I think it's probably a suggestion of what the idea behind the format type is. There's no code in core to deal with formats differently in any real way. They're just terms in a taxonomy.
-Otto On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Dougal Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > In the description for the 'link' post format in the Codex[1], it says: > > "The first <a href=""> tag in the post content will be considered the > external link for that post. Alternately, if the post consists of only a > URL, that will be the URL and the title (post_title) will be the name." > > Is that just a suggestion, or do we actually have utility functions > available to help with this? I poked around a little bit in the source, > Codex, and Trac, but didn't spot anything. > > Some sort of "extract_first_link_url()" and "extract_first_link_title()" > functions in core might be nice here. Unless the Codex quote is just a > *suggestion* of a possible usage, in which case, does somebody have code for > the previously mentioned functions that I can borrow? :) > > > [1] http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Formats > > -- > Dougal Campbell <[email protected]> > http://dougal.gunters.org/ > http://twitter.com/dougal > http://twitual.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > wp-testers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers > _______________________________________________ wp-testers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
