Microformats: Add hCard to your blogroll in 2 minutes flat

As a supporter of microformats, I want to provide you some amazingly easy ways to add them to your blog. To kick this off, I’m going to tell you how you can turn your WordPress or Blogger blogroll into a list of hCards in less than 2 minutes!

WordPress

Doing this in WordPress is dead simple. Just open up wp-includes/bookmark-template.php and make the following changes. I prefer to download the files here and make edits with jEdit :)

What are microformats and why do you care?

There seems to be a bit of buzz around microformats since developer teams at Mozilla and Microsoft have announced that the next version of their browsers will support them.

What are Microformats

microformats logo According to microformats.org:

Microformats are small bits of HTML that represent things like people, events, tags etc. in web pages.

These small bits of Semantic HTML will allow website viewers to interact with websites in many more ways.
For example:

  • The link to my name on the right is an hCard microformat that allows you to add me as a contact through many services (even as a vCard in Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird).