20 Things Wordpress Doesn’t Do Out of the Box
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Page 2: Wordpress has no Contact Form
Every blog needs a contact form, and not having one is like not having one is like not having a cell or home phone. Look - you’re putting published content that you wrote on the web (globally) for anyone in the world to read. You never know who may have a need to contact you. Maybe someone has a question about what you wrote? Maybe they like what you wrote so much they want to partner with or hire you for work. Maybe they want to advertise. Maybe there was a problem with your blog you don’t (yet) know about and they want to let you know. Maybe someone wants to guest post or buy your site or domain. Maybe someone wants to interview you for their web site, newspaper, or even television or radio show. You NEVER know, and you NEVER will unless you have a contact form. Every single one of the scenarios I just described have happenned to me through my contact form. Read my post Not Having a Contact Form for Your Blog is a Really Big Mistake for details and the link to the only Wordpress Contact Form Plugin I’ll ever use.
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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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