{"id":202,"date":"2017-05-07T19:39:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themedemos.webmandesign.eu\/icelander\/?p=202"},"modified":"2023-12-23T02:22:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T02:22:30","slug":"post-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifadishop.gr\/en\/post-1\/","title":{"rendered":"No post formats, how come?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What is a post format?<\/h2>\n<p>A post format is used by a theme for presenting posts in a certain format and style, such as &#8220;standard&#8221;, &#8220;image&#8221;, &#8220;gallery&#8221; &#8220;audio&#8221;, &#8220;video&#8221;, &#8220;quote&#8221;, &#8220;status&#8221;, &#8220;aside&#8221;, &#8220;link&#8221; and\/or a &#8220;chat&#8221; post.\u00a0You can actually read thorough <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.wordpress.org\/themes\/functionality\/post-formats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">explanation of\u00a0post formats<\/a>\u00a0on WordPress codex pages. (Post formats should not be confused with <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.wordpress.org\/themes\/basics\/post-types\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">post types<\/a>!)<\/p>\n<h3>There is a problem, though<\/h3>\n<p>Post formats styling and support is left solely for a theme you are using. And <strong>there is no standardized way of displaying post formats<\/strong>. So, this can change from theme to theme:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>one theme can only distinguish post formats simply with an icon,<\/li>\n<li>the other\u00a0one goes further by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmandesign.eu\/project-tag\/post-formats-compatible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">displaying actual format media<\/a> and\/or text automatically, taken from post content,<\/li>\n<li>another\u00a0theme may even require setting up a special post custom field to display post format media,<\/li>\n<li>yet another theme may not support all post formats, just a few of them\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This means that post formats are <strong>not very future-proof<\/strong> and are actually <strong>quite confusing<\/strong> to a lot of WordPress users to set up, and to your website visitors due to display inconsistency.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, a\u00a0standard post can also be any of the other post formats as well. It can have a gallery or a video, for example. Most users simply ignore post formats because of these decision complications.<\/p>\n<div class=\"outdent-content\">\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"birds 1920x451\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-88\" src=\"https:\/\/themedemos.webmandesign.eu\/icelander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/SAMPLE\/_birds-1920x451.jpg\" alt=\"Flying birds\" width=\"1200\" height=\"282\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Why this theme doesn&#8217;t support\u00a0post formats?<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"pullquote alignright\"><p>WebMan Design themes are built for ease of use, reducing decision pressure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>WebMan Design themes are not cluttered with redundant options that might only confuse users or create unnecessary decision pressure on them.<\/p>\n<p>This theme is also not primarily a blog theme, but rather a business one, so, introducing the\u00a0support for post formats is very questionable and thus it was removed to make things simpler and help you <span title=\"As they say: Content is the king!\">focus on the most important thing of your website: the actual content<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h3>But, I may want to use them in the future\u2026<\/h3>\n<p>Well, you can still reintroduce the <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.wordpress.org\/themes\/functionality\/post-formats\/#formats-in-a-child-theme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">post formats compatibility in your child theme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively\u00a0you may <em>use post tags<\/em>: simply tag all your (to-be-)video format posts with a <em>&#8220;Video&#8221;<\/em> tag, for example. Then, if you decide to use a theme with post formats supports in the future, you can easily convert all the posts marked with <em>&#8220;Video&#8221;<\/em> tag to a video format using WordPress posts bulk edit.<\/p>\n<p>Surely, the <strong>child theme solution is preferable<\/strong>\u00a0as it will prepare your posts much more elegantly, although it is also more technically challenging solution as you have to dive into coding a bit.<\/p>\n<h3>And what if I already used post formats previously?<\/h3>\n<p>If you used post formats previously on your WordPress website and switched to a theme that does not support them, your <em>posts will simply display as standard posts<\/em>. To retain the ability to assign a post format for any new post, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.wordpress.org\/themes\/functionality\/post-formats\/#formats-in-a-child-theme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">declare the support in a child theme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>In my opinion, post formats are <strong>not suited for business websites<\/strong>\u00a0(but <em>may be<\/em> suited for blogs). That&#8217;s why this theme does not support them to prevent user confusion.<br \/>\nIf you still need to use post formats, <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.wordpress.org\/themes\/functionality\/post-formats\/#formats-in-a-child-theme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">declare the compatibility<\/a> in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmandesign.eu\/manual\/icelander\/#child-theme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">child theme<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\n<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nWhy this theme doesn&#8217;t support post formats? And what are post formats anyway? Find out more in this article!\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ifadishop.gr\/en\/post-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;No post formats, how come?&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ifadishop.gr\/en\/post-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;No post formats, how come?&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifadishop.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifadishop.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifadishop.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifadishop.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifadishop.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ifadishop.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7825,"href":"https:\/\/ifadishop.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/7825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifadishop.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifadishop.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifadishop.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifadishop.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}