20 Things Wordpress Doesn’t Do Out of the Box
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Page 15: Wordpress doesn’t log or notify for any 404 Not Found Errors
You worry a lot about what people see when they visit your blog pages, but what happens when they visit and the page can’t be found? Maybe they mistyped something, a bookmark went wrong, a link was bad, or you just plain deleted something old. They get a “404 Not Found” error page, and generally in 99% of themes out there that page is blank with a “404 Not Found” error at the top. You are completely missing a GIANT opportunity to suggest something else to your visitor. Imagine going through the drive through at McDonald’s and asking for a “Big Mac” and having them say “we don’t have that - see you later…”! It’s like buying a car at the dealership and wanting it in blue, but when all they have is red or white the salesman just walks away. Read my post Wordpress Hack #4: Create a Custom Error 404 Page to learn not only how to give your 404 Error page new options for visitors, but also how to get notified via email every time someone sees a “not found” error.
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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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