[wp-hackers] Post Formats: Conventions/Standards for Content/Layout/Style

[Dougal Campbell]

On Jan 11 2011 12:05 PM, Chip Bennett wrote:
> What conventions/standards exist, or are people beginning to assume, with
> respect to each of the Post Format types? The Codex sheds some, albeit
> little, light on the
> matter<http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Formats#Supported_Formats>
> :

My understanding is that the descriptions on the Codex page are merely 
suggestions (in fact, I did some minor edits to the page a few days ago 
to make that a little more clear). While I don't have any particular 
advice, I did use the ideas there about the Link format when I was 
setting up the WordPreh site.

In particular, I created a custom function to extract the first link out 
of the content, and consider that "the" link for the post. It will look 
for either a URL on a line by itself, or the first <a href="..."> in the 
content. In our particular case, we make the post title on the homepage 
link to "the" URL for a Link-formatted article.

When I get a chance to write it up, I'll share the code for the function.

As for the rest of the Format types, the visual presentation, and how to 
actually provide the content, is really going to be up to the themer. 
I'm sure that there will be themes that expect different markup for 
chats, etc.

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