Comments on: 10 Missing Features in WordPress

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:48:04 +0000

@Gregg L. DesElms
Kudos for someone else who realizes WP works fine for blogs, but is horrible for just about anything else. I work for a web company that has been trying to use WP for our clients for awhile now, and we are starting to see how bad it really gets. Why does WP use regular expressions for URL parsing? This causes any site with a decent amount of content to take forever to load pages and to save new content. We have one client with over 500 pages, and their site is pretty much unusable (even with WP Super Cache set to max) because of this.

Also, there is the ‘randomly show rss feeds instead of pages’ issue that has shown up on several of our clients sites now. I tried to track this down in the WP core code to fix it, but it was so horribly written I could not follow it.

For what my advice is worth, use WP for blogging (which it does well), for anything else look at a real CMS (like Drupal).

By: Jitendra

Jitendra — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:31:00 +0000

All these features can be acheived by using plugins. There are excellent plugins for adding new features to wordpress for example the Wp-Pagenavi plugin for pagination but yes, I agree that providing these features bydefault with wordpress would be great. May be some plugin developers can constribute in adding these features to WordPress… :)

By: maisWebHosting

maisWebHosting — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:51:33 +0000

Still we are in the version 3.0.1 and these features aren’t real.

Some of these features you can do with plugins, but that isn’t the same thing and some plugins need a good quantity of memory.

Regards

By: subzero525

subzero525 — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:27:37 +0000

i don’t know why i always have a problem with my web cashing always cause some freak changes to my site

By: sky

sky — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:13:17 +0000

wordpress have many great plugin..
i use auto social poster to socialize my blog..
if you want it..download here..

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By: Siku

Siku — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:50:35 +0000

Hello Jacob, This is a very interesting article. No doubt WordPress is an outstanding blogging platform (which can also be used as a CMS for small websites) but I too believe they should include these features in their platform. Cheers.

By: Daniel Craig Jallits

Daniel Craig Jallits — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:36:44 +0000

Better Search… Hands down would be in my opinion the best focus of core development time.

By: Nottingham

Nottingham — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:45:57 +0000

I’ve just finished design and developing a site in WordPress… one of many, and I’ve never had so much trouble with one, and it was all down to Search! So annoying I spent days playing with it, too this date I don;t understand it fully!

By: Matthew Moran

Matthew Moran — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:36:35 +0000

Completely disagree with 99% of this post. Search is about the only part you’ve got right here. Otherwise, you fail to see the purpose of WordPress and plugins.

By: Toby

Toby — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 12:15:55 +0000

Except for search, you are right there. Seeing as it’s already a part of WP core, and a fairly integral part, it should be beefed right up – because right now, it does suck =)