Which Plugins Do You Want to See Built into WordPress?

My list would be:

* Pagination
* Breadcrumbs
* Filtering controls

Akismet,All in one SEO,Wordpress Automatic Upgrade are some for me…

Well, those I’d really like to see integrated in Wordpress are thos I use the most

The one I made are thos I would really want to see included in Wordpress. This means a real statistics tool (ZdStatistics) and a Multilingual system (ZdMultilang). You can find them both on my blog and I must say these are features that are really missing in Wordpress.

Hi, I would like Google XML Sitemaps and Popularity Contest. Like you said, it should come standard with any blogging software. But I’ d like WP keep slim.

The above are good.

1. Audio player or some other player built in.
2. Ping optimizer - those functions built in
3. Code box - inserting of code into posts/pages (Code View)
4. easy uploader - uploading of files, themes, etc.

I’m sure there are loads of plugins that could be built in.

I was about to comment that I want features to be moved out of WordPress into plugins but it would be so simple to implement the no self pings functionality that it seems a waste not to. After all that is just adding an option that is missing from a component that already exists.

I wouldn’t want popularity contest to be in the core and I don’t think it is the job of WordPress to sort out database backups and optimisation.

A functionality I would like added is to add a “Title” popup to both the URL and IMG buttons in the Write page. I always forget to add that code, and it helps so much with SEO.

thought they were going to incorporate sitemap, but yeah i agree with you Kyle really don’t see any other plugins that should be essential to wp..

Word is 2.7 will have auto upgrade, that’d be nice. Can anyone confirm? Ping Optimizer, WP Stats, and DB Manager would help. Oh, and it seems most bloggers are using either Share This, Add This or Sociable so one of those would be nice as well.

Great post!

I agree that All in one Seo and Siremaps should be built in. I would also like to see a stats plugin built in.

I would love to see Darren Ethier’s Organize Series plugin built in, mostly because I’ve become so damn dependent on it. The added assurance of its long-term viability would be welcome.

I don’t want to see any new features added to the WordPress core. What I would like to see is the core team making WP more modular by making as much of the core functionality as possible into core plugins. The more modular WP is, the easier it is to customise.

The advantage of plugins is that they can be installed if they are wanted, and can be removed. Trying to remove core functionality that is not wanted is a hassle and the more code that is on the server, the more chance there is of a bug or security hole being there.

I don’t want popularity contest as part of WP. Why bloat the code for something not everyone wants or needs? Same with the SEO pack - there are better ways of handling that. Google XML Sitemaps is great and I use it myself, but it should not be part of the core. If WP intends to provide an XML sitemap it should follow the standards and be usable by Google, Yahoo and MSN, which the plugin is not.

I also agree with Andrew in comment #6 - it is not the job of WordPress to manage databases. Adding any kind of db manager to a web site presents security risks so this should always stay as a plugin.

But, I consider the self ping to be a bug, not a feature change. Sites should never, ever be pinging themselves and I fail to see the logic for WP to keep doing this when the fix is so simple.

It will be great if Wordpress have plugin that can integrate Google Analytic.

I disagree. If you keep on throwing features into the core what you end up with is bloated, inefficient, difficult to maintain software.

You could overcome any of the issues you raised by:
1)making some plug-ins official “wordpress.org integrated” plug-ins;
2)storing them in a separate directory (eg includes/plug-ins); and
3)using a different admin page to avoid confusion with normal plugins.

And I could continue using my own avitar implementation without having the official one chewing up resources in the background.

I’d like to see ‘Maintenance Mode’
An integrated contact form like ‘Easy Contact’
A much better search feature like ‘Search Everything’

I also agree with ‘All-in-One SEO Pack’, ‘Google XML Sitemaps’ and a database Manager.

But I’m OK either way. I use these on ALL my sites anyway.

For me I would like to see these plugins built into WordPress:

1) Page Link Manager
2) Redirection
3) Optimal Title

I also agree with some of the other suggestions above like having some “audio player” and “breadcrumbs” worked in.

Great post!

Take care.

Stu

i always use:

iinclude_page and search_pages

so i took the code from the plugins and put it in my functions file in my starter wordpress theme - now all my wordpress sites have them by default

I think the database manager one, all in one SEO and the broken link checker.

1. WP-PageNavi
2. I’m not sure if the plugin already exist or not, but I really like to see a feature in WordPress where we can make the site goes to offline mode. We need this kinda feature especially when we’re updating to the latest version of WordPress.
3. Contact Form 7, or at least a simple contact form

They should add the WordPress automatic upgrade plugin. That way upgrading WordPress to a new release will be a lot less time consuming, almost as easy as upgrading the plugins hosted by WordPress.

* Pagination
* Breadcrumbs
* xml sitemap and humans friendly sitemap

For me definately xml sitemaps and Breadcrumbs should be built-in to the core feature set.