The popular publishing platform, WordPress, recently released its latest major version:WordPress 3.0 (dubbed "Thelonious"). This iteration of WordPress introduces plenty of convenient new features such as drag-and-drop interfaces for building navigation menus (for those not comfortable modifying their theme files), the ability to deploy multiple sites under one installation (by the inclusion of WordPress MU) and a system for making custom content types other than posts and pages.
However, some new features appear to be superfluous. Why have a built-in link shortener (yet not include social media web service integration that benefit from link shortening)? Why release a new default theme every year? Is it really worth the increase in the code base’s bulk to give end-users an interface for designing custom headers?
These not-so-handy new features lead me to ponder: Why not put all of this effort to features that are actually useful to many?
Many, if not all, of the features I’ll suggest here already exist as WordPress plugins or can be found in competing content management systems (such as Drupal).
Many will argue that if a feature already exists as a plugin — why bother? There are definite benefits to incorporating features into WordPress even if they already exist as plugins.
First, it reduces the need for the user to install a third-party plugin, which in turn can improve performance and enhance maintainability, as some plugins are better written than others. One of the biggest causes of broken WordPress sites is plugin incompatibilities; by having these features native and tightly integrated into the system, we can avoid these issues.
Also, by adopting these features, they can be cultivated by the collective contributions of open source developers, which also means that we needn’t worry any longer about a particular plugin not being maintained by its creator.
Upgrading a system will be simpler if you didn’t have these features as plugins. You just have to upgrade your WordPress installation, and these features will subjected to the same testing, review, and scrutiny as other parts of the WordPress core.
With all of that in mind, let’s go over some of what I believe are missing features in WordPress.
Read more here : http://sixrevisions.com/wordpress/10-missing-features-in-wordpress/
