How to Link to all posts that have the Standard Post Format

Question

Why doesn't this work?! <?php echo get_post_format_link('standard');?>

:( Any hints? All the other formats work.

Answer 1

Put this in your function.php

function akv3_query_format_standard($query) {
    if (isset($query->query_vars['post_format']) &&
        $query->query_vars['post_format'] == 'post-format-standard') {
        if (($post_formats = get_theme_support('post-formats')) &&
            is_array($post_formats[0]) && count($post_formats[0])) {
            $terms = array();
            foreach ($post_formats[0] as $format) {
                $terms[] = 'post-format-'.$format;
            }
            $query->is_tax = null;
            unset($query->query_vars['post_format']);
            unset($query->query_vars['taxonomy']);
            unset($query->query_vars['term']);
            unset($query->query['post_format']);
            $query->set('tax_query', array(
                'relation' => 'AND',
                array(
                    'taxonomy' => 'post_format',
                    'terms' => $terms,
                    'field' => 'slug',
                    'operator' => 'NOT IN'
                )
            ));
        }
    }
}
add_action('pre_get_posts', 'akv3_query_format_standard');

More information here.

Answer 2

<?php
$args = array(
'showposts' => 9,
'tax_query' => array(
        array( 'taxonomy' => 'post_format',
              'field' => 'slug',
              'terms' => array('post-format-video','post-format-quote'),
              'operator' => 'NOT IN'
              )
        )
);
query_posts( $args );
while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

    <?php the_title(); ?>

<?php endwhile; wp_reset_query(); ?>

from

http://www.tristarwebdesign.co.uk/blog/wordpress/query-by-post-format-in-wordpress/

Answer 3

When you assign a non-Standard post format to a post, a record gets added to the wp_term_relationships table. This record contains your post number and the term_taxonomy_id, which joins via wp_term_relationships to the post format in wp_terms. When you assign a Standard post format to a post, no record for post format is added to wp_term_relationships. If it was previously assigned another post format and changed to Standard, the record is removed from wp_term_relationships. Unfortunately, get_post_format_link relies on having that record in wp_term_relationships, so won't work with Standard post format.

For example, when I changed a post's post format to image, a record was added to wp_term_relationships, which eventually pointed to wp_terms >> post-format-image. When I changed the post's post format to Standard, this record disappeared. In WP's codebase, get_post_format_link uses get_term_by('slug', 'post-format-' . $format, 'post_format' ), and with the missing related post format record for Standard, we all lose. :-D

This might answer your original question of why it doesn't work. I wish that I could offer a slick solution, especially given your immensely helpful WordPress posts!