Vendor lockin.

I try to tell people this. It seems like common sense to me. But nobody listens.

And you’re the first person I’ve ever seen writing about it.

People complain about being ripped off, but they rush to their destruction, crushing those who would save them.

If you want something *really* interesting to examine, check out the Scribe plugin. The next version will have “suggested sites” for you to link to. And people will crow about what a great idea this is… as they lock themselves out of any hope of ranking in SERPs, permanently.

The version you should be using is the one which just went up, FV All in One SEO Pack 1.6.8 (it will be jumped to 2.0 in the next few days).

We’ve done a full revision.

In that version, you don’t need to set Title and Title Attribute by hand as they will automatically and logically default to:

1. the long title
2. the normal title

On pages you will see an option for Menu Label.

FV Descriptions just covers descriptions, but descriptions are the key piece for mass editing. Normally your long post and page titles would not be so different from your normal post and page titles. Whereas it’s very easy to forget to include a meta description at all, which can really hurt you in the search engines. You’re quite right we should create an FV Title which edits all the popular title formats like FV Descriptions. Not sure Menu Label is worth a separate plugin (most of the time one sets shorter menu names when one sees that a menu name is too long).

Thanks for trying the brand spanking new and intensely upgraded FV All in One SEO Pack. Let us know if you have any further questions.

Foliopress Descriptions caters only for dat entry in the description, but the SEO Pack has also created fields for “Title”, “Title Attribute” and “Menu Label”.

Does this mean that I have to edit each post or page manually anyway – since Foliopress Descriptions only updates part of the required data?

Apologies if this is a really stupid question but I’m new to this stuff!

Thanks in anticipation.

They use a lot of code to make sure you cannot remove all that junk code and I really do not want to advertise which version of the plugin I’m using.

So, I’m simply going to ask my programmer to create a light weight plugin and we will offer that to the community as an alternative.

Making one’s SEO dependent on a theme is extremely foolish. The built-in SEO in Thesis is deliberately put there to make it very difficult for one to swap themes.

Much better to have a solid SEO plugin which is theme independent.