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 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+

43 comments on “FV All in One SEO Pack”

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My plugin removed from WP.org extend directory - Page 6 - WordPress Tavern Forum at February 4th, 2010 around 9:09 pm
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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.

Cichlid at February 26th, 2010 around 2:26 pm
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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.

Lane Lester at March 3rd, 2010 around 9:12 am
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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.

Lane Lester at March 3rd, 2010 around 10:57 am
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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.

alec at March 4th, 2010 around 8:50 am
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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?

Lane Lester at March 4th, 2010 around 11:39 am
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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.

alec at March 5th, 2010 around 12:15 pm
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Callware.com Website Information at March 17th, 2010 around 10:36 am
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Hi,

I’m working on a site and using the FV All in one SEO Pack. I’m really happy with it overall and think it’s a great plugin.

However, I’ve noticed one problem with the search title. Although I’m using the default %search% tag under Advanced Options, the title is not displaying the search term. The remainder the title, as well as the titles on other pages, are working fine.

I don’t know if it matters but I’m running the latest version of WordPress with PHP5.

Thanks for your help!

Jennifer at March 28th, 2010 around 11:26 pm
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Hello Jennifer,

that’s will be a nice bug fix, thank you….

Fixed. Just upgrade to the fresh 1.6.10 version of our plugin and enjoy.

Thanks,
M.

Martin at March 29th, 2010 around 8:27 am
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Hi!

Thank you very much for this great plugin. We installed it on our site and didn’t have to tweak anything to get it to work. I do have a question though:

I was looking in Advanced Options and I noticed that the boxes for Canonical URLs and Rewrite Titles are checked by default. Our site already has canonical URLs and I’ve never really noticed anything wrong with the titles, so should I disable those? Or does it hurt anything just to leave them alone?

Thanks :)
Michele

Michele Rose at April 12th, 2010 around 11:28 pm
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Hello Michele,

if you are happy with your current titles, turn that option off. If you want to tweak those titles some more, turn it on. It should be off by default, so thanks for reporting this, I’ll fix that.

Thanks,
Martin

Martin at April 13th, 2010 around 12:28 am
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Hi there,
can you tell me please the most important difference about AIO Seo pack and your plug in?
If I do not enable Canonical URL your plugin where I see if is already enabled?

thanks

Mascali at April 27th, 2010 around 6:57 am
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Hi Mascali,

Thanks for stopping by.

Canonical URL is in advanced options (just click to reveal it).

We’ve simplified FV All in One SEO pack so the beginning SEO can just install it with no harm done to his or her site. All the advanced options are there.

FV All in One SEO has:
- better interface
- a new code base
- safer default options
- no cross site scripting security holes
At the same time we are completely database compatible so you can switch from one plugin to the other without losing or changing any data.
alec at April 29th, 2010 around 3:49 am
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Thank you Alec

Mascali at April 30th, 2010 around 5:10 am
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Hey there, I’m attempting to use your plugin and couldn’t get the title field replaced on the home page.

I found on line 1071 something about a backtrack limit error as the likely cause? Is there an easy fix for this problem?

Ivan Novak at May 6th, 2010 around 4:26 pm
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Hello Ivan,

what Wordpress version are you using? Do you have wp_head() in your header template? Does it work with the default Wordpress template?

Thank you,
Martin

Martin at May 11th, 2010 around 1:18 am
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Hi, what a great version of this plugin! It is really much nicer and simpler to use than the original version. Good work!

Would You consider adding WPML (Multilanguage) support for it? This is actually fairly simple and requires only about 2 lines of code, but the original AIOSEO authors JUST did not want to add this support. But for a multilingual site, it’s very important to be able to translate the home title and description.

Here’s a thread in the original AIOSEO forum about this possibility (and the instructions how to do that!) http://semperfiwebdesign.com/forum/all-in-one-seo-pack-feature-requests/allow-translation-via-wpml-plugin/

Would be very very grateful, if You added this support!

illimar at June 2nd, 2010 around 2:14 am
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Hi Illimar,

We definitely want to add multilingual support for FV AIO SEO, the only issue is when we will have a programmer free for a bit. We have the work stacked up quite high for June.

Thanks for the tip.

I’ve read the thread.

If Amir is willing to make the changes to the latest FV AIO SEO (our code is simpler and faster already), we are happy to include them going forward.

PS. We’ve just been working recently on converting themes to Slovak language so we really understand how important it is to do multilingual properly. I’d also like to add PO support so that a user is not necessarily dependent on WPML.

alec at June 2nd, 2010 around 3:59 am
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Just to be sure, does this plugin support the automatic upgrading in WordPress? I don’t want to miss having the latest.

I use WordPress Manager DX to manage my blogs, and it runs a cron job nightly to update all plugins in all my blogs.

Lane Lester at June 2nd, 2010 around 5:41 am
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Hi Lane,

Yes, FV AIOSEO does support autoupgrade.

alec at June 2nd, 2010 around 5:56 am
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After using this fv all in one seo, do I still need to use automated-keywords-generator plugin? I will like to know are they same or just all in one will do all these.

jason at June 13th, 2010 around 2:24 pm
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Hello Jason,

by default our plugin puts all your tags and category names in to the meta keywords field. I’m not sure how the other plugin works, but this seems to be enough.

Thanks,
Martin

Martin at June 15th, 2010 around 12:29 am
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Greetings,

Love the plugin, have a suggestion. We would like to be able to specify the noindex header on a per-category and a per-tag basis.

Thanks!

Clint

Clinton Goudie-Nice at June 29th, 2010 around 9:33 am
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Hi Clint,

We write simple powerful software. This kind of preference makes it very easy for people to do serious damage to their site.

Moreover, I can’t see a scenario where this usage would help a website in Google.

alec at June 29th, 2010 around 10:26 am
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Hi Clint,

I think that would just make life more complicated for the end user with no benefit for Google rankings.

It would also make the plugin a lot more dangerous (you could really damage your rankings).

So no we won’t be adding this feature unless you can give me a very good argument why we should.

alec at July 2nd, 2010 around 3:36 am
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Hi,

According to the WordPress plugin directory page for this plugin, it’s only compatible up to WP 2.9.2 and two people are reporting it’s broken in WP 3.0. Are you working on an update? When would you expect it might be ready?

Thanks!
Peter

Peter at July 23rd, 2010 around 11:29 pm
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Hi Peter,

As far as we know, FV All in One SEO pack is working in Wordpress 3.0. Reports of a plug-in not working are often done by our competitors as they are threatened by our superior interface and that our plugin is absolutely free without any visible commercialisation.

If you’d like to try it on Wordpress 3.0 and let us know any issues, we’ll be sure to sort them.

Cheers, Alec

alec at July 24th, 2010 around 5:59 am
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F1 SEO maybe thats a cool name the Formula 1 of SEO :)

rich at July 24th, 2010 around 9:27 am
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Hi Alec

I just installed FL SEO plugin on WP3 ….message came up…………The plugin generated 172 characters of unexpected output during activation. If you notice “headers already sent” messages, problems with syndication feeds or other issues, try deactivating or removing this plugin.

Just to let you know

Rich

Richard Brannan at July 24th, 2010 around 9:54 am
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Hi Rich,

I think FV All in One SEO still works under Wordpress 3.0 but we’ll look into those error messages next week.

Thanks for the info.

alec at July 24th, 2010 around 12:58 pm
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I have several WP 3.0 blogs, and none of them are having trouble with FV. There are problems with some other plugins, though.

Lane Lester at July 24th, 2010 around 6:45 pm
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For whatever it’s worth, that error message “The plugin generated xxx characters of unexpected output during activation. If you notice “headers already sent” messages, problems with syndication feeds or other issues, try deactivating or removing this plugin.” came up for me when installing non-modified AIOSEO Pro under WP 3.0 just now. Plug appears to work fine, though. Output is where you’d expect.

Googling the error is how I found this place, and learned of the XSS vulnerabilities in AIOSEO, which makes me wonder: what’s the diff between AIOSEO Pro and FVAIOSEO? In other words, what do I lose by making the changeover to address the security problem?

Rob Warmowski at July 26th, 2010 around 12:46 pm
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Greetings Peter,

I agree, one could potentially harm their site by enabling this for the wrong category or tag.

In my case, I’ve got a few postings that I’ve got no interest in having Google cache. For example a trademark information and copyright information post. I’ve also got a series of partners posts in a partners category that I’d prefer Google not index.

If there was a way to set the no-index header per post, perhaps a checkbox in the advanced options way down at the bottom of the page, that would work ok, although it would be slightly more error prone. It’s just complex to add all these posts to the robots.txt one at a time.

Thanks again for a great plugin!

Clint

Clinton Goudie-Nice at July 27th, 2010 around 9:29 am
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Hi Rob,

We’ll be fixing the error message shortly. As you pointed out, it doesn’t harm functionality.

You lose nothing by moving to the FV version of All in One SEO and gain much.
- The FV version has been totally recoded for speed.
- The FV version has been recoded not to be vulnerable to XSS
- The FV version has a better user interface.
- The FV version is safer as the dangerous settings are turned off by default and less easily accessible.
It’s a shame there’s so many unfortunate folks stuck with the rotten to the core adware All in One SEO which SemperFi picked up as abandonware. Nothing good has been done with All in One SEO for years. Just more and more adware packed in.

Spread the word if you can, that there is a safe, fast and advertising free All in One SEO plugin now available.
alec at July 27th, 2010 around 12:08 pm
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Hello Rich and Rob,

the “The plugin generated 172 characters of unexpected output during activation.” error no longer appears in new version of our plugin – 1.6.11 (it was appearing when you installed this plugin for first time, but not it’s fixed). Feel free to autoupdate.

Thanks,
Martin

Martin at July 30th, 2010 around 9:32 am
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I receive an internal error 500 when i try to activate this plugin on wp3. I also get the error using the All-one-soe version as well.

Keith at July 30th, 2010 around 12:29 pm
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nevermind.
I upgraded the site to 3.0.1 and now all sorts of plugins i couldn’t get to install are working.

Great plugin!

Keith at July 30th, 2010 around 1:33 pm
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I’m using the plugin v.1.6.11 in WP3.0 with the following problem:

I cannot get the “FV All in One SEO Pack Plugin Options / Home Title:” to work. Instead, Home page title gets picked from “general settings” as is usual w/o this plugin.

Is there a solution for this?

Pekka Sahlsten at August 6th, 2010 around 1:16 am
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Hi Pekka,

We’ll have a look at this next week. In the meantime, it sounds like if you put the right home page title in general settings and you are good to go.

Thanks for taking the time to report the issue!

alec at August 6th, 2010 around 1:19 am
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Hi, thanks for a very prompt reply!

I can live obviously with it for now. The only drawback is that I really cannot put my keywords in the beginning of the home page title using the general settings. This is quite important seo-wise afaik.

Thanks again.

Pekka Sahlsten at August 6th, 2010 around 1:40 am
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Sorry for a false alarm!

Actually, now that I looked into it, the problem is not with WP3 but with the theme I use. I tried tour plugin with TwentyTen theme and it works fine.

Sorry about being to rash to jump to wrong conclusions.

Pekka Sahlsten at August 6th, 2010 around 3:05 am