Structured Blogging

Did you ever want to publish a review of a book, a concert, publish your calendar, but didn’t want to mess around with templates and custom fields?

Well, the plugin “structured blogging” for WordPress and MT does just that, publish different kind of formats with a different interface for each. With this plugin you can publish semantic markup because it publishes xml and xhtml (microformats) and forget about coding.

All of the formats Structured Blogging is compatible with are XML or xHTML based and can easily be converted between one and another. The goal is to start getting developers to build compelling end-user benefits and not keep discussing the subtle differences between the various technical solutions. A movie review that was created by one end-user on a mobile phone and stored on their blog should be able to be compatible with a search engine based suggestion engine or a public movie review server. Events created on any sort of tool should be compatible, and be able to be interchanged freely. That’s the goal of the Structured Blogging compatibility box.

Structured Blogging

The code uses either XHTML and a script tag to hide XML elements for machine readable data. The formats are microformats like hCard. This might be the beginning of a platform powered by webpatterns.

Similar to the “Write page” in WordPress, the plugin adds buttons for writing an event or a review. It publishes the following formats:

Supported subscription formats RSS 2.0 Atom RSS 1.0 Media RSS iTunes RSS

Supported Page Tag Formats Microformats hCard hCalendar hReview relLicense relTag XFN XOXO

Supported File Formats RDF FOAF vCard-in-RDF iCal CaptSolo’s Resume vocabulary Danny Ayers’s RDF reviews