Post format or custom categories?

  • Resolved phobic

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    14 years, 1 month ago

    I’ve been digging around wordpress 3.1 because I have a need to modify a theme so that the user can tick a checkbox to have their post formatted in one of two different ways – portfolio items and regular blog posts – I’d need to customize the HTML/PHP and CSS for each.

    Post formats seems like a good option because each place where the loop is run, WordPress will show the correct item in the correct format. However, it seems like post formats are only intended for minor edits, like showing a title on certain types of posts and not others.

    If anyone has any links/tutorials/advice I’d love to hear it!

    P.S. I’ve enabled post formats in my functions.php file but I’m mystified as to why loop.php contains different loops for gallery and aside display which don’t seem to work.

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  • Thread Starter phobic

    (@phobic)

    Update: I just discovered that the new version of TwentyTen included with 3.1 has some updated loops – my theme simply wasn’t utilizing the new features.

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