When we talk about Thesis wordpress theme, the first thing comes into our mind is SEO. Thesis is said to be the best framework for SEO and after using it for months, I have no reasons to deny it.
Thesis Framework power is it’s SEO control and also Thesis offer inbuit SEO options like All in one SEO plugin.
Though All in one SEO wordpress plugin, is one essential plugin for WordPress SEO. Thesis has inbuilt option for entire required field for SEO optimization of any post. So there is no point using All in one SEO plugin along with Thesis theme.
Should we Disable ALL in One SEO while using Thesis?
This is the question asked by Himanshu in my previous post on Thesis wordpress theme:
In simple word no, there is two option we have
- Use All in one SEO settings
- Use Thesis SEO settings
The first option sounds good to me, but why to burden your blog with one more plugin, when the option is inside your Theme file.
What about ALL in One SEO data for old blog post?
We can Transfer all old ALL in one SEO detail for individual post into your Thesis post and Forget about All in one SEO plugin.
How to Transfer All in one SEO settings into Thesis SEO settings?
This can easily be done by running 3 SQL queries in your phpmyadmin. If you use Dreamhost webhosting, You can access phpmyadmin using my previous tutorial
For other webhosting companies, please refer to your web hosting wiki page.
- Take Backup of your database
- Disable All in one SEO
- Login to your phpmyadmin, select your WordPress blog database, and click on SQL
Now Run Following queries:
insert wp_postmeta (post_id,meta_key,meta_value) select post_id, concat('thesis_',meta_key),meta_value from wp_postmeta where meta_key in ('title','description','keywords');
You will get success prompt after making these changes. Now crosscheck by opening any of your old blog post and check the Keyword and meta value.
Update: You can use this plugin to import all in one SEO settings to Thesis theme.
For now, I have migrated all in one SEO settings into Thesis theme and using Thesis theme for all my SEO needs. Do let us know if you have migrated AIO SEO settings into Thesis or not?
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Thanks Harsh, I got my answer.:-)
One may also use the WP-DBManager plug-in for taking the back-ups and doing SQL queries. It makes the task much easier for newbies.
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Good point Ashutosh. Wp Db manager is also very useful for running SQL queries.
Moreover I like it’s feature of maintaining database.
You can read my review on Wp-DB manager plugin here
http://www.shoutmeloud.com/wp-db-manager-plugin-wordpress-database-optimization.html
I have to agree with you, Thesis is an awesome theme for WordPress and the SEO capabilities are the icing on the cake.
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Thanks Chris. Along with its SEO capabilities I love its Typograophy.
Thesis is the ultimate theme for any blogger.
IT has everything, SEO, layout optimization, you name it they have it !!
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really excellent info man!! while posting in ma site i was always
think about this thing but this post make my doubt clear
and nice sql query for it!! surely more useful to it
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Currently I am thinking of changing my blogs theme and considering to buy Thesis theme. After reading your post about the SEO benifits I have decide to go for it. Thanks
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But what if you want to switch to a different theme in say, 2 years? You’ll lose all the SEO settings because you’ve disabled the All in One SEO and move it to Thesis
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Why do you have to remove the All in One SEO settings? I am not good with MySQL and will not mess with it. In the past Ive totally pooched a couple of sites, even with what is supposed to be simple SQL issues.
I do use and like Thesis. I’m trying to decide, is it best to disable any SEO plugins or not.
Thanks
Thank you!
Just started working with Thesis and this really made my transition really easy.
Very simple to do and it worked great the very first time
Also, I never used the all in one plugin, I use the Platinum SEO Pack and it worked just the same.
All the best
Billy Ojai
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What to do if following error comes while executing the above sql query ?
Error
SQL query: Documentation
INSERT wp_postmeta(
post_id,
meta_key,
meta_value
)
SELECT post_id, concat( ‘thesis_’, meta_key ) , meta_value
FROM wp_postmeta
WHERE meta_key
IN (
‘title’, ‘description’, ‘keywords’
)
MySQL said: Documentation
#1146 – Table ‘tweetmedaily.wp_postmeta’ doesn’t exist
Thesis theme is just another SEO optimized themes on the net, yet without it every one can be very successful in SEO, if SEO is measured with the amount of visitors through organic search then it’s safe for us to throw Thesis away or put it into garbage can, because why would we spend $87 or $164 for a theme if with a free theme we can have thousands of thousands of visitors everyday via G or Y! ? Well I highly not recommend thesis to anyone if their premise based on with Thesis every SEO thing will will be a lot easier
And your blog get high traffic it’s not because Thesis it is because you know SEO that’s all
Abi@
You are absolutely right
I’ve got the reverse question. I have a formerly Thesis site and with my new theme I’ve installed All in One SEO. I have 600 old posts now that I need to copy the Thesis SEO Desc and Title fields to the All in One Seo fields. Any idea how to do this with SQL?
Mark for this I need to redo the code, let me know if you need it badly. Meanwhile why you switching from Thesis to another theme?
Not badly, but I;d like to switch other themes away from Thesis. I have a feeling many people will be doing this, so it could be a cool function to have.
Thanks but It is not working anymore with all versions of All in One SEO prior to version 1.6. All in One SEO 1.6 and later new query is following.
insert wp_postmeta (post_id,meta_key,meta_value)
select post_id, concat(‘thesis_’, substring(meta_key,10)), meta_value
from wp_postmeta where meta_key in (‘_aioseop_title’,'_aioseop_description’,'_aioseop_keywords’);
So should i disable my all in one seo pack plugin as i am working with thesis?
hey harsh..
I had installed all in one seo to my site a long back , but even till now there was not much increase in traffic , when i tried to find what was the reason , I found that there was a bug in my “all in one seo pack” which made some issues with the meta tag… As it was showing all the post “Techomag | video” rather than “Techomag >> post name” …. So i removed “all in one seo”… But later when i tried to retweet my old post to check out the plugin , some of my post it still shows “video| techomag” rather than “techomag>> post name” in the retweet popup…..
What should i do… please suggest me some help…
regards
antodoms
I think issue is because of values added in your custom field.. You can remove old ALL in one SEO values from your database.
You can refer to this post on how to do that:
http://www.shoutmeloud.com/how-to-delete-custom-field-value-from-wordpress-database.html
Hey, i was using Paltinum SEO pack, Then i turn on thesis, i want to disable Platinum SEO, which should i do first?
I don’t wanna continue “Blog title” after “page title”. I have did all the things which i can but i can’t get rid of this problem.
All in Seo Pack Settings:
Use Original Title: Enabled
Rewrite Titles: Enabled
Page Title Format: %page_title%
Site:
Header.php :
Page.php :
Please help me out, i am fed up of this problem.