WordPress and Microformats: Past, Present, Future

Tantek Çelik

What are microformats?

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• demos: contact info, Operator, nearby coffee, BarCamps

WordPress and microformats: the past

• 2003: GMPG and XFN introduced
• 2004: XFN 1.1 support added to WordPress
• 2005: rel-tag plugin released

WordPress and microformats: the present

• built-in support
  • Link Manager supports XFN (demo)
  • Category feature supports rel-tag
• themes
• plugins
• plugins for plugins!

WordPress and microformats: the future

• semantic publishing
  • people marked up from Link Manager, Address Book
  • events from your Calendar
• social network hub
  • BuddyPress
• personal hub
  • profile syndication
  • DiSo (search demo)
• Join the conversation: microformats.org/wiki/irc

Thanks!

• microformats.org