Formatos de entradas es una de las características más interesantes que vienen en WordPress 3.1. Pero la mayoría de los principiantes no tienen ni idea de qué son los formatos de entradas, por qué deberían importarte y cómo puedes aprovechar esta impresionante característica. Bueno, después de pasar por la versión alfa de WordPress 3.1, hemos decidido explicar el qué, el por qué y el cómo de la característica de formatos de entrada que viene con WordPress 3.1.
¿Qué son los formatos de entrada?
Los Formatos de Entrada son meta información que puede ser usada por temas para personalizar la presentación de una entrada. Ok, ahora en el formato de post Inglés llano son un método de estilo de una entrada específica. Mediante esta característica, puede especificar el “formato” de visualización de una entrada específica. Esta característica amplía el aspecto de micro-blogging de WordPress, porque ahora usted puede tener videos, enlaces, imágenes, audios, citas, estados, etc, todo en un solo lugar, y la mejor parte es que van a tener el estilo correspondiente.
Ejemplos de uso
Echemos un vistazo al blog oficial de Digging into WordPress. Tienen dos tipos de estilos de entradas en la página de inicio. Uno es una entrada completa que muestra un extracto, como cualquier otro blog. Pero lo que es interesante es que tienen un estilo específico de una entrada que son enlaces externos a otras entradas del blog que encuentran útiles para sus lectores.
Bloguear consiste en compartir recursos, y a menudo se da el caso de que el blogger quiere simplemente enlazar a un recurso externo porque lo encuentra útil para sus lectores. El principal problema al que se enfrentan es que tienen que crear una nueva entrada para indicar a los lectores que vayan a otro sitio. Esto crea confusión en el usuario final porque no sabe de qué tipo de entrada se trata. A menudo, el usuario tiene que hacer clic en la vista completa de la entrada sólo para descubrir que el autor quiere que vean un enlace externo. Aunque existen trucos como éste, que permite enlazar a enlaces externos desde los títulos de las entradas, este problema de formato de entradas lo corregirá todo. Los diseñadores de temas pueden estilizar los “formatos de enlace” para que se muestren de una manera diferente como Jeff Starr ha hecho para Digging into WordPress.
La potencia de esta característica es demasiado para describirla. Porque ahora puedes escribir entradas de estado cortas como lo harías en Twitter, y tener un estilo diferente sin hacer demasiado trabajo. Si has encontrado una cita / presupuesto que te gusta, puedes compartirla y hacer que destaque con un solo clic. En resumen, la característica “formatos de entradas” hará de WordPress una plataforma de blogs más completa.
¿Por qué utilizar los formatos de entradas?
Los formatos de entrada reemplazan la necesidad de usar categorías para lograr características de estilo similares. Hasta ahora, los desarrolladores hackeaban las categorías de WordPress para conseguir este efecto, lo que acababa creando mucho desorden y confusión para los nuevos bloggers. El uso de formatos de entrada no solo reducirá el desorden en términos de categorías, sino que hará que tu blog sea portable entre temas compatibles con esos formatos.
También facilitará el uso del blog a los lectores, que sabrán exactamente qué tipo de entrada están viendo. Además, hará que tu blog sea más animado, ya que tendrás diferentes estilos de entradas en la página de tu blog. En la actualidad, la mayoría de las entradas de blog tienen un aspecto muy aburrido porque todas son iguales. Los formatos de entradas llenarán un vacío muy necesario en los sitios que funcionan con WordPress.
Cómo añadir y utilizar formatos de entradas en WordPress 3.1
Al igual que las miniaturas de entradas, los menús, los fondos personalizados y las cabeceras personalizadas, los formatos de entradas también serán una característica activada por tema. Esto significa que esta característica solo estará disponible si tu tema es compatible.
Advertencia: Usted debe tener una comprensión justa de HTML, CSS, y las funciones del bucle de WordPress para seguir este tutorial.
Para activar los “formatos de entradas” en WordPress 3.1, necesitarás abrir el archivo functions. php de tu tema y pegar el siguiente código:
add_theme_support( 'post-formats', array( 'aside', 'gallery' ) );
Nota: minientrada, y galería no son los solos formatos de entradas disponibles. La lista de formatos de entradas disponibles son:
- minientrada – Normalmente sin título. Similar a una actualización de estado de Facebook.
- chat – Transcripción de un chat.
- galería – Galería de imágenes.
- enlace – Un enlace a otro sitio.
- imagen – Una sola imagen.
- cita – Un presupuesto.
- estado – Actualización de estado breve, normalmente limitada a 140 caracteres. Similar a una actualización de estado de Twitter.
- vídeo – Un único vídeo.
Para ver la lista completa de formatos de entradas, consulte el Códice de WordPress.
Una vez que haya añadido este código, verá un nuevo campo en su panel de escritura de entradas en la columna de la derecha donde se ve publicar.
Al escribir la entrada, puedes cambiar el formato y pulsar publicar. Esto le permitirá mostrar su entrada en un formato pre-estilizado.
Pero espera, todavía no hemos especificado estos formatos de entradas pre-estilizados en ninguna parte de nuestro tema. Así que ahora mismo, incluso si seleccionas el formato en tu panel de entradas de WordPress, no habrá ninguna diferencia porque tu tema no sabe cómo mostrarlo. Para ello, tendremos que editar nuestro bucle de entrada.
Vamos a utilizar la etiqueta condicional: has_post_format()
if ( has_post_format( 'aside' )) {
// code to display the aside format post here
} else if (has_post_format('gallery')) {
// stuff to display the gallery format post here
} else if (has_post_format('link')) {
// stuff to display the link format post here
}else {
// code to display the normal format post here
}
¿A qué estás esperando? Empieza a prepararte para esta impresionante característica. Solo podemos imaginar que WordPress se utilizará cada vez más como plataforma de microblogging con los nuevos temas que saldrán utilizando esta característica.
Lecturas adicionales:
Formatos de entradas del Codex de WordPress
Tipos de contenido y formatos y taxonomías, ¡Oh Dios!
Formatos de Entrada vs. Tipos de contenido personalizados
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Rahul says
if ( has_post_format( ‘aside’ )) {
// code to display the aside format post here
} else if (has_post_format(‘gallery’)) {
// stuff to display the gallery format post here
} else if (has_post_format(‘link’)) {
// stuff to display the link format post here
}else {
// code to display the normal format post here
}
Where do we have to add this code. Thanks in advance . Inside Index.php or somewhere else.
saurabh says
Now making categories as galleries is really simple.
Keely says
Where exactly is this chuck of code added?
I can’t find a thing about this anywhere; not being a php programmer I don’t know where to put it.
Editorial Staff says
The code shown in the post which utilizes has_post_format() is what you will put inside your loop to give each post a specific styling.
Administrador
Dave says
It looks like your code is missing a closing bracket in the first line. It currently reads:
if ( has_post_format( ‘aside’ ) {
but it should be:
if ( has_post_format( ‘aside’ )) {
Great tutorial as always.
hosseincode says
yeah, wpbeginer should have fixed this…
WPBeginner Support says
We have updated the post, thanks Dave.
Administrador
Tom says
So, OK I am still a little confused about a few concepts here…can somebody please help me out? I apologize in advance for the crazy length of this post but I am new to WP
I understand the concept of posts, pages, categories and tags – that’s easy.
As I now understand, the new feature of “post formats” (WP v3.1) relates to the styling of a “post” (think: “blog post”), whereas the concept of “post types” really means one of the five default WP “content types” (post, page, attachment, revisions, nav menus – see (http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types).
Likewise, the new feature of “custom post types” (WP v3.0) relates to creating *new* “post types” (outside of posts, pages, etc.), what ever that might be.
WOW…that sounds understandable in…t h e o r y.
OK, I DO get the new “post format” in theory…but I am a visual type of learner, so I wanted to see what they could look like.
So your example of the ‘link’ “post format” post at Digwp.com was good, but I also checked out some other themes, like: http://demo.themify.me/#theme=wumblr
(side note here: confusing! – see how they refer to post formats as exactly that here: http://themify.me/themes/wumblr > Features… but at the top of that same page they call them “post types”).
Anyhow…before I get to the “post types” feature of WP, I have a few questions about the “post formats” feature:
1. Let’s say I want to make use of new “post formats” in an existing theme; I add these 10 different post formats in WP and specify them in the theme (as per your instructions). But then what..? How does the actual *DESIGN* for each of those post formats come about on the site?
Is it likely that most theme developers (mostly for the paid-for ones) will update their themes (the coding part, plus the actual design of the “post format” part) – or should users wait for new themes to hit the market that offer this for the first time?
What about theme frameworks – do we know of any that already offer child themes with the post formats feature incorporated? Some theme frameworks allow you to create (or radically customize) your own child themes based on a basic version, with not much or no coding involved…do we know if any providers have this level of customization already implemented?
2. When I look at some of the themes that already use “post formats” (see: http://themify.me/demo/#theme=wumblr) – what I notice is that *some* of the category names of the individual post formats match the names in the list of standardized formats (see: http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Formats#Supported_Formats) – but some don’t! The following names that the Wumblr theme uses are not on that list: ‘general’ and ‘notes’- while ‘aside’ and ‘gallery’ are on the list but not chosen category names for any of Wumblr’s new format type posts. So this leads me to ask…
Compared to the usual practice of freely choosing names for categories (often for SEO purposes), what are the rules for naming categories for “post format” posts? Do they HAVE to match the names on the list of standard “post formats”? If not, how would that change the code you suggested in your article, following where you say: “We are going to be utilizing the conditional tag: has_post_format() …”? If you DID use names in that code that differ from the standardized list, would that not go against the rule of standardization and make it difficult to switch themes?
I also wonder if by categorizing “post format” type posts by choosing names like: ‘link’ or ‘status’ or ‘quote’ for instance…how can anyone expect people to actively CHOOSE to click categories with THESE names, rather than posts that typically carry category names *describing their content*!!????
With ‘video’ and ‘image’ and ‘gallery’ … I could still understand that people might actively and out of curiosity click those to be shown a list of all the posts with that type of content, but link, status, quote….?
~~So does anyone understand how all of this works?~~
So I make it VERY short with my question on “POST TYPES” or more precisely “custom post types”:
Where do THEY fit in here? I understand they are NOT the “blog post” type posts we are talking…but “custom” (=any type of content type BUT a post).
ARE there already any themes having them implemented, and if so, can someone point me to some examples?
ARE they handled by the theme or by a plugin?
Thanks for your replies!!
Tom
Editorial Staff says
Hey Tom,
Lets take a stab at your long question, one by one.
Wumblr Theme by Themify was released before WordPress 3.1 (so note, they did not have Post Formats at that time). So they called them whatever they liked, in this case post types”. Which again is a conflicting vocabulary, we recommend that it should be called Content Types because the whole idea of post types is to be NOT posts, RIGHT? Anyways so I think you are confused because of the semantics that Wumblr used. Again you mentioned later on why Wumblr has its own custom post formats rather than the supported formats. Because it was released before Post Formats were available, so they went with what they thought should be good.
You would have to specify in your theme’s CSS that if a post format “XXX” is called then add these styles. A good way to do this would be getting the themes that already support Post Formats and look how they do it. Or simply open your browser’s Source and you will see the default class that is added. Most frameworks will be compatible with Post Formats in their coming versions however not all child themes will be compatible. It is very likely that some theme developers may go back and add post formats to their old themes. But we can’t say for sure which ones will do that and which ones won’t. There are a lot of new themes that are already hitting the market. Woo Themes has some, Themify has some. StudioPress will be releasing their own very soon as well. So it is really up to you if you want to wait or not.
Your category name does not have to match post formats. Post Formats, and categories are two separate taxonomies. You are free to name your category whatever you like.
Custom Post (Content) Types and Custom Post Formats are two separate beasts. One is a custom taxonomy while other is a custom content type. They serve two separate purposes. Taxonomies are to make organizing and display of content types easier. Custom Post Formats are taxonomies and Post is a content type.
Both Custom Post Types and Post Formats are handled by themes. However for Custom Post Types there are plugins that make your life easier. You can refer to our article about custom post types on this site that will show you the plugins.
Administrador
Tony says
I’ve been creating posts using custom post types when it should’be been a post format.
ms-studio says
My big question is: can we customize the write/edit page for those post types?
If yes, that would be a compelling reason to start using them immediately. Any pointers as how to do that would be appreciated, as http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_meta_box doesn’t give any clues.
If not, Custom Post Types will be much more useful.
Editorial Staff says
That page in the codex explains it all. It shows that they are adding this meta box to the custom content type “post” and “pages”… They are adding the input fields, and they are saving it. Use that information, and build on top of it.
Administrador
Connor Crosby says
If you download the WP 3.1 beta, the Twenty Ten theme supports aside and gallery.
Phaethon says
Awesome. We’ll be able to add more style hooks to the loop outside of the official WP 3.1 post types too, right?
Connor Crosby says
Do you know possibly when 3.1 might be available for the public? I was actually just looking how to create a link style like digwp.
Editorial Staff says
WordPress 3.1 is set to be launched right before the holidays so around Mid December would be a fair date.
Administrador
Dre Armeda says
You can download 3.1 Alpha via the official SVN already.
Barbara Ling says
Beyond awesome, this will be quite the killer feature indeed! Sharing this with my network this instant, thanks!
Pippin says
This is awesome. Nothing that really enhances things from a developer’s perspective, but this will be great for end users.
Bjorn van der Neut says
So if I understand correctly its a little bit the same as copy the page.php to gallery.php modify it and in the page select as template “Gallery”.
Only now its going to be not on page level but on post level?
Editorial Staff says
Yes essentially it is a method of built-in cross-compatible post templates.
Administrador
Bjorn van der Neut says
Ok thanks! I use the plugin Impact (Payed version) for this functionality right now. I am also bussy with Genesis but I did not find that option at this moment.
Editorial Staff says
This option will come available in WordPress 3.1. It is not available yet.