How To: Enable Post Formats in WordPress

February 23, 2011 By Greg Rickaby 6 Comments

Post Formats take WordPress 3.1 to the next level as a CMS. Enabling a more “Tubmlr” like experience. Your theme MUST support Post Formats for anything “cool” to happen. Currently Twenty Ten, Genesis 1.5 and these themes really make Post Formats look cool!

Read more about Post Formats at the Codex or learn how to use post formats with Genesis Child Themes.

Step 1) Open your child theme’s functions.php or custom_functions.php

Step 2) Paste the following line:

add_theme_support('post-formats', array('aside', 'chat', 'gallery', 'image', 'link', 'quote', 'status', 'video', 'audio'));

Step 3) Save.

After activating Post Formats, you'll see the list on the Add Post page

Now, we have can start having fun inside the loop:

if ( has_post_format( 'video' )) {
  echo 'this is the video format';
}

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