These "formats" typically refer to the layout of the post content as displayed by the theme on the front end.
NOTE: This is one of the best how-tos I have seen on how to fully implement styling for Post Formats!
