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By Abhishek Ghosh June 9, 2013 12:11 am Updated on August 22, 2014

hCard and VCard : A Detailed Guide

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hCard and VCard is microformat for publishing the contact details of a person and organization; where as VCard developed as a file format for e-business cards. VCard file has various types, funnily, one type of VCard is hCard.

 

hCard and VCard : The Formats, Standards and Need for Websites

 

hCard and VCard

The standard Internet media type for a vCard (mime type) text/vcard. VCard can be of following types :

 

  1. vCard 2.1
  2. vCard 3.0
  3. xCard (has xml support)
  4. jCard
  5. hCard 1.0

hCard is the standard now. hCard is itself a microformat so we can embed vCard to inside an HTML page. That is what we can do and do with WordPress About Author Box at the end of each post. Important links for hCard are :

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  1. Rich Snippets for WordPress
  2. hCard Specifications
  3. Self Hosted Schema.org and Microformats Free Checking Tools
  4. Authorbox or Author Info Box in WordPress
  5. hCard and vCard Generator and Validation Tool – Github
  6. hCard Creator

 

Important note : With introduction of schema.org microformat, in future hCard might not be used. Same purpose for website is served by Person Schema.Google Rich Snippet Testing Tool still supports hCard.

 

Details on hCard

 

So, basically hCard is enough to know as VCard’s type is hCard, at current situation. All are for creating Semantic Web. So the function of n part of fn n can be increased with need :

 

 

Which will actually give this thing :

 

Abhishek Ghosh
( Dr.AbhishekDr.AbhishekGhosh
M.S.
)

The Customize Windows

dr.abhishek_ghosh@hotmail.com

F-04/502, Peerless Nagar, 29 F B.T. Road, Panihati

Kolkata,
West-Bengal,
700114
India

+919333212726
Doctor, Entrepreneur, Author, Orthopaedics, Surgeon

 

So, this is the basics. You can create your own custom HTML and add in WordPress Author box.

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Cite this article as: Abhishek Ghosh, "hCard and VCard : A Detailed Guide," in The Customize Windows, June 9, 2013, February 5, 2023, https://thecustomizewindows.com/2013/06/hcard-and-vcard-a-detailed-guide/.

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