TomHarrigan

Go to the homepage or blog page of a site, chances are, all of the posts look similar: A title, an excerpt and a featured image. Why not display the most important part of your posts to readers and actually give them a reason to click on your post a read it? That’s what this plugin does.
To enable Post Style formatting functionality, go to Settings->Reading and select “Enable Post Style formatting.”
McNinja Post Styles is what we always wanted Post Formats to be: powerful, flexible and extendable. Unleash the creativity of your content.
McNinja Post Styles can display content based on the Post Style of a post. For example, if your post has a video in it and you’ve selected the ‘Video’ style, your blog page, category pages, etc. will display that video rather than an excerpt.
Post Styles can be selected for a Post from the ‘Edit Post’ screen.
For more information or to follow the project, check out the <a href="http://thomasharrigan.com/mcninja-post-styles/" rel="nofollow ugc">project page</a>.
McNinja Post Styles…
<ul>
<li>Allows authors to choose how to display a Post</li>
<li>Supports all of the formats added by Post Formats (aside, gallery, link, image, quote, status, video, audio, chat) so that if your theme made use of Post Formats, the same templates can be used.</li>
</ul>

McNinja Post Styles

It's like Post Formats, but actually useful. Every post is unique, start treating them that way.

Justin Sternberg

IFTTT (if this, then that) is one of the coolest web services available, and allows you to connect your different web service accounts to create ‘recipes’. An example of a recipe that I have is to create a new WordPress post on my blog whenever I favorite a YouTube video.
Unfortunately IFTTT doesn’t have a way to specify a post format or a custom post type, so this plugin provides a couple ways to update them.
To set the post format, you need to set the category in IFTTT to one of the following categories:
<ul>
<li><code>ifttt-aside</code></li>
<li><code>ifttt-gallery</code></li>
<li><code>ifttt-link</code></li>
<li><code>ifttt-image</code></li>
<li><code>ifttt-quote</code></li>
<li><code>ifttt-status</code></li>
<li><code>ifttt-video</code></li>
<li><code>ifttt-audio</code></li>
<li><code>ifttt-chat</code></li>
</ul>
So for my YouTube -> WordPress recipe, I have it adding the ‘ifttt-video’ category in IFTTT (IFTTT allows you to specify the category for the posts it creates), and voilà, when it’s published, the format has been set.
If you want to instead set the new post to a custom post type, you can do so by setting the category in IFTTT to one that matches this pattern: <code>ifttt-posttype-{post_type_slug}</code>. So if you wanted to create new WordPress pages with IFTTT, you would add the <code>ifttt-posttype-page</code> category.
And finally, if you want the IFTTT categories to be stored as a different taxonomy, you can do so by setting the category in IFTTT to one that matches this pattern: <code>ifttt-taxonomy-{taxonomy_slug}</code>.
Note: These speciall <code>ifttt-*</code> categories will not actually be set on the post/page/object. These are ‘special’ categories which simply serve as flags for which post format, post-type or taxonomy to send the data to, and they are removed from the list of categories which are actually stored to the post.
Hope you find this useful!
Feel free to <a href="https://github.com/jtsternberg/IFTTT-Post-Formats" rel="nofollow ugc">contribute to or fork this plugin on github</a>.

IFTTT Post Formats & Post Types

Set a post format or post type for your IFTTT-created posts via a post format or post type category.

McNinja Post Styles vs IFTTT Post Formats & Post Types