It should be possible to create templates for the post format archives in the Site Editor.
Today, if your theme supports post formats, and you go to Appearance > Editor > Templates > Add New Template, there is no option for creating new post format templates.
What is your proposed solution?
Post formats is a special case since it is not a taxonomy registered the same way as a category or tag.
If I would mock up the creation flow, I would picture that when you click on "Add New Template", the modal would include a button for
Post Format Archives:
Next when you activate this button, you would not see the options to select "For all items" and "For a specific Item". Instead you would be able to select and click a button representing each of the supported formats.
With supported formats, I mean the formats that the active theme has registered support for, that does not already have a template.
Each format may be represented with a short description and icon too, because the mockup looks a little empty.
But I would personally prefer this over a list of plain links with the format names.
What problem does this address?
It should be possible to create templates for the post format archives in the Site Editor.
Today, if your theme supports post formats, and you go to Appearance > Editor > Templates > Add New Template, there is no option for creating new post format templates.
What is your proposed solution?
Post formats is a special case since it is not a taxonomy registered the same way as a category or tag.
If I would mock up the creation flow, I would picture that when you click on "Add New Template", the modal would include a button for Post Format Archives:
Next when you activate this button, you would not see the options to select "For all items" and "For a specific Item". Instead you would be able to select and click a button representing each of the supported formats. With supported formats, I mean the formats that the active theme has registered support for, that does not already have a template.
Each format may be represented with a short description and icon too, because the mockup looks a little empty. But I would personally prefer this over a list of plain links with the format names.