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Honestly, most contact forms suck. No, people don’t want to enter their email twice (in fact, chances are that if they wrote it wrong the first time it will be as wrong the second time — copy and paste won’t fix your email.) People also don’t want to check their inbox for a validation link, decipher an impossible CAPTCHA, or subscribe to your newsletter. Contact forms should be easy, short, and work.

Contact forms can be set up in many ways. Some tutorials explain how to build a “bulletproof contact form,” but, for the average person, detailed tutorial is often not enough. For the WordPress folks out there, there are countless contact form plugins already available. Sure, many, if not all, work with relative ease. Some people, like me, just don’t want to be bothered building and styling a contact form. That’s where Wufoo comes in.
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Look, WordPress is great. I use it on doDesign and have become very familiar to it. I’ll never understand, however, why WordPress doesn’t accept code in posts. I recently had to go through all my posts and repost every line of code because some of the characters got messed up. Why is it so hard? Why can’t WordPress support code in posts?

I have no idea. WordPress acknowledges the problem. In fact, they let you vote to fix the problem in WordPress 2.8. Unfortunately it did not make the list. Why? I don’t know.

For now, however, I’ll be using the Syntax Highlighter plugin. It posts the code correctly, but if you edit the post you’ll need repost the code. Oh well…

Although WordPress 2.7 recently got released, the developers are already at work, taking ideas and suggestions for WordPress 2.8. I’m a big fan if WordPress, but there are still areas where it needs improvement. Most of these improvements can be made with plugins, but plugins can later lead to compatibility issues. Here are a few key aspects where WordPress needs improvement, and a link to a plugin that solves the problem.
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