20 Things Wordpress Doesn’t Do Out of the Box
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Page 11: Wordpress has no way to Append or add Content to Your RSS Feed
Every time you write content your RSS feed is updated and all the blog search engines are alerted that you have something new. In addition anyone that subscribes to your RSS feed will see your new post in their favorite feed reader. While RSS feeds are a very handy way to keep people reading your content, they are also an easy target for splog (spam blog) scrapers to steal your content and auto-post it to their machine-run ghost MFA (made for adsense) blog.
What you need is the ability to put a disclaimer or copyright statement in your feed, so the auto-posting spam-blog-bots will still get the content, but people reading will know it was stolen and come to your site. Your blog has a footer - why not have an RSS footer? In Wordpress Hack #6: Protecting Content from Scrapers and Splogs I describe how to install and use the “RSS Signature Wordpress Plugin” and digital fingerprint to protect your content by using your RSS feed to your advantage (and not your detriment).
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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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