20 Things Wordpress Doesn’t Do Out of the Box
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Page 7: Wordpress has no Voting or Polls tools
Most of the early open source CMS and blog systems all had built in mechanisms for voting or polling visitors and displaying the results. I can understand why Wordpress doesn’t do this - becase there are so many different ways to provide voting or polls. Lester Chan has 2 plugins that are great for this: both WP-Polls and WP-PostRatings can be found here. I’ve used Post Ratings quite a bit and it works nicely! The Polls mechanism can be used either in the sidebar or in a post. I’ve also used the Democracy Ajax Polls Plugin which works great too. You might also want to look at Vote It Up for digg reddit style Wordpress voting on posts.
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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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