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What We Require From Wordpress 3.0

All of us have our own views on what we would like to see in Wordpress 3.0.  We already know that the Wordpress team have a new default theme on the way, but what else would you like to see?  I have created a list of what I would like to see along with some reasoning.  What do you think?

1. Spell Check: This is a big thing for me.  I would like to new and improved on the fly spell check features.  It must be doable with JavaScript, but when blogging away from my Mac I do find the lack of Wordpress spell check features to be irritating as most Operating Systems or Browsers do not feature a built in spell check.
2. Search Engine Optimisation: Ok, their are Plugins available to help with SEO on any Wordpress powered website, but I would like to see something built in that automatically optimises my pages for me based on what is in the pages/post.
3. Security: This is always and always will be an issue for me.  The most secure the better, security can always be improved weather it means adding a salt to passwords or when Wordpress hashes them for storage or a new way of storing them, I will always be interested.  

1. Page Ordering: This is currently a pain in the arse.  I would like to see a simple drag-and-drop system for ordering pages (NOT POSTS) so that I can quickly choose what order I want them to appear in on the navigation
2. New Backend: I would love to see a new backend for Wordpress that allows much faster navigation, as well as a better organised “Settings” area where I don’t have to take four or five guesses before i land in the right panel.
3. Form Creation/Processing: Even if it is restricted to just contact forms, I would love the see a quick and easy way to create a contact form that allows your readers to get in contact.  Currently the plug-in’s out their a rather ugly and frustrating to use.
4. Are You Human?: Are You Human? is something I would like to be able to ask my visitors.  This way I could cut back on spam by including a simple CAPCHA on my comment form submission.  Seriously, that spam is starting to drive me nuts, and hides the Ham marked as Spam.
5. Site-map’s: This would help those new to Web Design and well as those of us who are more experienced.  Why should me have to download a plugin to do such a simple function?  I would expect any CMS to create a site-map for me.
6. Better Gallery Support: Photo Galleries are something that can be useful to include on your Wordpress website, especially if you use it to power your portfolio.  Better support for these would be nice, along with more control in order to customise them.
   
7. Related/Most Popular Post Widget: One feature that most Blogs (which is what Wordpress is designed to power at the end of the day) include is the Most Popular and Related Posts in the sidebar.  So why make us download plugin’s to do this?
8. More Template Control: This means that we want more control over what can be done with the template tags in Wordpress.  For example, why should I have to hard-code my navigation to create tabs?  I want to be able to insert more mark-up within the links in the navigation.
9. Multi-Domain Support: I would like the option to have one wordpress installation managing all of my Blogs.  Each of which is on it’s own Domain (i.e. InspiredByWordpress.co.uk, AppFlow.co.uk).  Although Wordpress MU has the ability to have separate Blogs on separate sub-domains I want separate Blogs on separate Top-Level domains.

What would you like to see in WordPress 3.0?