[wp-testers] 'link' post format

[Otto]

I think it's probably a suggestion of what the idea behind the format
type is. There's no code in core to deal with formats differently in
any real way. They're just terms in a taxonomy.

-Otto



On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Dougal Campbell <dougal at gunters.org> wrote:
> In the description for the 'link' post format in the Codex[1], it says:
>
>  "The first <a href=""> tag in the post content will be considered the
> external link for that post. Alternately, if the post consists of only a
> URL, that will be the URL and the title (post_title) will be the name."
>
> Is that just a suggestion, or do we actually have utility functions
> available to help with this? I poked around a little bit in the source,
> Codex, and Trac, but didn't spot anything.
>
> Some sort of "extract_first_link_url()" and "extract_first_link_title()"
> functions in core might be nice here. Unless the Codex quote is just a
> *suggestion* of a possible usage, in which case, does somebody have code for
> the previously mentioned functions that I can borrow? :)
>
>
>  [1] http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Formats
>
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