Top features missing in wordpress.com

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  pmelchor · Member · Jul 28, 2009 at 8:31 pm

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  In my opinion these are the top features missing in wordpress.com:

  1) FEEDBURNER INTEGRATION:

  Being able to redirect all existing subscribers from http://yourblog/feed to your feedburner address. And making that feedburner address be the autodiscovery address for new subscribers.

  Today you cannot know how many subscribers you have.

  2) A JAVASCRIPT ENABLED SHARETHIS TYPE BUTTON (options not shown on new page but on a layer onclick or onmouseover):

  * That can be configured to include the social sharing services you are interested in (in my case some international and some Spanish: bitacoras.com, delicious.com, fresqui.com, friendfeed.com, facebook.com and meneame.net)

  * And that can be automatically added at the end of each post

  What do you think? I wish wordpress.com had a list like Dell’s ideastorm where we could vote for feature requests (and see which the most popular are.

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  husdal · Member · Jul 28, 2009 at 8:37 pm

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  1) Even with Feedburner, you cannot know for sure.
  2) wordpress.com already offers Addthis: http://support.wordpress.com/addthis/

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  inktopia7 · Member · Jul 28, 2009 at 9:17 pm

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  I vote for dynamic blogrolls (not to sound like a broken record, as I just added a post on this, but it changes the way one blogs forever).

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jul 28, 2009 at 9:27 pm

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  1) I don’t like being told that I will use this feed service or that feed service. You force me into a certain feed service and I’ll wave goodbye to your blog and never look back.

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  pmelchor · Member · Jul 29, 2009 at 8:39 am

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  Thanks for the comments. My replies:

  husdal:

  1) Yes, but I think it is better than having subscribers split between feedburner and wordpress (which is what happens to me now: I have an RSS icon linking to feedburner; some people click on that icon but others use the browser autodiscovery which takes them to the wordpress feed)

  2) Yes, but it opens the sharing links in a new window instead of a layer and it does not let you personalize which links you want. Also since it is not really integrated if someone shares a post from your blog’s homepage, what they will be sharing is not the permalink of that post but your homepage URL

  thesacredpath:

  1) I agree completely, sorry for not being clear: I meant I would like to have a feedburner integration option (never a “no choice”)

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  husdal · Member · Jul 29, 2009 at 9:24 am

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  If you add the AddThis button to your post it will give you the exact URL of that post. I agree that the new window is a bit annoying, but it still works.