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WordPress & Microformats: Past, Present, Future

Tantek Celik speaking

He starts with a Hugh McLeod Cartoon

He starts with a Hugh McLeod Cartoon

One of the biggest examples is hcard (vcf).  If you have your contact information available, you should give them the ability to easily add it too your address book.

Operator – A firefox plugin we should install

He showed how Google marks up all references on a Map in hcard to import.

Then he showed how BarCamp allows you to import Calendar events in hcard format.

Timeline that showed that since 2004 microformats have been built into WordPress.

Link manager supports XFN

Category support rel-tag

A lot of themes support microformats

The number of plugins that support microformats have “ballooned”

The Future he thinks is:

  • Semantic publishing
    • People marked up from Link manager, Address Book
    • Events from your calendar
  • Social network hub
  • Personal hub
    • Profile Syndication
      • Get Satisfaction – Allows you to change locations and profiles over many sites
      • DiSo (search demo) – You can track down and note all your accounts on one page
  • Join the conversation: microformats.org/wiki/irc

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