This presentation was given at the April 2011 WordPress meetup in Melbourne, Australia by Anthony Cole

1. POST FORMATS
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Anthony Cole | @anthonycole

2. BUT FIRST....
• The first WordPress hacknight evar
• May 14th, from 6PM onwards
• Someform of Pizza, Energy Drinks, and WordPress
Cupcakes provided
• Look at the wpmelbourne blog for more info
• <3

3. SO WTF ARE POST FORMATS?
• Post
Formats are a way of distinguishing different types of
content when you write a post!
• Think of it as something like Tumblr + WordPress themes
• Supports: asides, gallery, link, image, quote, status, video, audio,
chat
• Multiple use cases there

4. MY HEAD HURTS
• Mine does too, so let’s make this simple
• Imagine I’m going to a meeting, like the one I had this morning
• My post format is the fact that I’m going into a meeting,
therefore I’m going to wear this stupid tie.

5. HOW CAN I USE THEM?
• Your theme has to support them (see later)
•A ton of premium theme companies are starting to use
them in tumblr themes
• Duster by Automattic is the best example

6. BUT WHY NOT JUST USE
TUMBLR?
...

8. EXAMPLE

9. USE CASES
• I’m using Duster
• It’s awesome!
• Let’s have a look

10. DEVELOPERS!

11. DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS
DEVELOPERS!
• Developers are “awesome” and usually have several different ways of
doing things
• This makes things tricky to standardise on the platform
• This is the one case where I can’t say “there’s not a plugin for that”
• Imagine what would happen if people could add different formats

12. POST FORMATS VS. POST
TYPES
• We know that Post Formats are the way posts are presented
• Post Types are the actual posts
• Think
of the post type as me (A “Person”), and the post
format like what I’m wearing

13. ENABLING POST FORMATS

14. ADDING CPT SUPPORT

15. THANK YOU
• More Info: http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Formats
• Duster: http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/duster/ - also
in the theme repository (if you look)
• anthony.c.cole@gmail.com