Title: Customizing Post Formats
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Customizing Post Formats

 *  [Johanna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johannasplace/)
 * (@johannasplace)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-post-formats/)
 * I’ve been looking everywhere and as far as I can see I’ve found the code you 
   need to add into your theme to customize the display of post formats. No where
   have I found to actually implement this code. Maybe I’m just blind, cause that’s
   happened before. But if someone could explain it to me, I would be really grateful.
   I’m pretty good at modifying code if I know what to do with it.
 * Here are the articles I’ve found that I like the ideas of most:
    [http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2010/12/10/smarter-post-formats](http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2010/12/10/smarter-post-formats)
   [http://www.itsananderson.com/2010/12/even-smarter-post-formats](http://www.itsananderson.com/2010/12/even-smarter-post-formats)

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 *  [Dougal Campbell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dougal/)
 * (@dougal)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-post-formats/#post-1820608)
 * Johanna,
 * Depending on your theme, you may need to modify several files. In many themes,
   the first file you want to look at is the `index.php` template. But in some newer
   themes (like TwentyTen), the ‘loop’ portion of the code is broken out into separate
   files, so you might need to look for `loop.php` or something similar.
 * Some themes might also have a `home.php` or a `front-page.php`, and the `archive.
   php` file might be one you’ll want to modify, as well.
 * And if you’re getting really fancy, just about all of the templates could be 
   modified. For example, you might edit `single.php` so that single-page ‘asides’
   posts are structured very differently from single-page ‘link’ posts.
 * But generally speaking, ‘index’ and maybe ‘archives’ are probably where you want
   to start looking. If you compare the code in your theme files to what you see
   in some of the tutorials on Post Formats, you should see where to make the changes.
 * Good luck!

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