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

[Dion Hulse (dd32)]

For the aside, I would expect it to be a short post without a title, ie. not
a status ("I'm doing such and such") but rather a quick post ("Went to
restauraunt xx and found their food to be wonderful, blahblahblahblah, and
ends up being about a paragraph long")

I would expect asides, status, and link to probably not have a title, whilst
a chat and quote *might* have a title, the rest having titles.

I'm looking at it from the perspective of "What needs to be titled? My
status update titles itself, A gallery needs a description, and a gallery
name, A chat conversation probably needs metadata, such as when it took
place and where, which basically makes a title.."
You might like to look at existing themes which do asides, for example, how
twentyten and Matt use it: http://ma.tt/


On 11 January 2011 12:05, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> 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>
> :
>
>
>   - *aside* - Typically styled without a title. Similar to a Facebook note
>   update.
>   - *gallery* - A gallery of images. Post will likely contain a gallery
>   shortcode and will have image attachments.
>   - *link* - A link to another site. Themes may wish to use the first <a
>   href=””> tag in the post content as the external link for that post. An
>   alternative approach could be if the post consists only of a URL, then
> that
>   will be the URL and the title (post_title) will be the name attached to
> the
>   anchor for it.
>   - *image* - A single image. The first <img /> tag in the post could be
>   considered the image. Alternatively, if the post consists only of a URL,
>   that will be the image URL and the title of the post (post_title) will be
>   the title attribute for the image.
>   - *quote* - A quotation. Probably will contain a blockquote holding the
>   quote content. Alternatively, the quote may be just the content, with the
>   source/author being the title.
>   - *status* - A short status update, similar to a Twitter status update.
>   - *video* - A single video. The first <video /> tag or object/embed in
>   the post content could be considered the video. Alternatively, if the
> post
>   consists only of a URL, that will be the video URL. May also contain the
>   video as an attachment to the post, if video support is enabled on the
> blog
>   (like via a plugin).
>   - *audio* - An audio file. Could be used for Podcasting.
>   - *chat* - A chat transcript, like so:
>
> John: foo
> Mary: bar
> John: foo 2
>
>
> To my reading, there are more questions than there are answers in that
> information.
>
> For Gallery, Link, Image, Video, and Audio: will these types be expected to
> have *only* the specified content, and no other content?
>
> Aside: to me, a "Facebook note update" is equivalent to a blog post.
> (Perhaps that's merely due to the way that I use Facebook notes?) I think
> of
> an "aside" more of a "pullquote" or longer-than-microblog (i.e. "status")
> comment or thought. Nevertheless, we have one bit of useful information
> regarding convention: no Title.
>
> Chat: this one baffles me. A chat is going to require some specific markup
> other than the post-format designation (e.g. a table, or specific CSS
> classes applied to specific parts of the content), which somewhat precludes
> the need for a Post Format type. Regardless: are there any conventions for
> the underlying markup/format for chats?
>
> Which Post Format types will be expected not to have titles? Just Aside and
> Status?
>
> What other layout and/or style conventions, if any, are people applying to
> each of the Post Format types?
>
> Chip
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