[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #14746: Post Formats

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#14746: Post Formats
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 Reporter:  ryan            |       Owner:                 
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  new            
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  3.1            
Component:  Template        |     Version:                 
 Severity:  normal          |    Keywords:  ongoing-project
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Comment(by markjaquith):

 The idea here is to standardize. Post Formats are, to start, not much more
 than a taxonomy convention with a UI wrapper. So if you have “Asides” on
 one theme, you can transport them to another theme. If people create their
 own formats, their portability will be zero, or close to zero. While this
 feature is getting started, at least, I think it makes sense to have
 requests for new formats go through core. That way we can announce new
 ones with fanfare, put them on the Codex page, and themers can update
 their themes to support them. Maybe once we’ve iterated a few times and
 have covered all the common use cases, we can make it easier to deviate.
 But to start, a managed economy will result in better standardization.

 It’s an unusual way to do things for WordPress — the difference here is
 that the main sell we’re offering is portability, and flexibility would
 hamper that goal.

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