20 Things Wordpress Doesn’t Do Out of the Box
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Page 18: Wordpress has no built in advertising mechanism
When I first started blogging 8 or 9 years ago it was a noble thing to do, a bit self-serving, and information all at once. There weren’t ways to “monetize” blogs really and we blogged about all the cool things we found on the web. Google and Yahoo started as cool little cutesy ideas too, and now they’re billion dollar entities. I think that no matter what your reasons for blogging, whether you’re a musician, a stay-at-home mom, a senior citizen, a teen, a college student, or a professor - everyone would like a little money for troubles and time spent blogging. Thousands more get online each and every day to try and “find their fortune” blogging online.
The easiest way to try to make money on your blog is by just placing some ads on your pages and posts - and the most popular way to do this would be Google Adsense. You could use the Why Do Work Adsense Plugin, which not only inserts adsense ads for you, but it also can configure them to say run one ad for the first 7 days, and then run a different sized one after that. On the other hand, the All in One Adsense and YPN Plugin allows you to insert google Adsense OR Yahoo YPN ads on your Wordpress Blog. If you want insanely fine grained control of your ads, then the Who Sees Ads Plugin will allows you to control example who, how, and where your ads will be shown.
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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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