[wp-hackers] post format types

[Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)]

> No, you can not create custom Post Formats. Giving theme the ability
> to make their own post formats would defeat the whole purpose of post
> formats.

I disagree, if the fallback of post_format_exists brought it to standard or 
empty on non-designed themes with it.  The first thought I had when I heard 
about this was "cool, I can have each author have their own "post look"" 
that they can set.  I'm just a theme designer that has to work within the 
'confines' of code.  This implementation is very confining.  Not that i'm 
saying it's bad, it's not bad it's just not implemented in a way that I 
thought it would be.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Otto" <otto at ottodestruct.com>
To: <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] post format types


> No, you can not create custom Post Formats. Giving theme the ability
> to make their own post formats would defeat the whole purpose of post
> formats.
>
> If you want to make your own post formats, then:
> a) Roll your own taxonomy to do it (like mytheme-formats), and
> b) Don't support the normal post formats (thus not giving two format
> choices to your users).
>
> That way, you can have your own meta box for users to choose from your
> theme's post formats and there's no confusion. You get full
> customizability.
>
> Of course, if you do this, then people using your theme won't have
> post formats that are compatible with every other theme. But then that
> would be the case with any implementation of a "custom post format" as
> well, since other themes wouldn't necessarily support your post
> formats there either. The roll-your-own-taxo method is a lot clearer
> about it though.
>
> Note that any theme could have rolled their own post-formats with a
> custom taxonomy at any time prior to core post-format support. None
> did. Why? Because without a standard set to choose from, nobody would
> have been compatible with anybody else. Compatibility amongst themes
> is the reason for post-formats, and the reason you don't want to have
> custom ones.
>
> -Otto
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)
> <philip at frumph.net> wrote:
>> I just found and read the codex on Post_Formats
>>
>> http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Formats
>>
>> The issue i'm having is that it's saying that *those* post format types 
>> are the only ones that are available to be used.
>>
>> I was under the impression that we could create our own post format types 
>> that have the post look that we want to have, not limited to these 
>> options.
>>
>> Is this true?
>>
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