20 Things Wordpress Doesn’t Do Out of the Box
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Page 4: Wordpress has no built in Stats
By default (that I know of) Wordpress doesn’t track anything. What most of us want is a mechanism to track what’s going on daily in our blog, and then what the trends have been over time. I use the official Wordpress.com “Stats” plugin for my daily view, and Google Analytics for the long term (both are free). I like hte fact that by using Wordpress.com Stats I can see my top pages and search terms for the day, in addition to top links people are clicking on. But in Google Analytics I can drill down and see how many people are coming from google, Yahoo, MSN, or bookmarks for the last month, quarter, or year. I can even setup reports to run daily and auto-email me a PDF compilation of what’s going on if I want. Read my review of WP Stats here, and read 5 Key Google Analytics to Watch for Blog Progress here.
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This post has multiple pages...
- 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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