{"id":2781,"date":"2012-09-11T11:07:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T18:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2014-12-04T13:15:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T20:15:43","slug":"buddypress-seo-plugins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/seo-101\/buddypress-seo-plugins\/","title":{"rendered":"BuddyPress & WP SEO Plugins"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is it about BuddyPress<\/a>\u00a0that makes the best WordPress SEO plugins in the world, almost universally fail to function as the author intended?<\/p>\n

The issue at hand was that the East Portland Chamber of Commerce<\/a>\u00a0was\u00a0using Yoasts SEO Plugin<\/a> and BuddyPress as a\u00a0Business directory.<\/p>\n

The site was SEO’d great, etc. but it had no unique title tags on each of their business profile pages, and no description tag either.<\/p>\n

Left to it’s own devices with no SEO plugin at all, Buddypress handles title tags fine, although it does nothing for description tags.<\/p>\n

However, using Yoasts plugin, (my plugin of choice<\/a>) the Buddypress titles stop working, and just a generic title tag is showing up for everything Buddypress, \u00a0and the Yoast plugin detected no description tag. It even put in a message in the code saying so, but the normally functioning auto-generate didn’t happen.<\/p>\n

\"image\"<\/p>\n

I bugged @yoast<\/a> twice on Twitter, once a couple of weeks ago and once just yesterday, looking only for a way to disable his plugin for anything in my \/member-directory folder or deeper, but this was becoming embarrassing situation.<\/p>\n

Rather than be a pest, this morning I figured I could find something else, but that was easier said than done….<\/p>\n

I tried All-in One SEO<\/a> and it does the same thing – screws up the title and also doesn’t add a desc tag.
\nRemoved<\/p>\n

Then I tried SEO Press<\/a> – installed – Same thing, and when I tried to go to any of the help urls in the plugin they 404’d<\/p>\n

The plugin hadn’t been updated in a year so I removed it<\/p>\n

SEO Ultimate<\/a>\u00a0installed –\u00a0Nope – I got the same breaking of my title tags.<\/p>\n

By the way, this was a VERY interesting looking plugin, with everything under the sun \u00a0including rich snippets, and after playing with it for a few minutes, I found a mistake in the default settings.<\/p>\n

It turned out that the {excerpt} for description tags not only didn’t work for Buddypress, it didn’t \u00a0work for the regiular site, either! \u00a0I looked the plugin documentation it showed {excerpt::autogen} was correct, and that fixed i – the fdefaults in the plugin are just set wrong i guess)<\/p>\n

The Winner – for Now<\/h5>\n

Gregs High Performance SEO<\/a>\u00a0 does not break the title tags<\/strong>, and can still do a good job elsewhere in the site also. Unfortunately, the meta description tags still don’t work in BudddyPress, but at least the titles are intact so I’m getting close.<\/p>\n

While it does bother me that the plugin hasn’t been updated for nearly a year, at least I have business title tags!<\/p>\n

At this point, Gregs plugin DOES add empty quotes as the \u00a0description tag, and I’d love to see it extended to the BuddyPress pages, but I’m not going to lose any more sleep over it.<\/p>\n

Why is it so Difficult?<\/h5>\n

I wish I knew why Buddypress seems so incompatible. \u00a0How hard could it be to either take care of SEO on it’s own (like add by auto generating description tags, or \u00a0“let” other SEO plugins work in their environment. The least they can do is address it in their community<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, is this actually the SEO plugin writers job? Gregs plugin got this far, so certainly it’s possible.<\/p>\n

Plugin makers always cite that they simply can’t support compatibility with everything, and with a couple of WordPress plugins of my own<\/a> I certainly understand that, but BuddyPress is not just a fringe plugin – their stats show over 1.2 million downloads, and their forums are FULL of people wanting an SEO solution.<\/p>\n

Until the plugin creators start supporting BuddyPress, or the other way around. If anyone has any other feedback or suggestions on how to get description tags, I’m all ears!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is it about BuddyPress\u00a0that makes the best WordPress SEO plugins in the world, almost universally fail to function as the author intended? The issue at hand was that the East Portland Chamber of Commerce\u00a0was\u00a0using Yoasts SEO Plugin and BuddyPress as a\u00a0Business directory. 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