[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #32844: Remove Post Formats and make them an optional plugin like Links

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#32844: Remove Post Formats and make them an optional plugin like Links
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 Reporter:  mor10         |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Post Formats  |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                |     Focuses:
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Comment (by helen):

 I am having some serious 3.6 déjà vu here, except I know we haven't gone
 back in time because I am no longer pregnant and there is a toddler
 yelling something about Thomas the Tank Engine at me. :) Here is some more
 of that painful history - I could probably enumerate more specifics at
 some point, just perhaps not today. My biggest takeaway from having served
 as the feature lead was that handling existing content is hard, and we're
 backed into a corner because different data formats have proliferated and
 meta is not the same as content.

 * Original tickets (a selection): #19570, #23347, #24010, #24046.
 * Removal post and ticket: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/05/29
 /post-formats-ui-is-exiting-core-will-live-as-a-plugin/, #24452
 * Make/Core updates about post formats, including the vast majority of the
 discussions around topics that have started to be rehashed on this ticket,
 such as what data needs are: https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/post-
 formats/

 I don't think we should pull post formats (as in the taxonomy) from core.
 I think experiments around them could be done in plugins, with the warning
 that storing into meta is probably not a good route and that existing
 content must be considered, as well as migration paths for those who
 currently use plugins/themes that store into meta. This may include things
 like auto-detection in Press This, modular content building, creation-only
 UI affordances, and so forth.

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