The next version of WordPress (3.1) is adding support for themes to use “custom post formats.” If you’re familiar with Tumblr, you will already know what these are. It’s a way of formatting a post depending on the type of content in it.
For example, all of your posts right now look the same. However, if you wanted to publish a quick link instead of a full article, then clicking the “Link” custom format would lay out your post slightly differently (e.g. perhaps no post title, author, date etc. or a different background color on it, or a link icon).
Some examples of formats would be links, videos, images, short asides, and quotes.
I’d love to get your feedback on how much you would use this if we were to add it to our themes. Would you prefer custom formatting for these types of content, or would you rather keep all of your posts looking consistent?
(Other things we’re working on at the minute are finally publishing our next theme, as well as designing the one coming after, and the long awaited style options. Would post formats come above these to you, or would you prefer them to wait to after, even if you do want them?)
