#microformats 2025-08-25

2025-08-25 UTC
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gotra seems most of the WP themes listed here do not actually support microformats: https://wordpress.org/themes/tags/microformats/
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gRegor I believe that's based on the tags the publisher includes in the theme files
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gotra yep, but it's making "microformats" seem like it includes schemas
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gRegor Yeah, it gets confused for things like microdata or schema.org sometimes, especially if they're less familiar with microformats. Probably a lot of copy/paste in theme files, too. Not much to be done other than reaching out to theme publishers.
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[tantek] Can we file PRs on the themes to actually support microformats? cc: GWG
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gRegor Sure, but 298 themes on there currently :)
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gRegor If we do, definitely recommend specifying microformats2
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[tantek] maybe even tag them "microformats2" as they're verified
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[tantek] so we can instead link people to that tag
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[tantek] re: "298 themes on there currently" <-- is there a way to sort themes by popularity and fix the most popular first?
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glitzeor4444 what is microformats
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gRegor Loqi doesn't answer the what is questions here, different site (microformats.org)
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glitzeor4444 i swear the bot hates me lol. i'm trying to understand how to use microformats more beyond having an h-card ahaha. i'll figure it out
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glitzeor4444 ohhhh ok thank you
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gRegor We can discuss more in #indieweb-dev, but https://indiewebify.me/ is a good starting point to add basic microformats! You can paste in your URL and it will show what's found and make some recommendations.
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gRegor There's a few rough edges to it, needs some modernizing, but still generally works
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glitzeor4444 thank you!