Title: Documentation help
Last modified: July 8, 2017

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# Documentation help

 *  [chipotlecoyote](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipotlecoyote/)
 * (@chipotlecoyote)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/documentation-help/)
 * I’m trying to set up an “indieweb compliant” blog now, and I feel like I just
   don’t quite understand what’s going on with this plugin. 🙂 Here’s a few questions
   that would _really_ help me get a handle on things, and might be good for documentation
   purposes in general. I’m a technical writer and would be happy to help work on
   documentation for you if you’d like, but I need to clear up my own confusion 
   first.
 * What’s the relationship between “Post Kinds” and WP’s native “Post Formats?” 
   Do I have to set both of them, or should I just be ignoring Formats if I’m using
   Kinds?
 * What’s the relationship between the “Post Properties” box and the main edit box?
   What I mean is that it seems for some post kinds (e.g., notes and articles), 
   you don’t need to fill in anything in post properties, but for other post kinds
   it seems like you shouldn’t fill in anything for the main entry field and instead
   do _everything_ in the properties box.
 * Last but not least: are there any tips for CSS styling kinds in a theme? Is there
   a way to tell the plugin <i>not</i> to automatically insert the SVG icon denoting
   the kind if I don’t want it?
 * (I’m serious about the documentation help offer, by the way, if you’re interested)

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 *  Plugin Author [David Shanske](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dshanske/)
 * (@dshanske)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/documentation-help/#post-9301375)
 * Post Kinds is an Indieweb replacement for Post Formats. Post Formats never took
   off, to be honest. For backward compatibility, post formats are set when they
   map similarly to Post Kinds though.
 * The Main Edit field acts as the ‘content’ property. Not all types of posts have
   content.
 * As for styling and the icon…your theme can have its own custom template for each
   kind or all kinds, if you add a kind_view directory in the theme. Inside, kind.
   php or kind-{type}.php will override the plugin files.
 * The only way to be more clear is to try tool popups and similar.

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 * Last reply from: [David Shanske](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dshanske/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/documentation-help/#post-9301375)
 * Status: not resolved