Aug 13 2011

WordPress Post Formats Awesome Up Your Boring Theme | WordCamp

Published by at 7:55 am under WordPress


07.54

Ian Stewart will explain what WordPress Post Formats are and why they’re so awesome. #wcsf http://www.tonicarr.com/blog

07.57

Live blog of post formats #wcsf http://www.tonicarr.com/blog/wordpress-post-formats-awesome-up-your-boring-theme-wordcamp/ @ 9:15 pdt

08.04

This is on the presentation screen now http://bit.ly/awesome-up #wcsf

08.16

Ian Stewart works at Automattic worked on 2010 theming it is #wcsf

08.18

Post Formats #wcsf is your theme doing the same thing over and over?

08.20

Design patterns make #wordpress themes repetitive #wcsf
Did your Theme Take control of your writing?

08.20

Post Formats free you to write how you like #wcsf your content to match your design

08.23

Short post with a small title #wcsf Your blog theme is there to help you publish
Link in a side format. Breaks up the post after post monotony. He is showing Matt Mullenweig’s blog as an example.

A user with intent to publish something different.

08.27

Post Formats give you the ability to break up the content #wcsf
One line of code in functions.php
Adds a new module with buttons.

08.38

Styling Post Formats with CSS add post class #wcsf
You can give different posts custom styling, for images, quotes …

.format-aside { something: awesome;}

Creating Content Templates

Child theme can be overridden

You can enable a whole slew of templates.

content-gallery.php:

Look at his slide deck for the code http://themeshaper.com/downloads/awesome-up-your-boring-theme.pdf

08.41

Don’t confuse Custom Post types with post formats #wcsf

08.44

Don’t use post types for a publicly released theme. #wcsf
Post formats are simple and awesome. Making your wordpress theme cool
themeshaper.com @iandstewart http://bit.ly/awesome-up for the slides

08.49

Q&A – Post Formats #wcsf http://www.tonicarr.com/blog/wordpress-post-formats-awesome-up-your-boring-theme-wordcamp/

  • How do your recommend using Post Formats? – look at 2010 theme see loop.php
  • Contribute and best practices: WordPress.com they are messing around with regular expressions, think about UI for entering the information and that it is always in the content.
  • How many have used post formats? 10% of the room

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One Response to “WordPress Post Formats Awesome Up Your Boring Theme | WordCamp”

  1. Ismael Burciaga (@IsmaelBurciaga)on 13 Aug 2011 at 8:40 am

    @toniCarr post formats rock! amazing stuff for sure :) #wcsf

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