Unleash the creativity of your content
| Author: | TomHarrigan (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 3.1 |
| WordPress version tested: | 4.1 |
| Plugin version: | 2.0.1 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 28-05-2014 |
| Last updated: | 07-01-2015
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Rating, %: | 100 |
| Rated by: | 1 |
| Plugin URI: | http://thomasharrigan.com/mcninja-post-styles |
| Total downloads: | 3 759 |
| Active installs: | 30+ |
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Go to the homepage or blog page of a site, chances are, all of the posts look similar: A title, an excerpt and a featured image. Why not display the most important part of your posts to readers and actually give them a reason to click on your post a read it? That's what this plugin does.
To enable Post Style formatting functionality, go to Settings->Reading and select "Enable Post Style formatting."
McNinja Post Styles is what we always wanted Post Formats to be: powerful, flexible and extendable. Unleash the creativity of your content.
McNinja Post Styles can display content based on the Post Style of a post. For example, if your post has a video in it and you've selected the 'Video' style, your blog page, category pages, etc. will display that video rather than an excerpt.
Post Styles can be selected for a Post from the 'Edit Post' screen.
For more information or to follow the project, check out the project page.
McNinja Post Styles...
- Allows authors to choose how to display a Post
- Supports all of the formats added by Post Formats (aside, gallery, link, image, quote, status, video, audio, chat) so that if your theme made use of Post Formats, the same templates can be used.
Screenshots
Example of posts utlizing Post Styles with 'video', 'image', and 'standard' post styles.
A post excerpt using the Gallery post style
A post excerpt using the Playlist post style
A post excerpt using the List post style
A post excerpt using the Video post style
A post excerpt using the Embed post style
A post excerpt using the Quote post style
The metabox added to the Post Edit screen
Option on Settings -> Reading screen to enable Post Style formatting
How do I make use of Post Styles?
Simply go to Settings->Reading and select “Enable Post Style formatting”, save your changes, and you’re ready to roll!
How do I use Post Styles to display custom theme templates I’ve created?
In your loop or other area in which displaying a content template, change your get_template_part call to the following:
get_template_part( ‘content’, get_post_style() );
get_post_style() will return the slug of the selected post style, for example, if a post is using the ‘image’ Post Style, then get_template_part will be looking to use content-image.php to display the post.
What template will be used if the ‘Standard’ post style (default) is selected?
By default, it will look for content-post.php, if there is no content-post.php, it will use content.php
How do I add CSS to a specific Post Style?
Posts will have a class associated with their style. The class name is in the form of ‘post-style-(slug-name)’, so a post using ‘image’ can be targeted with the ‘.post-style-image’ class.
How do I add a new Post Style?
The ‘post_style_strings’ filter allows you to add new styles. It provides an array of Post Styles and you can add your new post style. The example below adds a new post style named ‘Golden Unicorn’, with a slug ‘golden-unicorn’.
function my_new_custom_post_style( $strings ) {
$strings[‘golden-unicorn’] = _x( ‘Golden Unicorn’, ‘Post style’ );
return $strings;
}
add_filter( ‘post_style_strings’, ‘my_new_custom_post_style’);
Why aren’t there template files?
This plugin provides the mechanism for allowing custom post formats. It is basically a glorified taxonomy. It is up to themes and developers to utlize this. I’ll be writing some tutorials and examples on my blog shortly though. Feel free to shoot me an email or contact me in the meantime.
ChangeLog
2.0.1
- Add content formatting for Image post style
- Documentation update
2.0
- Add content formatting based on Post Style
- Add option in Settings -> Reading to enable Post Style formatting
- Add “Embed” Post Style
- Add “Chat” Post Style
- Add “Playlist” Post Style
1.1
- Expose get_post_style_link() function
- Expose get_post_style_string() function
- i18n support: add .pot file and make strings translateable
- Add backwards compatibility with post-format CSS classes for themes already implementing post formats
1.0
