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Post Formats and StudioPress Tapestry

StudioPress has released a new theme that takes advantage of WordPress 3.1 post types. They consider Tapestry a Tumblog style theme, but I see it as simply a traditional blog theme with the added plus of post types.

I’m not going to delve into what post types are right now, except to say that different kinds of posts can have different formats. A simple example is the quote post type. It doesn’t need a lot of the extra meta data that comes with a full blown post. You’ll see an example here.

I’m testing Tapestry here at www.jeffhester.net and will be experimenting with post types. Stay tuned…

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U.S. Speed Sport Goes Live

One of my latest projects went live this weekend. U.S. Speed Sport is devoted to the memory of one of the pioneers of hot rodding, Ted McMullen and his company U.S. Speed Sport.

It’s a WordPress powered site using a custom theme I built on the Studiopress Genesis framework. Why build on the Genesis framework? Genesis provides strong search engine optimization out-of-the-box, dead-simple WordPress upgrades and a great set of core widgets. Now the client can add pages, customize menus and change images on the homepage or headers without requiring a developer.

U.S. Speed Sport also uses Gravity Forms for intelligent form design and handling, and Slickr Flickr to integrate photo galleries hosted on Flickr.

Check out U.S. Speed Sport.