I’m looking for themes or examples of sites that use the post format feature in an interesting way.
I suppose adding special styling for each post format would be a good start. But if anyone knows of it being used in a cool or creative ways by a premium or free theme feel free to chime in.
Check out this post on WordCast:
WordPress Post Format Eye-Candy: Tumblr Style Theme Inspiration Showcase
Also Digging into WordPress uses them and just wrote a post about it:
Tumblr Links with Post Formats
Theme Foundry Shelf comes to mind, it got some press out of being one of the first paid themes added to WordPress.com
Well…. I use post-formats on my personal site, http://www.rvoodoo.com
More interesting though, may be the code.
http://www.rvoodoo.com/projects/wordpress/wordpress-tip-post-formats-get-template-part-loop-php-and-maximum-child-theme-compatibility/
THere were so many options, and opinions when the formats came out. If you are interested, there’s a link to my approach.
I’m currently working on a theme (to be used on my blog when it’s ready) with post formats. You can see a cropped screenshot, detailing several of the post formats here: http://i.stack.imgur.com/xraga.png
When I get it far enough along, I’ll be releasing it to the public.
Also, WordPreh uses custom post formats, though you don’t see much variation in most cases. The most obvious thing is that ‘link’ post titles link directly to the destination, rather than to the permalink of the post.