Title: Ambrosite Post Formats Widget
Author: ambrosite
Published: <strong>February 24, 2011</strong>
Last modified: February 14, 2012

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# Ambrosite Post Formats Widget

 By [ambrosite](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ambrosite/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/ambrosite-post-formats-widget.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ambrosite-post-formats-widget/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ambrosite-post-formats-widget/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ambrosite-post-formats-widget/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ambrosite-post-formats-widget/#developers)

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## Description

Post Formats are a theme feature introduced in WordPress version 3.1. This plugin
creates a simple widget that lets you place a list or dropdown of post formats in
your sidebar. It works much the same as the Categories widget. The Post Formats 
Widget offers the following options: set a custom widget title, set custom tooltip
text, display as a list or as a dropdown, show or hide post counts, show or hide
post format ID numbers.

**You must have at least one post assigned to a format other than ‘Standard’** in
order for this widget to display anything. Note that there is a %format variable
you can use in custom tooltip text to output the format name. Also, the format ID
refers to the term_id in the wp_terms table. You would not normally want to display
the format IDs to your site visitors, however it may be useful to know the IDs during
theme development, since Post Formats are just a specialized case of a custom taxonomy.

## Screenshots

[⌊The Post Formats archive widget⌉⌊The Post Formats archive widget⌉[

The Post Formats archive widget

## Installation

 * Upload ‘ambrosite-post-formats-widget.php’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.
 * Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
 * Use the Appearance|Widgets menu to configure the widget and add it to your sidebar.

## FAQ

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## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Ambrosite Post Formats Widget” is open source software. The following people have
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ ambrosite ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ambrosite/)

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## Changelog

#### 1.1

 * Added ‘current_format_item’ CSS class to the currently selected format (list 
   display).
 * Added ‘selected’ attribute to the currently selected format (dropdown display).
 * Changed dropdown to use permalinks instead of query strings when permalinks are
   enabled.

#### 1.0

 * Initial version.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1**
 *  Last updated **14 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.3.2**
 * Tags
 * [archives](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/archives/)[post format](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post-format/)
   [post formats](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post-formats/)[widget](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
   [widgets](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widgets/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ambrosite-post-formats-widget/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ ambrosite ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ambrosite/)

## Support

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