Post Format Icons in WP 5.X

Post formats are a function of the theme and are generally no longer around.

Most themes stopped supporting post formats when the new editor was introduced, since it offered far more customization options: https://www.ads-software.com/support/article/wordpress-editor/

Some themes did move their post format controls to the new editor, other themes chose not to and simply removed them from the interface (or left them in the Classic Editor, where you’d need to use the Classic Editor plugin to see them).

Sorry, forgot the important part.

If you ever used post formats, and your theme properly implemented them (it didn’t build its own third-party post format system), you should still see this filter option in the Dashboard’s Posts page: https://d.pr/i/ttUv8w

Thanks for the reply!

This is how they are enabled in my theme according to this article:

Post Formats

add_theme_support( 'post-formats', array(
	'quote',
	'link',
) );

And yet I don’t seem to see the post formats dropdown either (old or new versions).

Gutenberg still supports post formats (I have the option to choose it within the new editor). I’m just lamenting the lack of icons that makes it easily obvious which kind of post is which.

Not sure if a fix is possible within the WP core, but I was able to use the Admin Columns Pro plugin to at least make the post formats visible again in the All Posts list. Just in case anyone else is having a similar problem.