WordPress is maybe the world’s most popular and widespread internet software. It is an amazing tool for bloggers. People with little or no coding knowledge at all can maintain a WordPress site without any hassle.It is pleasure to blog with it.
I thought wordpress was a complete software itself but it isn’t.
Here’s some missing features:
- You cannot chooose to use SMTP mail instead of PHP Mail
- You cannot modify the current PHP Mail settings e.g. to change the email address from wordpress@nayarweb.com to notify@nayarweb.com
- Users cannot get email notification of comments. Though, RSS feed exists for comments.
I know all the points above are possible with plugins and some core file edits but it would be cool if it was default.
I agree that these basic plugins should have been built in the the core itself, but it really cost nothing to install it 😉
I have never tried to change the default email address but there’s surely an option somewhere in the installation. Check with your hosting server, I think that I might have seen it while installing wordpress on the server.
1. After some googling, i found a secret configuration of wordpress: wp-admin/options.php
2. PHP mail is controlled by wordpress. The host only obeys and sends with the mail address which wordpress gives.
I know it is not a big issue and could be done in less than 5 mins.
I am just saying that it would give people peace of mind if it were core as they would know that such features would be fully supported. They won’t have to worry much when updating their site or anything.
Anyways, lets hope wordpress will integrate these as core in the future.
Update:
I downloaded the SMTP plugin. It works well with the email notification plugin too. 🙂