In > Search Appearance > Taxonomies, What is ‘Format’ for?

Post Formats is a theme feature introduced with Version 3.1. A Post Format is a piece of meta information that can be used by a theme to customize its presentation of a post. The Post Formats feature provides a standardized list of formats that are available to all themes that support the feature. Themes are not required to support every format on the list. New formats cannot be introduced by themes or even plugins. The standardization of this list provides both compatibility between numerous themes and an avenue for external blogging tools to access this feature in a consistent fashion.

If you disable post format in Yoast SEO, it won’t exclude the post from the XML sitemap.

Thanks Md.
I’m afraid I sometimes need example visuals so I can see what something actually does.

So I still have no idea what it means or looks like.

But it’s good to know that it doesn’t affect the sitemap——and presumably the SEO?
John

Hi John,

Please note that Post formats are WordPress specific, they are not a feature part of Yoast SEO.

You can see the post format option when editing a post, on the right sidebar: https://i.imgur.com/7lfP8al.png

If you’d like to learn more about Post Formats, we’d recommend this guide.

Hi Marius,
I’ll read up on Formats to see what they’re for.

Thanks for the links and the help,
John