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Implement Changelog

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katzwebservices

Denver, CO

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9:42 am November 11, 2009

Hi, I'd like to request that you implement the WordPress readme.txt changelog standards. It's really helpful to see what has been modified right from the Plugins page, and even without a click using the Changelogger plugin.

Here's the readme.txt file with the Changelog!

=== All in One SEO Pack ===
Contributors: hallsofmontezuma
Donate link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=mrtorbert%40gmail%2ecom&item_name=All%20In%20One%20SEO%20Pack&item_number=Support%20Open%20Source&no_shipping=0&no_note=1&tax=0&currency_code=USD&lc=US&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&charset=UTF%2d8
Tags: post,google,seo,meta,meta keywords,meta description,title,posts,plugin, search engine optimization
Requires at least: 1.5
Tested up to: 2.8.5
Stable tag: trunk

Automatically optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).

== Description ==

**Optimizes** your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (**Search Engine Optimization**).

**[Download now!](http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/all-in-one-seo-pack.zip)**

**If upgrading, please back up your database first!**

[Support](http://semperfiwebdesign.com/forum/) |
[FAQ](http://semperfiwebdesign.com/documentation/all-in-one-seo-pack/all-in-one-seo-faq/)|
[Translations](http://semperfiwebdesign.com/documentation/all-in-one-seo-pack/translations-for-all-in-one-seo-pack/)

Some features:

* Canonical URLs
* Fine tune Page Navigational Links
* Built-in API so other plugins/themes can access and extend functionality
* Provides SEO Integration for WP e-Commerce sites
* Nonce Security
* Support for CMS-style WordPress installations
* Automatically optimizes your **titles** for search engines
* Generates **META tags automatically**
* Avoids the typical duplicate content found on Wordpress blogs
* For beginners, you don't even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install.
* For advanced users, you can fine-tune everything
* You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want.
* Backward-Compatibility with many other plugins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others.

Be sure to check out:
[WP Security Scan](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-security-scan/)
and
[SMS Text Message](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sms-text-message/)

Follow me on Twitter to keep up with the latest updates [Michael
Torbert](http://twitter.com/michaeltorbert/)

== Installation ==

You can use the built in installer and upgrader, or you can install the plugin
manually.

1. You can either use the automatic plugin installer or your FTP program to upload it to your wp-content/plugins directory
the top-level folder. Don't just upload all the php files and put them in `/wp-content/plugins/`.
1. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
1. Visit your SEO options (*Options – All in One SEO*) for Wordpress 2.3.x, (*Settings – All in One SEO*) for Wordpress 2.5.x-2.8.x
1. Configure any options as desired, and then enable the plugin
1. That's it!

If you have to upgrade manually simply repeat the installation steps and re-enable the plugin.

**If upgrading, please back up your database first!**

[Upgrade guide for upgrading from 1.5.x and below to
1.6.x](http://onefinejay.com/2009/07/11/a-guide-to-upgrading-to-aioseop-v1-6-1)

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

Please read these **[FAQs](http://semperfiwebdesign.com/documentation/all-in-one-seo-pack/all-in-one-seo-faq/)** before requesting
**[My Plugin Support Forum](http://semperfiwebdesign.com/forum/)**

== Changelog ==

= 1.6.8 =
* Fix empty delimiter bug, improved memory resources used.

= 1.6.7 =
* improved API for integration with other plugins, e-commerce, forums, added option for turning tags into keywords, added reset button

= 1.6.6.2 =
* bugfix for closing PHP tag trailing space which may affect some users – only upgrade if you’re getting an error

= 1.6.6.1 =
* added support for users on servers with open_basedir restrictions turned on

= 1.6.6 =
* bugfix for disabling feature on pages

= 1.6.5 =
* Enable the ability to exclude any WordPress or non-WordPress generated dynamic page

= 1.6.4 =
* bugfix for some options not migrating for some people

= 1.6.3 =
* Enhancement for title capitalization of categories and bugfix for titles of multi-page category/archive pages

= 1.6.2 =
* Update for people who have problems with fetch_rss working in their WordPress installation on their server

= 1.6.1 =
* Fix for META Description auto generator

= 1.6 =
* Integration with WP e-Commerce sites, support for attachment pages, optimized database queries, added API structure for other plugins to use, additional language support

= 1.5.7 =
* Important Localization Bug-fix

= 1.5.6 =
* Update for 2.8

= 1.5.5 =
* Update support link

= 1.5.4 =
* Additional Nonce support

= 1.5.3 =
* Support for static home page and blog page / CMS style WordPress installations

= 1.5.2 =
* allows you to move wp-content to a custom location

= 1.5.1 =
* minor bugfix

= 1.5 =
* security update – nonce support

= 1.4.91 =
* minor update

= 1.4.9 =
* canonical fix

= 1.4.8 =
* add canonical urls slash space

= 1.4.7.4 =
* add canonical urls

= 1.4.7.3 =
* update options and config

= 1.4.7.2 =
* update dragable text boxes

= 1.4.7.1 =
* update versioning

= 1.4.7 =
* update for 2.7.1
* Support for shortcodes.

= 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 internationalizationonly 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 pluginChinese 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 lowercasesfixed bug with internal keywordsnow 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 optionarchives, tags and categories have paged titles now

= 1.4.2 =
* better support for paged home index pagesadded missing string in POT

= 1.4.1 =
* Polish translation updateDead 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 loggingtemp.zip is not unlinked on update (as before)

= 1.3.8.8 =
* w3c compatibility on meta tags and br’sGerman translation update

= 1.3.8.7 =
* you can now disable it on posts and pages for compatibility with other pluginsGerman translation update

= 1.3.8.6 =
* Turkish translation update
* some initialization moved into constructor for installations 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 updatePolish 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 updatesremoved 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_headno 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.

= 1.3O =
* k, 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 userstypo: 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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katzwebservices

Denver, CO

posts 2

12:30 pm November 18, 2009

Hi Michael,

I know there is a change log, but it's not available when installing automatic updates from the WP plugins page. I also use the Changelogger plugin, which is very handy, and clicking through to the Semper Fi site every time there's an update is not necessary if there's an included readme.txt changelog.

Would you consider it?

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dimadin

posts 3

4:44 pm November 28, 2009

I too highly encourage you to add changelog in readme.txt. This doesn't prevent you from adding changelogs to your own page and linking back to it from plugin.

It is useful to have it in readme.txt because we can see in details of available update what changes are made, and also if we use Changelogger plugin mentioned by katzwebservices.

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dimadin

posts 3

1:53 pm August 14, 2010

It is 10 months later and you still didn't add a changelog to readme.txt. Why is that such a big problem?


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