It’s been a long time since I’ve written an article that’s not personal so I’m writing one.

On Monday, September 24, 2007, WordPress 2.3 was released (http://wordpress.org/development/2007/09/wordpress-23/). For information on the changes and improvements in this new version, see Changelog for 2.3.

Source: WordPress

It is barely two months since the release of WordPress 2.3, yet a minor revision has already been released (2.3.1). But still, there are a lot of annoyances left on WordPress’ latest versions. Here’s a list:

1. The incoming links on the dashboard is now provided by Google Blog Search (it used to be Technorati). The down side: the links to your post from your sitemap and post excerpts are included in the list. Illogical!
2. Considering this is the nth revision of WordPress, the fact that there is still no built-in self-update option is disappointing. It still has to be done manually (except on some web host that has an auto-update feature). Result: Users with no or little knowledge with FTP will have a hard time upgrading.
3. Still no decent tag manager. There is no way in the admin panel to add, delete or edit tags. Plus, there is also no way to see all posts of a specific tag on the admin panel. This means, when editing a name of a tag, all the posts with the specific tag has to be edited one-by-one.
4. No extensive SEO features. Still no custom keyword, description and other meta tag fields available on Post Editor.

All of them are fixable by third-party plugins. But that’s third-party: so lesser support and lesser compatibility consideration on the upcoming WordPress revisions.

1. For the incoming links, there’s Nusuni Technorati Links WordPress Plugin to revert it back to Technorati.
2. Automated updates – there’s Automatic WordPress Update Plugin.
3. For tag managers, there’s a lot of them on the web. Google it!
4. SEO functions, All In One SEO Pack would do. It has the necessary SEO fields to fill.

Have I missed something? Just comment them, too lazy to edit the post (laughs). Enjoy finding WordPress annoyances!
Mind-boggling question: WordPress is a competitor of Google’s Blogger in the field of blogging platforms. But why does WordPress use Google services to fetch incoming links? ;D

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