[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #15393: Better support for portability with Post Formats

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#15393: Better support for portability with Post Formats
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 Reporter:  itsananderson  |       Owner:                 
     Type:  enhancement    |      Status:  new            
 Priority:  normal         |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Themes         |     Version:  3.1            
 Severity:  normal         |    Keywords:                 
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 The portability enhancements added by Post Formats are fairly self
 evident, but the current implementation falls a little short. Consider the
 following use case:

 User installs a theme that supports post format X. User creates one or
 more posts and selects format X for those posts. User installs and enables
 a different theme that doesn't support format X. If the user edits one of
 the posts, its format is automatically reverted back to "Default", and
 there doesn't seem to be a workaround. If the user then switches back to
 the original theme, or the new theme adds support for format X, any posts
 that have been edited will have lost their X format association.

 The enhancement I am proposing should be pretty simple. If a post is
 associated with a format that isn't currently supported, that format
 should be added to the Post Format drop-down anyway (for that post only).
 If the user edits the post and changes to a different format, the X format
 will no longer be displayed as an option, but as long as they don't do
 that, they can edit the post without reverting the post format to
 "Default".

 The following screenshot hopefully illustrates what I'm trying to explain:

 http://twitpic.com/35y9fd

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