If your theme supports post formats, you’ll see a Format box in the Add New Post and Edit Post pages. There, you’ll find a list of all the formats you can use with the theme. You can pick any of them for a post, but if you don’t make a choice, your post sticks with Standard.
Table lists all the post formats that WordPress allows. Themes can pick and choose which of them they allow.
| POST FORMAT | TYPE OF CONTENT |
| Standard | Standard, ordinary posts. Every post starts out using the Standard format. |
| Aside | A short snippet of text that doesn’t add up to a full post. Casual bloggers can use the Aside format to blurt out a quick thought, in much the same way that you might use a text message or a tweet on Twitter. Most themes don’t display a title for asides. |
| Status | A short update about what you’re doing right now (“Chillin’ with my Missin’ Manual, about to build a brilliant WordPress site”). Similar to the status update feature on virtually every social media site. Most themes don’t display a title for status updates. |
| Link | A link to another website, with little or no extra text. Most themes don’t display a title for links. |
| Quote | A short snippet of text that quotes some words of wisdom you want to share. Most themes don’t display a title for quotes. |
| Image | A post that contains a picture you uploaded. |
| Gallery | A post that contains a picture gallery. |
| Audio | A post that contains an audio recording. |
| Video | A post that contains a video file. |
| Chat | A snippet of a memorable conversation, offline or online. Usually looks like this: Joe: dude, why u ignorin me? Ben: im learnin some wordpress, bro |
