[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #19570: Post Formats: admin UI + fallbacks for themes that don't support them

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#19570: Post Formats: admin UI + fallbacks for themes that don't support them
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 Reporter:  alexkingorg     |       Owner:
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  3.6
Component:  Editor          |     Version:  3.3
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch     |
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Comment (by alexkingorg):

 The situation that needs to be addressed is the following:

 1. user installs theme that supports new formats data and creates posts on
 their site with various formats - populating the new formats data
 2. user decides to switch to a theme that doesn't support the new formats
 data

 In this situation, the "fallbacks" functionality (proof-of-concept plugin
 linked in the original description above) is what  would make everything
 work OK.

 WP Core can look at the declared theme support (or lack thereof) for
 formats, and it can look at the data for each post. If it sees a video URL
 in the format meta field and the current theme doesn't declare support for
 the video post format, then it can be automatically pre-pended to the
 content.

 This is the only edge case where things get tricky, but I think that a set
 of sane fallbacks mitigate the problem pretty efficiently.

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