FV All in One SEO Pack
This post links to the revised version, 5 February 2010, which no longer shares the XSS issues of the Semper Fi version of All in One SEO Pack. Download with confidence.
Since we were not happy about certain features of the original All in One SEO Pack from Semper Fi Web Design we decided to do our own version of it (read the whole story here).
It's using all the code from the original plugin but there are several modifications which are really important to us and we grew tired of modifying the code over and over again after every plugin update. So we did the modifications to the plugin and added some extra options to allow you to override it.
- We've also eliminated the XSS (Cross Site Scripting) vulnerabilities in the original plugin.
- We've simplified the user interface
- We've also totally simplified the admin interface
- We've set extremely intelligent but non-intrusive defaults. Wordpress 2.8+ handles page titles and such awfully well on its own. If you have even a decent theme, you have the core SEO you need.
Removing the Keywords field
All in One SEO Pack is showing way to much stuff on the post editing screen:
All in One SEO Pack Metabox
Keywords field seem to be a little bit too much in our opinion. First, as any longtime SEO will tell you, keywords are just not that important. And it's an extra field which is confusing our clients.
Both tags and categories are used for it by default, so what's the point on adding any more stuff in it? This is how the post editing of our version of the plugin looks like:
FV Simpler SEO in post interface 5 February 2010: even simpler and clearer
FV All in One SEO Pack
If you really want keywords, you can have them by enabling a single option in the plugin configuration.
Disabling excerpts for descriptions
Another thing which was irritating us is that the Wordpress posts excerpts are being used as a meta description if you leave the Description field empty. This is usually ok, but we do a lot of Typepad to Wordpress conversions and most of the sites some up with an auto-generated excerpts from the export files.
That's why we added an option to turn off excerpts for descriptions. Overall our most important objective was to simplify the interface and provide intelligent defaults.
FV All in One SEO Pack: really simple admin options:
Don't worry all the advanced options are there but out of the way now:
Sensible SEO does not need to be a headache
Download
Download the latest version here: FV Simpler SEO Pack
Requirements
Wordpress 2.7+
7 comments on “FV All in One SEO Pack”
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My friend is using your plugin. I’m currently using a different plugin on my site but noticed a lot of inconsistencies. So this will work perfectly.
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I stumbled across your site via Google while struggling with the right way to SEO my bunch o’ blogs. I think I want to use your plugin instead of any combination of All-in-One, Platinum SEO, and Robots Meta.
Before making this change I was seeing meta no index lines from some of the above, but now that only FV is running, when I look at the source of reloaded pages, there are no meta noindex lines even though I have all the noindex options checked.
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(sound of hand slapping face)My bad! I was thinking there would be some kind of meta statement on the “index” pages like Posts and Pages, when actually only meta noindex statements are needed on the archive pages I opted for noindexing. The fact that other plugins generated these unneeded meta’s threw me off… at least that’s my excuse.
Thanks for making an excellent plugin available.
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Hi Lane,
We specifically try not to add all the crud and unnecessary comments throughout your website that the other plugins (specifically All-in-One-SEO Plugin) does. It’s your website and it doesn’t need a lot of our editorializing in the metatags.
Glad you like FV All in One SEO Pack! I think we have the nicest interface as well.
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I’m using the Redirection plugin to do a 301 redirect when someone comes to my site from the non-www URL. Does the canonical option in FVAOSEO (what an acronym!) replace Redirection’s function?
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Hi Lane,
No Canonical url means that FVAOSEO includesa canonical metatag for Google. In principle you don’t need a canoncial URL metatag but on a rare occasion it might help.
Redirection is what you need.
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