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How To Find the Missing Functionalities of WordPress

By hitasoft, Nov 17, 2017

Did you realize that 26% of all websites are run by WordPress? WordPress has built up itself as a top of the line framework for blogging and is currently a standout amongst the most favored content management systems for business sites.

Individuals adore that WordPress is adaptable, secure and that various plugins can be introduced to provide additional functionality without having to code useful tools from scratch. Be that as it may, despite the fact that numerous WordPress customers have reported and imparted their basic issues to the product, WordPress still needs numerous things entrepreneurs and developers think should come standard with an install.

Here are a few functionalities missing in WordPress, and some workarounds for the meantime.

Capacity to Duplicate Posts

A few sites have a standard format for posts or pages, and having to totally re-try settings to get the desired yield once more can pointlessly tedious. Starting at now, this functionality on WordPress is restricted to the utilization of a plugin: Duplicate Post.

Utilizing the Duplicate Post plugin, you can “clone” a post or “make another draft.” The last duplicates the post and opens it in another window for altering, while the previous makes another post completely.

Utilizing this plugin, you can likewise alter settings that let you do things like the duplicate:

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Unique date;

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Unique status (draft, distributed, pending);

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Unique passage; unique connections;

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Children of the Original page;

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Taxonomies/custom fields.

This plugin enables you to work with custom post sorts, too. Sadly, it is contradictory with some plugins and doesn’t really get out these contrary qualities toward the front. In most pessimistic scenario situations, complications from utilizing this plugin could crash your site—ensure you have a backup!

Bundle Settings and Plugins for New Installs

For WordPress developers that make different destinations without any preparation, it would be especially useful to have some functionality that combines every desired feature into a document that you could transfer to the site you’re building. Numerous WordPress sites have a similar base highlights, particularly on the off chance that you work with clients in a comparable industry. At any rate, there will undoubtedly be some launch list plugins you use all the time and installing/activating them one by one is dreary.

The simple solution for this issue is WordPress Install Profiles plugins. Once installed and activated, Go to Plugins > Bulk Install Profiles.

This tool gives a default list of plugins, and you can add or remove plugins from the list. To include another plugin, utilize the name on the plugin’s URL. Once you’re done, you can give the list profile a name, and download it to your PC.

To install on another site, you’ll need the WordPress Install Profiles plugin installed and activated on that website, at that point import the profile you need.

Understand that this plugin bundling solution hasn’t been updated in numerous years – there might be issues similarity or security issues related to its utilization.

Site Caching

Site caching helps influence your sites to load speedier by putting away the site forms in an HTML document to be loaded as required. On that note, page load is a central point for positioning, with respect to technical SEO. Engineers wish that WordPress had site caching at its center to keep away from general server calls and dedicated server calls.

In spite of the fact that WordPress doesn’t have site caching incorporated with the platform (regardless of many solicitations for its consideration), there are numerous plugins that can start this procedure, as W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache.

Furthermore, some WordPress hosting organizations offer site reserving (like Flywheel and WPEngine). At last, website caching offered through a web have is more productive than these plugins, so if that is a choice, don’t install a caching plugin.

Built-in Form Builder

There is a considerable measure of form developer plugins, yet since most organizations utilize forms in any case, for what reason not add this functionality to the WordPress core code?

While developers sit tight for this functionality missing in WordPress, attempt a universally handy (and exceedingly prescribed) contact form plugin like Contact Form 7. Contact Form 7 can deal with various contact structures, and you can without much of a stretch alter the shape and email content with simple markup. Contact Form 7 bolsters Ajax-controlled submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam separating, and other imperative security factors. This plugin is easy to set-up, flexible, offers customizable default messages, and easily-defined emails.

Enhanced Theming System

In spite of the fact that WordPress is a top of the line CMS, there is much to be enhanced as far as the theming system. Numerous engineers get out it’s “sloppy code” and “disastrous mix of business and display logic”.

In the present version of WordPress [at the season of writing], template hierarchy does not consider. This implies in the event that you have a plugin with a custom post type for movies (for instance), the plugin needs to abrogate the template system, or make a workaround to give a default template for displaying this custom post type.

With a code base as perplexing as WordPress, there’s dependably space to enhance code practices, wipe out shortcodes, and fix template order for a more effective base theme.

Custom User Permissions

Currently, WordPress has 5 user roles:

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Administrator

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Editor

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Author

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Contributor

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Writer

Each of these roles has particular limits of tasks (called capabilities). Numerous developers contend that it would be better if WordPress could enable users to set, specify, or limit what each individual user can do, especially for a multi-author/user site.

The simple solution to overcoming this functionality missing in WordPress is the Advanced Access Manager plugin, which oversees both frontend and backend access.

File Browsing Interface

There are a huge number of plugins available, however not all things are a solid match for your site. Truth be told, certain plugins may make your site back off and should be deleted.

Typically an error code distinguishes this, yet when it doesn’t, you need to physically deactivate all files, at that point reactivate them one by one in the admin area to figure what is causing the error.

On the off chance that the error (like the white screen of death!) does not enable access to the administrator zone, you need to utilize a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) like Firezilla to backup all plugin documents.

Other than fixing issues, approaching documents specifically from WordPress would make it simpler for developers to rapidly settle issues without requiring cPanel/FTP access.

Conclusion

WordPress is an effective platform individually. The development of different plugins has broadened its usefulness and make it significantly more powerful. A considerable lot of these plugins can help with functionality missing in WordPress, however, developers are as yet holding out the expectation that huge numbers of previously mentioned issues will get built-in solutions.

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