SEO Tutorial Video for All In One SEO Pack

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David Olsen has graciously made this great video tutorial to complement our documentation for All in One SEO Pack for WordPress search engine optimization.  

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Translations for All in One SEO Pack

This is the full list of all available translations, together with the contributor and a support page if possible.

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All In One SEO Pack Release History

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Many people asked for it, I finally sat down to make this post. I will not include all the history now, just starting from 1.0. If you’re using something pre 1.x, please upgrade.

  • 1.4.6.12
    update for 2.6.
  • 1.4.6.11
    mb_ bugfix.
  • 1.4.6.10
    Localization bugfix.
  • 1.4.6.9
    Updating changeover docs.
  • 1.4.6.8
    vendor independent support for internationalization
    only update if your internationalization plugin doesn’t work
  • 1.4.6.7
    fixed bug with whitespaces that caused strange unicode characters to appear (thanks Jeff!)
    changed wording of “additional meta tag options”
    changed POT file for new/changed translation strings
    fixed strange quotes in POT file
    Bulgarian language update
    Simplified Chinese update
  • 1.4.6.6
    made title bar in edit post/page screens non-clickable so you can expand by clicking
    changed actions for both page and post edit screens b/c dbx_post_advanced disappeared, different behavior now in 2.3.x vs. 2.5.x
    The above means that you can now edit AIOSP specific things on pages again!
  • 1.4.6.5
    all references to ob_list_handlers are now guarded for older PHP versions
    Dutch translation renamed so it has a chance to actually work
    translation update Chinese Traditional
    celebrating WP 2.5!
  • 1.4.6.4
    Design fixes for 2.5.x
    Japanese translation update
    Portuguese Brazil (new translation)
    Dutch (new translation)
    German translation update
  • 1.4.6.1
    changed download URL for one click upgrade, this should work now again
  • 1.4.6
    Japanese update for 1.4.5.9
    Home page meta (copied as they are into your homepage, thanks to Liang)
  • 1.4.5.9
    support for author information in post and page title macros
  • 1.4.5.8
    Important: patch for preventing XSS (cross side scripting) on some pages
  • 1.4.5.7
    on “synthetic” pages (like the ones generated by falbum) no keywords get generated
  • 1.4.5.6
    modified home title, description and keyword generation for setups with static pages as homepage
    Hope I didn’t change anything for existing (working) static page setups! Please test if you use a static page as your homepage!
  • 1.4.5.5
    support for paged tag titles with WP 2.2 and Simple Tagging 1.7
  • 1.4.5.4
    support for simple tagging 1.7 on WP 2.2 for tag titles
  • 1.4.5.3
    fixed a problem with polyglot on static homepages (title wasn’t translated in that case)
  • 1.4.5.2
    page/post edit options now moved to the end of advanced options, look and feel like other advanced options
    internal whitespace trim for descriptions (long whitespaces get shortened)
  • 1.4.5.1
    fallback to blogname if no explicit home title is given
  • 1.4.5
    fixed critical problem in 1.4.4 with many PHP versions that were confused by a commented-out line
  • 1.4.4
    The title is now removed from the debug comment in order to prevent malformed html with certain titles
  • 1.4.3.9
    fixed bug that prevented the “disable on this post” to work properly (thanks to Aleem)
  • 1.4.3.8
    support for polyglot plugin
    Chinese simplified update
  • 1.4.3.7
    Polish translation update
    “disable on this post” now only shown to admins
  • 1.4.3.6
    options only for admins
  • 1.4.3.5
    UTW tags are now guarded by is_array()
  • 1.4.3.4
    log info on ob conflicts with other plugins
  • 1.4.3.3
    no paged format default
    logging for paged format
  • 1.4.3.2
    keywords and tags in meta keywords are now lowercases
    fixed bug with internal keywords
    now the keyword list is unique
  • 1.4.3.1
    removed comments from top of the file which broke 1.4.3
  • 1.4.3
    broken!
    paged title format as option
    archives, tags and categories have paged titles now
  • 1.4.2
    better support for paged home index pages
    added missing string in POT
  • 1.4.1
    Polish translation update
    Dead code removal
  • 1.4
    Updated Bulgarian Translation
    Fixed bug where additional meta tags where output twice
  • 1.3.9
    extended debug info
  • 1.3.8.9
    option for debug logging
    temp.zip is not unlinked on update (as before)
  • 1.3.8.8
    w3c compatibility on meta tags and br’s
    German translation update
  • 1.3.8.7
    you can now disable it on posts and pages for compatibility with other plugins
    German translation update
  • 1.3.8.6
    Turkish translation update
    some initialization moved into constructor for installatione that don’t call init correctly
  • 1.3.8.5
    internationalized error messages for one-click-upgrade
  • 1.3.8.4
    improved error handling on upgrade
  • 1.3.8.3
    plugin directory not checked for writability anymore, but there will be an error message if upgrade could not write
  • 1.3.8.2
    Chinese Simplified update
    Polish update
    Compatibility with PHP < 4.3.0 (I hope)
  • 1.3.8.1
    Russian translation
    Turkish translation update
    Problems with POT fixed
  • 1.3.8
    More details for download errors with one-click-upgrade.
  • 1.3.7.9
    Turkish and Bulgarian updates
    removed additional individual meta tags
  • 1.3.7.8
    Latest extraction error on upgrade is now shown. Please upgrade manually to this version if one-click-upgrade has problems!
  • 1.3.7.7
    additional meta for posts and pages (whatever you want)
    small fix in translatable string
  • 1.3.7.6
    German translation update, some language domains added for translated text, some more translation strings added
  • 1.3.7.5
    One-Click Upgrade!
  • 1.3.7.4
    get_original_title() now tries to return wp_title() if possible
    %title% renamed to %wp_title% in description format
  • 1.3.7.3
    fixed %title% macro for blogs where rewrite_title occurs after wp_head
    no keywords in 404 anymore
  • 1.3.7.2
    Some additions to language switcher support (based on David’s feedback).
  • 1.3.7.1
    More support for language switcher (tag and category names).
  • 1.3.7
    More internationalization with language switcher, German and Bulgarian translation update.
  • 1.3.6.9
    Updated Polish translation, META description for categories will now be output independently from any noindex options for categories.
  • 1.3.6.7
    Hungarian translation.
  • 1.3.6.6
    German translation.
  • 1.3.6.5
    Turkish translation update, removal of old DB stuff, updated POT.
  • 1.3.6.4
    Some layout changes, Help link removed (it’s inline), free-form meta fields for posts and pages.
  • 1.3.6.3
    Bulgarian translation update.
  • 1.3.6.2
    No limit on descriptions anymore, you can enter as many chars as you want. The counter simply counts them, starting at 0 (not the chars left). Changed POT file.
  • 1.3.6.1
    Bulgarian translation update.
  • 1.3.6
    Polish translation.
  • 1.3.5.9
    Rudimentary support for language switcher to enable testing, without using “the_title”.
  • 1.3.5.8
    Updated Turkish translation, new Spanish translation, max-width of help-texts is now 500px, pot file is included in distribution.
  • 1.3.5.7
    Filter “the_title” is now applied to the title just before it is replaced.
  • 1.3.5.6
    Chinese Simplified update.
  • 1.3.5.5
    Fixed missing text-domain for help strings.
  • 1.3.5.4
    Tweaked default option values so new users with WP 2.3 don’t have to do anything and it’s fairly optimized out-of-the-box.
  • 1.3.5.3
    Support for 404 titles. Totally remade options panel with easily accessible and translatable help.
  • 1.3.5.2
    Updated Chinese simplified and turkish translations.
  • 1.3.5.1
    Support for description formats. Your meta description can now contain pre-defined content around your description, like a sentence or your blog title etc.
    Yes, I know I skipped 1.3.5 …
  • 1.3.4
    Updated Chinese Traditional translation.
  • 1.3.3
    Changed order of keywords from different sources (tags, categories etc.) so it makes more sense.
  • 1.3.2
    Updated Chinese Simplified translation.
  • 1.3.1
    Added missing textdomain for “Options updated” message.
  • 1.3
    Ok, I screwed up the versioning completely :( 1.3 is the newest, comes after 1.2.9.9 and has all fixes from the erroneous 1.2.3 and 1.2.3.1.
  • 1.2.3.1
    Compatibility with WPG2’s gallery sitemaps. This time it works :)
  • 1.2.3
    Compatibility with WPG2’s gallery sitemaps. This will break themes without titles, but so far I’ve never encountered one.
  • 1.2.9.9
    160 char limit in descriptions is now visibly enforced.
  • 1.2.9.8
    Removed .po files from distribution.
  • 1.2.9.7
    Added missing textdomain for translated string.
  • 1.2.9.6
    French translation.
  • 1.2.9.5
    Danish translation.
  • 1.2.9.4
    Italian translation.
  • 1.2.9.3
    Ukrainian translation.
  • 1.2.9.2
    %category_title% as alias for %category% in post titles, all titles are now stripped of tags.
  • 1.2.9.1
    Trailing comma in keywords removed (was caused by the recent addition of autometa support).
  • 1.2.9
    Tags in meta descriptions are now stripped. This tackles the situation where paragraphs appear in category descriptions.
  • 1.2.8.9
    Norwegian Bokmål translation.
  • 1.2.8.8
    Traditional Chinese translation.
  • 1.2.8.7
    Updated Chinese Simplified translation.
  • 1.2.8.6
    Removed bogus upgrade-functions.php that was in db_install (for a possible category title feature) and made the Wordpress Upgrade Preflight plugin complain about it.
  • 1.2.8.5
    Support for AutoMeta. Keywords generated by it will be used.
  • 1.2.8.4
    Inner optimizations for translations.
  • 1.2.8.3
    Title rewriting fix for PHP installs that use lowercase classnames in ob_list_handlers().
  • 1.2.8.2
    Turkish translation (thanks to Baris Unver)
  • 1.2.8.1
    More debug info when there is obviously another output handler.
  • 1.2.8
    Fix for the Bulgarian translation.
  • 1.2.7.9
    Bulgarian translation (thanks to Iliyan Darganov)
  • 1.2.7.8
    Fixed keywords bug in WP 2.3 which used ALL tags from your installation as keywords
  • 1.2.7.7
    Removed extraneous debug statement
  • 1.2.7.6
    get_meta_keywords() returns all meta keywords entered through SEO pack
  • 1.2.7.5
    %blog_description% now available in all title formats
  • 1.2.7.4
    Quotes in keywords are now removed.
  • 1.2.7.3
    First version for Wordpress 1.5 compatibility.
  • 1.2.7.2
    %category_description% in category title formats
  • 1.2.7.1
    %category% in post title formats
  • 1.2.7
    Removed the debug info complete with the option. All necessary info is now inserted into the version comment without any overhead. Also other plugins with ob_start() get detected.
  • 1.2.6.9
    Even more debug info for title rewriting. Don’t forget to disable it after you have sent me the report!
  • 1.2.6.8
    Debug option for some remote debugging on title rewrite.
  • 1.2.6.7
    The option “number of words in auto-generated descriptions” is now completely gone, instead there’s an internal default of 160 chars (!) which reflects the current way most SEs handle text snippets (and will of course be updated when this changes). On description input boxes this is now reflected with a message.
    TODO: Some JavaScript that counts the number of chars entered.
  • 1.2.6.6
    Backwards-Compatibility with SEO Title Tag. If you didn’t set an extra title with All in One SEO it looks for the SEO Title Tag title and uses it if found.
    Support for search title formats. Tweak the titles of your search pages.
  • 1.2.6.5
    (internal) This version never got published, search title formats were added and published in 1.2.6.6.
  • 1.2.6.4
    Support for tag title formats. Tweak the titles of your tag pages.
  • 1.2.6.3
    Enhanced support for static page as front page. Don’t upgrade unless you’re using this and found it counter-intuitive the way All in One SEO handled it.
  • 1.2.6.2
    Support for archive title formats (you can now tweak the titles of your archive pages).
  • 1.2.6.1
    Switched from stripos to strpos since the former is only available in PHP 5.
  • 1.2.6
    Wordpress 2.3 ready! On WP > 2.3 Tags are used as keywords.
  • 1.2.5.9
    Another refactoring of the title rewrite code to make it K2 Rolling Archive compatible. On themes that don’t have any title element one should get inserted.
  • 1.2.5.8
    Added htmlspecialchars() to post and page edit forms. This means that input is now much more resilient to quotes and other chars.
  • 1.2.5.7
    Categories now have their own title format and get capitalized.
  • 1.2.5.6
    Problem fixed with ImageManager 2.4.1
  • 1.2.5.5
    If you’re using UTW for tagging, tag pages now get the tag name as title automatically. Some database code for category meta tags is contained but doesn’t get executed until all is finished.
  • 1.2.5.4
    (internal)
    Added some infrastructure for category meta tags.
  • 1.2.5.3
    Home page title now rewritten again (if set in options).
  • 1.2.5.2
    Upcoming changes for the feature of having meta tags for categories. Everything is commented out, so there should be no apparent difference to 1.2.5.1. Had to commit before fixing something else.
  • 1.2.5.1
    There is no a tab index (taborder) in the page edit screen. Once you’re at the SEO pack title, you can tab through the other input fields as well.
  • 1.2.5
    You can now change the page title format, separate from the post title format.
  • 1.2.4
    Fixed bug where page titles got ignored when they contained single quotes.
  • 1.2.3.9
    Added a guard in the code in case wp_query doesn’t exist. No remedy for the problem with some 2.0.5 installations, but at least pages get produced.
  • 1.2.3.8
    Fixed the problem with title tags spread on several lines (yes, some themes do this).
  • 1.2.3.7
    More consistent option “rewrite titles”. If switched off, no title gets rewritten if you specified an individual title for a post or page. If switched on, even individually set titles adhere to the corresponding title format. This is different from the behavior before, where an individual post title was not processed with the title format, e.g. if you got your blog title appended in your title format, this was not done for those posts with individual titles.
  • 1.2.3.6
    Compatibility with wp-cache (again)
  • 1.2.3.5
    (Hopefully) fixed the bug where all posts get the same title.
  • 1.2.3.4
    Due to a eclipse bug, this contains the changes from 1.2.3.4 that weren’t committed in 1.2.3.3.
  • 1.2.3.3
    Fixed typo in is_feed, otherwise the bug in 1.2.3.2 would not have been remedied.
  • 1.2.3.2
    Fixed: Bug with titles on category feeds.
  • 1.2.3.1
    Fixed: Pages were not showing set meta title, instead the page title always was used as meta title.
  • 1.2.3
    Complete rewrite of rewrite_title().
    Removed the option for using category descriptions as title, this is implicit at the moment.
    This rewrite was necessary to make room for the expansion I’m planning where you can edit templates for each type of title.
  • 1.2.2
    (internal)
    Upgraded to GPL v3
  • 1.2.1.4
    Important Update for UTW users
    typo: both aiosp_tags_noindex and aiosp_tag_noindex existed
  • 1.2.1.3
    Version and a link to this release history now appears in the Options for All in One SEO pack
  • 1.2.1.2
    (internal)
    changed aiosp_title_format into aiosp_post_title_format in preparation for a complete rewrite of rewrite_title
  • 1.2.1.1
    Fixed bug in 1.2.1 which broke your site when UTW wasn’t installed
  • 1.2.1
    noindex for tag pages (with Ultimate Tag Warrior)
  • 1.1
    Compatibility with Anarchy Media Player
  • 1.0
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All In One SEO FAQ

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If the answers below don’t solve your problem, before you post a comment, please consider:

  • What exactly is not working? The meta tags are not in the source? The page is completely blank? Please be as specific as possible.
  • What is your PHP error log saying?
  • Please specify the versions you are using: PHP, Wordpress, All in One SEO Pack.

Yes, it’s supposed to be a frequently asked questions list but most are not questions. If it can be described clearly without a question mark I use it that way.

Before you request support please test with the default theme!

FAQ

  • Does it work with Wordpress 2.5?
    Yes it does.
  • It doesn’t work.
    Actually this is not a really good notion to start with. Can you clarify it (see points below).
  • I don’t see the meta tags in the source at all.
    Try it with the default theme. Try disabling other themes until you get a working combination. If all that doesn’t help leave a comment on this page. Please specify what exactly isn’t working, your WP version and if possible your PHP version.
  • I don’t see meta tags with my theme. The default theme works all right though.
    In most cases your theme is missing the appropriate call to wp_head() usually found in header.php. Please patch it, taking it from the default theme.
    If you don’t know how to do this, the following steps might work. Do them on your own risk:   

    1. In your admin panel, go to Plugins - Theme Editor
    2. On the right bar, click on Header
    3. Locate the line with </head>
    4. Insert the following linke before it:
      <?php wp_head(); ?>
    5. Save
  • After activating All in One SEO Plugin I see two sets of meta tags.
    Please just edit your theme and remove whatever static meta descriptions and/or meta keywords you have in there. If it’s not your theme, you are probably using another plugin that is generating them. Disable it.
  • My paged index pages are not showing any meta tags.
    This is on purpose to avoid semi-duplicate content (your index pages are not your homepage so they shouldn’t use the same meta tags). It might change in the future.
  • My URLs don’t get rewritten.
    All in One SEO Pack doesn’t handle this, it’s already done by Wordpress itself. Visit Options - Permalinks to setup.
  • One Click Upgrade Error: Upgrade failed: Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature [code -10]
    Sorry I don’t know what’s causing this. It might be because the download got scrambled for some reasons. It’s up to manual updates now.
  • Why are you releasing so often?
    The comments on the main post are full of feature and modification requests and also requests for bug fixes. Every time I fix something or implement a new feature I release a new version. Because somebody wanted it, and might also help many others. As I’m doing this in my spare time I usually implement things in short bursts whenever I find a consecutive number of free time slices to use. And of course I release immediately afterwards and then keep on doing whatever I else I do in my spare time. This way it’s out of my mind (and todo list) and at least one person is happy (and possibly many more).
  • Can I automatically include some keywords in all my posts?
    The short answer is no. The slightly longer answer is that this plugin is about best practices for SEO, and having the same keywords over and over again on every post is not recommended.
  • Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted … What is that??
    All in One SEO uses output buffering to rewrite the titles, for this to works it needs memory. There’s no way to optimize that much more, and on most hosting setups it just works which leads me to the conclusion that there are some companies who are just skimpy with memory. If the above error appears on admin pages, it’s not even output buffering related. I’d recommend switching to a host that can provide sufficient memory or disabling some plugins.
  • Why are the keywords showing on my page so everyone can see them?
    You are misusing a feature called “Additional Post Meta Tags”. Please read the help text (simply by clicking on it in the options panel). It’s *not* meant for keywords.
  • Can I hire you for doing SEO / Internet Marketing on my site?
    Please fill out our contact form to discuss a solution for you.
  • Can I hire you for modifying All in One SEO Pack?
    If you are serious about that please be prepared for my rate. Yes I’m doing this for fun but that doesn’t mean you can hire me for a few bucks per hour.
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WP Security Scan Changelog

Date Version Change
25May08 2.3 manual table prefix change docs
11May08 2.2.64 resolving database table name prefix
05May08 2.2.63 CSS fixes, resolved database problems
05May08 2.2.62 prefix changing issues
03May08 2.2.61 fix to work for 2.6bleeding and beyond, huge fix for database issues
27April08 2.2.60.1 increase table name length, update support page and readme with documentation links
26April08 2.2.59.1 upgrade to 2.5.1, now compatible with DD Sitemap Gen




Change WordPress database table name prefix

**Do not do this unless you are comfortable with PHPMyAdmin and making changes to MySQL - if not, ask someone to do it for you

**Back up your database

For some people the database table name prefix changing functionality of WP Security Scan doesn’t work. In that case you may use the following instructions to change it manually.

1. backup your wordpress database to a sql file (you can use phpmyadmin)
2. open that *.sql file (make another copy first) using text editor, then find and replace all “wp_” prefix to “something_”.
3. now, drop all tables of your wordpress databases (don’t drop the database)
4. import the *.sql file which has been edited before into your wordpress databases.
5. and lastly, edit your wp-config.php file and change the $table_prefix = ‘wp_’; to $table_prefix = ’something_’;
6. you may find that your plugins are deactivated automatically when this happens, so you’ll want to activate them again if that’s the case… I’d recommend deactivating them prior to doing this anyway as a precaution.

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Hide WordPress version

more info to come

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.htaccess and .htpassword in wp-admin

More info to come.

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Change WordPress Admin Username

**Do not do this unless you are comfortable with PHPMyAdmin and making changes to MySQL - if not, ask someone to do it for you

**Back up your database

One common security vulnerability in WordPress is User Enumeration, in which an attacker enumerates a valid WordPress user account in order to launch brute force (password guessing) attacks. In order to help deter this type of attack, you should change your admin username to something harder to guess.

To change your admin username, open your web host’s MySQL administration tool (probably phpmyadmin) and browse to your WordPress database. Locate the users table, in which you will find a user_login column. One of the rows will have admin in the field. Change this to something else.

***Please note: you will still need a strong password. It is reccommended that you use the password tools in the WP Security Scan plugin.

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