Nearly 150 of the themes available to WordPress.com users support post formats, which means that these themes offer a variety of post types (standard, image, gallery, video, audio, quote, and more) that display your content differently based on the format. If your theme supports post formats, you’ll see a Format module as you’re …
WP Photos is a nifty new photoblogging app for Firefox OS that works with your WordPress.com or self-hosted WordPress blog.
WP Photos is a straightforward, no-nonsense photoblogging app that streamlines your photo sharing experience. Take a picture. Add a title, caption, tags, and a short message. Then, upload it to your blog. It’s as simple as that!
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WP Photos is currently featured in the Firefox Marketplace. If you have a Firefox OS phone, we encourage you to download the app for free. We’d love for you to try it out, add photos to your blog, and tell us what you think. If you need assistance, please contact Support or send a note to [email protected].
As we discussed in the first installment of Digging in the Dashboard, WordPress.com has so many great features that it’s tough to be familiar with them all. I’m still discovering new ones myself! Let’s keep the discovery going with three more features that might be new to you. This time, …
A simple way to add visual variety to your site’s front page is to publish your content using Post Formats. Over 50 of our themes support Post Formats, which means they can display various types of content — including images, videos, quotes, links, audio, and short snippets called “asides” — with different formatting, adding subtle but nice touches to your site.
The types of Post Formats you can choose from depends on your theme. To see what Post Formats your current theme supports, go to Posts » Add New in the dashboard and look for a Format module on the right, with various options like the one below:
Using Post Formats is optional — if your theme supports them, you don’t have to use them, since the default (standard) format works well with any content you publish. Using Post Formats is also free: you don’t need to purchase the custom CSS upgrade to enable different Post Formats.
Recently, we made our top 25 themes — from popular free themes like Pilcrow, Manifest, and Bueno to premium themes such as Elemin — look even better with Post Formats. Here’s a sampling of how Post Formats look different, using the Elemin theme as an example:
Graphic icons spice up this particular theme, while other themes have different design or textual elements appropriate for their layouts. Browse the themes that support Post Formats in our Theme Showcase.
You can publish instantly using popular Post Formats right in your dashboard. Just click on “New Post” on the top right, then select one of these popular formats to publish instantly to one of your sites:
Alternatively, you can go to Posts » Add New in your dashboard to create a new post. Just select the appropriate Post Format in the Format module, and you can use the “Preview” button to view the post before publishing it.
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By: Alicia Padrón,
on 1/12/2011
If you have a blog in blogger then you can take advantage of this easy way of posting. Just send an email and voila you get an instant new post on your blog.
All of us, without exception, have done idiotic things at some point. Posters on Triond will be no exceptions. (For example, I’m sure there’s people who have posted something like: How do micro-cellular organisms reproduce?) Here are five things only and idiot would post about (Bold lines are the title, and the lines under are the description):
No.1: How to spell common three letter words
How people spell words such as ‘and’ und ‘the’
No.2: Why does cocoa contain cocoa beans?
Why it says cocoa in the ingredients.
No.3: Why are windows see-through?
There isn’t any real reason why, so why is there not just a wall?
No.4: Who is the queen?
Answers the burning question: What did he do to become so famous?
No.5: What am sky?
What the sky really am.
If you have even considered posting something like this, then you need someone to help you. (And yes, speelling mistakes are delibaret).
Don’t take this seriously, it’s just a short post for a bit of a laugh. Any comments for more idiotic posts would be welcome.
And no, I haven’t learned these from experience.
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By: April Henry,
on 11/13/2007
According to an article in the New York Times, these anonymous superheros walk the streets of New York:
- Street Hero, a former prostitute, knows martial arts and takes to the city’s underbelly to protect women who work the streets. Her uniform includes a black eye mask, a black bustier and black knee-high boots.
- Direction Man prefers helping lost tourists and locals. He wears a bright orange vest, a pair of thick black goggles and has numerous maps spilling from his pockets.
- Red Justice, a substitute teacher from Woodside, Queens, who wears red boxer briefs over jeans, a red cape made from an old T-shirt and a sock with eyeholes to mask his identity. He trolls the subways encouraging young people to give their seats to those who need them more.
I could be Misplaced Apostrophe Woman.
What would you be?
I use quotes for other purposes too. Sometimes I’ll write a “blogger’s note” at the end of a post and use the quote function to show the break between post content and my extra commentary. This often happens when I switch from humor to seriousness.
I’ve also done dialogue with quote boxes: two characters receive a new quote box when they start a new speaking turn. And then I give each character their own text color.
And, of course, the differently-colored quote box breaks up large and imposing chunks of text just like a picture does.
Vertigo is one of my favorite movies and I never knew the theme could make quotes look so distinctive. That might be worth a switch. Just curious who gets to name these things?
Why are the quotation marks at the beginning pointing the wrong way?
As usual thanks for sharing! Post format feature is great, especially if you are using it to showcase images and galleries. It depends a lot on themes and how they implement on them.
In Tonal, Quadra, and Writr, those quote marks you see on the left are the format icons — graphic/design elements of the theme — rather than the actual opening quotation marks of the passage themselves.
I think designers get to name their own themes (or perhaps a collaborative effort from the design team).
On TwentyThirteen I like trying out the different post formats when I’m planning a post. Sometimes I’ve used a video post format even if I’m not posting a video – just because it has a different colour background that I think goes with my post and adding variation to my blog.
Great post! Thanks for making the information easy to understand. We might have to try a bit more creativity with our site in the future!
This is a well-timed post because I’m in the middle of drafting up a post with several quotes embedded within the text. Might anyone have suggestions on how to create a post with about a half dozen quotes? I was hoping to have them in text boxes to help differentiate them from my own text that supports the quotes.
I’m using the Suits theme, which supports quotes, but it looks like the quote option places a single quote at the top of the post? I have been adding coding in so that I get the look I’m aiming for, but it’s a bit time consuming.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thank you so much guys and gals :)
Love these ongoing help posts! What an unexpected pleasure. I had no idea how much I was really going to get into when my friend insisted I try a blog. I signed onto the idea of a place to throw long thoughts now and then. but WP has become so, so much more. Thanks so much!
I smiled when I saw this post!
For quite some time, I’ve been searching for a theme that fulfilled all my criteria [or at least, most] or them. I definitely wanted it to support post formats, preferably all of them. Found it very tiresome, and time consuming, to go through them all, to see what formats the theme in question supported.
Late last night I found the LIST [the one you linked to in the beginning of the post] in the WordPress support section!!! Which theme supports what! :D I’m happy now to finally have found a theme that I really like.