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DavidWordP on "Increase support for post-formats in all functions that take category arguments"

DavidWordP — Sun, 19 May 2013 17:14:11 +0000

It is already there. Advanced Taxonomy queries use a new parameter to the query functions called “tax_query”. The tax_query is an array of arrays, with each array describing what you want it to match on.

$myquery['tax_query'] = array(
array(
'taxonomy' => 'category',
'terms' => array('foo'),
'field' => 'slug',
),
array(
'taxonomy' => 'post_tag',
'terms' => array('bar'),
'field' => 'slug',
),
);
query_posts($myquery);

adelval on "Increase support for post-formats in all functions that take category arguments"

adelval — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:57:48 +0000

I think post-formats can take much of the more straightforward functionality that one would traditionally obtain with either post categories or custom post types, with much less hassle. Normal editors may well forget to select the right category everytime, when that's important for functionality and not just categorization; and custom post types may for many tasks be a bit overblown and more work for the developer.

In a recent site I decided to use asides as just that, asides, to appear only in a widget in the sidebar. But then I had to exclude them from all queries except for its taxonomy and the widget query (through pre_get_posts), from next and previous links in single posts, and from link rel=next and link=prev links in the head. For the latter two tasks, I need all asides to belong to a given category to be able to use the exclude_categories arguments, and I don't trust my users to always remember to assign it.

My suggestion is twofold:
- replace category arguments in most or all functions by tax_query (at most letting legacy category arguments as shorthands and for backward compatibility)
- provide much more support (including visual support) in the core for editing various post-formats, along the lines of the CF Post Format plugin.

As I see it, post-formats are useful to separate various functionalities, not just for having different presentation styles. They are like predefined custom post types.

Tuckson on "A better approach to post formats"

Tuckson — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 06:16:59 +0000

indeed good idea. And maybe also extend to the posibility of specifying what and what not to show whit each post, like date, author, etc...?

Andrés Sanhueza on "Add a "question" post format"

Andrés Sanhueza — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 03:48:13 +0000

I still stand for this to be a "post format". I'm aware that this kind of functionality should be better handled by custom post types and plugins, yet I just want a default format is set on the core. The specific functionality is led for developers.
Tumblr does indeed consider this to be a "format" on its own, yet they call them "answer" posts. http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/custom_themes

jaumesala on "A better approach to post formats"

jaumesala — Wed, 04 May 2011 17:02:18 +0000

Amazing Idea. And I also will add the possibility to make you own post formats 'labels'.

I mean, a post format called

'Full image post with footer image description'
I think it's better than
'image'

Or
'2 column post'

Or
'Video gallery'

Or
'Image + content' is better than 'standard'
(It depends on each project)

I think we have to support this idea, and I can't belive you only have 10 votes.

davebc on "A better approach to post formats"

davebc — Wed, 04 May 2011 02:31:10 +0000

This has annoyed me too. Post formats are a great idea, but they are implemented in a terrible way for the end user. Picking a link should change the post editing UI to expose an actual link field. Selecting a quote should expose a different field or two to make it obvious how to format the post.

These features should also work in the bookmarklet. I shouldn't be forced to trudge through the full WordPress admin UI just to create a link post, which is supposed to be a fast, frictionless post type to begin with.

Let's be honest: the entire post formats idea was "inspired" by Tumblr, which has a fantastic editing interface for this both at Tumblr.com and in its bookmarklet. If you're having a hard time understanding the interface demands of post types, sign up for an account real quick (you only need to provide three pieces of information) and look.

Zane Matthew on "Add a "question" post format"

Zane Matthew — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:22:59 +0000

I think the confusion comes because post formats appear to be just a "flag", where yes you can "flag" custom styling with tags or categories or even in your template with some hackery.

Those methods are not preferred though as they are driven by the database and can change at any time.

Post formats give us themers a reliable way to target (style) specific posts.

You can't say "make a question post format", because a question is more than just a wisywig box. This would be a custom post type and tied to custom taxonomies.

For example:
register_post_type('question');
custom_taxonomies('topic');

This would create create a post type called 'Question' in the menu bar with a custom taxonomy tied to it called 'topic'. Now 'topic' isn't the same as 'category' granted you can just as easily use 'tag' and 'category'.

I've written a small plugin called TipType, which is: registers a post type, custom taxonomies and has widget support. It's very simple to write these kind of things using WordPress.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tiptype/

I can tell you a 'question' post format is a good idea, but can open up a box of worms as at my current employer will built such a thing, a "question and answer" custom cms.

ucfknight10 on "Add a "question" post format"

ucfknight10 — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:30:59 +0000

i dont think i am completely understanding why you can't just create your own post type, and program it to function as you desire. i dont think there is any difference between 'post format' and 'post type'. if you want to style a post type a specific way, that is already easily done with a template redirect, or some extra lines in your css.

Andrés Sanhueza on "Add a "question" post format"

Andrés Sanhueza — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 02:23:53 +0000

Post formats are some kind of "intra-loop" styling for a post type. If one is using many post types, is much likely because they are going to be used in different sections, different loops and notable differences between custom fields. Post formats are an easy way to give separate styles for different posts of a same post type in a loop. I suggest this as an additional post format since for the moment these aren't supposed to be extensible by the user, because they are made to be an standard between themes. The particular functionality for summiting question may not be bundled, yet it may be easily pluggable and styling a post by making it look like a question and and answer is not any more complex than the current ones for 'video', 'quote' or 'status', specially considering that at the moment post formats don't change the post UI at all, but helps the themes to style the content appropriately.

This is much like those buttons for uploading media at the top of the "content" metabox in the post panel. Technically, only one is needed, but by default 4 buttons exists (image, video, audio and other) and only the 'image' one has special features. Not sure if that's going to stay that way for much time, but that was made with the idea that since these are the most commons types of uploads, plugins can easily be plugged to these for adding additional functions, instead of adding too much proprietary additional audio and video buttons.

ucfknight10 on "Add a "question" post format"

ucfknight10 — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 01:51:25 +0000

for formspring, that is the site's purpose: to ask questions. WordPress is not that defined. doing what you want is easily doable, and not needed as a builtin post type. and theme's can add custom post types.