I think the confusion comes because post formats appear to be just a “flag” and there’s a few post saying just use “categories” or “tags” or “meta boxes”. Yes you can “flag” custom styling with tags or categories or even in your template with some hackery. Those methods are not preferred though as they are [...]
So there still seems to be some what of an issue with WordPress’ custom post types and permalinks. I’d like to add that there are several threads on the wordpress forum, which go into detail different solutions to issues arising with custom post types and clean urls. This thread Custom post type permalink rewrite did [...]
Update — This will BREAK image.php, in order to correct this remove the is_single() function call! So I’m using custom post types, with default taxonomies i.e. categories and tags and low and behold the category archive page isn’t working! By not working, I mean they don’t pull in the correct custom posts for the queried [...]