20 Things Wordpress Doesn’t Do Out of the Box
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Page 10: Wordpress Comments are “nofollowed” by default
Be default in Wordpress all of the comments carry the “rel=nofollow” tag, meaning search engine crawlers will ignore those links. Read about nofollow at Wikipedia, and the official google blog, and the Wordpress Codex nofollow page. Nofollow was created to try and curb the problem with “blog spam”, but in reality many bloggers feel that it’s cheating them out of link juice back to their site. When you comment, you also create a “backlink” in the search engines to your site, and the “nofollow” tag tells the crawlers to ignore that. In response, “dofollow” plugins were created for Wordpress to turn the “nofollow” added to comment links off. On this blog I use the dofollow Wordpress plugin, but the follow URL Wordpress plugin does the same thing. Andy Beard has a Constantly update list of nofollow and dofollow plugins as well.
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- Page 1: Wordpress Has No Breadcrumbs
- Page 2 - Wordpress has no Contact Form
- Page 3 - Most Wordpress Themes have no Archive Index
- Page 4 - Wordpress Has No Built In Stats
- Page 5 - Wordpress Has No Sitemap
- Page 6 - Wordpress Has no Database Tools
- Page 7 - Wordpress Has No Voting or Polls Tools
- Page 8 - Wordpress has no "Related Posts" Mechanism
- Page 9 - You Can't Reply to Comments Without Visiting Post Page
- Page 10 - Wordpress Comments are "nofollowed" by default
- Page 11 - Wordpress Has No Way to Append or Add Content to Your RSS Feed
- Page 12 - Wordpress Has No Way to Enforce URL Preference
- Page 13 - Wordpress Has No Mechanism for Adding Code to Posts
- Page 14 - Wordpress Has No Way to Control Meta Tags or Titles for SEO
- Page 15 - Wordpress Doesn't Log or Notify 404 Not Found Errors
- Page 16 - Wordpress Doesn't Log What People Search For
- Page 17 - Wordpress Has No Built-In Translation Capabilities
- Page 18 - Wordpress Has no Built In Advertising Mechanism
- Page 19 - Wordpress Has No Monetization Abilities Built-In
- Page 20 - Wordpress Has No Cache
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May 7th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
You really hit the nail on the head with this post…or 20 nails…
The funny thing is that everything you talked about here - are all things that i use on every blog. The comment form, the 2 sitemaps, the search log, some kind of stats, super cache, etc.
I’ve often wondered why a lot of these things don’t get built in.
Looks like the feed notations on commentluv didn’t work. delete the other one please.
May 7th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Great resource you have compiled here. I think most people are aware of about half of these problems and the plugins to fix them, but this lays it all out.
Thanks!
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