Post Type?

How do I set the Type (photo, normal, aside, etc) for a new post?

You mean the post format? That’s a theme-specific thing. What theme are you using?

it’s called “Red Christmas”.

yeah, post format.

that’s a theme-specific thing? i didn’t know themes could affect the back-end.

i did recently switch to this theme, so maybe that’s what’s happening.

Post formats haven’t had much traction. I think they just confused people and not many authors implemented them.

yep. that was it. thanks!

i got it working. added :

add_theme_support( 'post-formats', array(
		'aside'
	) );

to the theme’s setup and now it’s working like i want.

i’ve tweaked things so that ‘aside’ posts only show in a custom side-bar widget. i use it for posting links that i want to share but don’t really have any comment on.

cool