Seo for Buddypress
April 29, 2009 in Plugins, SEO
Description
It gives you the possibility to enter title, description and keywords for the main blog, the user blogs and the buddypress pages.
Read what others are saying about Seo for Buddypress on wpmu.com
http://wpmu.org/optimize-buddypress-for-search-engines-with-the-newly-updated-seo-plugin/
The 1.x version is a complete rewrite of the old plugin.
It has a new logic, and much more functionality.
If you update from an old version, please go to the settings page and click on “Update Database”.
For bug report and feature requests please go to:
http://sven-lehnert.de/en/2009/04/29/buddypress-plugin-seo-for-buddypress/
If you find a bug or need some help please post it as a comment on this site.
Installation
- Upload ‘Seo for buddypress’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPressIn the main blog theme header.php, must exist
< title > < ?php bp_page_title() ? > < /title >In the user blog theme header.php, must exist
< title > < ?php wp_title(); ? > < /title >
These are the standard title tags. Added by buddypress and wordpress by default in the header.php.
If you did not change your themes, or did any customisation, they will be there.
That’s it, have fun.
Update:
If you update from an old version, please go to the settings page and click on “Update Database”.
Download: Seo for Buddypress
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New version is out, thanks to all for the feedback.
@All @Terence
Sorry, I have bean into holiday and at the moment I´m to busy with my work. There is no time left for open source… A new Version will come in the middle of next month.
Has development work stopped? Activity on this board recently certainly seems to have stopped. Shame, its a great plugin.
Hey Sven, got a problem with 1.2.4 beta on WP3.0/BP 1.2.5.2 – everything works fine for BP, but its missing title and keywords on the blog home page, which is a static page, and the blog itself, which is at http://virtualcrowds.org/blog – the way I have gotten round it is to run All In One SEO at the same time. Is there a fix for this or am I doing something wrong?
New Version 1.2.3 is out now, Thanks to all for the Bug reports and feedback.
thanks for the plugin. I´m using it, but i can not see any changes in the titles
thanks for the plugin. I´m using it, but i can not see any changes in the titles.
Hi, how do I put the search phrase as the title of the page? If I for example search among the members on the site, to find all members located in a specific city.
This is what I wish to receive:
title: Members | Cityname
Hi Sven,
I am using your plugin on my site, and I really like all the available options! So keep up the good work. The latest release does not work, so I am still playing with 1.1.
However, it does not work on the directory page: This page. I had it working earlier, but when I updated to 1.2, I never got it back to the previous settings.
I just want to be able to add a title on that specific page… All others work just fine. Any suggestions?
Hi Sven,
Great plugin! two questions –
1. when we used the new version clicking on the “Save changes” button didnt do anything.
2. I tried the older version – I couldnt get the plugins page to work. any tips or insructions on that one?
Thanks
Hey Sven.. are you not using it on this site? I’m seeing WARNINGs for missing description and missing keyword tags.
My shame, this site has no SEO at all… It’s my private blog…
But you are right, I should use it here also for testing purposes..
Thanks for pointing me on this.
Meta Inspector tells me that you’ve SEO’d your site and everything looks fine!!! I wish my site looked so good from the meta point of view but whenever I activate 1.2.2 beta on my WP3 RC1 site, I get “Fatal error: Cannot redeclare curpageurl() in /home/virtualo/public_html/wp-content/plugins/forum-attachments-for-buddypress/forum-attachments-for-buddypress-bp-functions.php on line 139″. Any advice for me?
from the error I can see its a conflict with the plugin forum-attachments-for-buddypress. I will try to reproduce this error and let you know…
It was a conflict with the same function name curPageURL. New version will fix this.
Version 1.1 is a tested stable version for bp 1.2.3 and wp 2.9.2. Please use this one. 1.2.x is in development and I won’t have time before next week to continue on this plugin.
Thanks for the feedback.
Is not working with Bp 1.2.3 and WP 2.9.2,do you have any new build or do you plan to update it?
Hello Sven,
I totally dig the concept behind your plugin and the settings panel is pretty cool, but… ;-)
I have one considerable problem with figuring out how to setup the plugin (from the templates point of view). I am running :
- WP MU 2.9.2
- BuddyPress (latest version)
- BuddyPress Template Pack
- AllInOneSeo
- Seo title tag (don’t know why, I might take it out)
Here is the thing, my header only has this Title code in it :
AllinOne works fine with this set up, but obviously not for BuddyPress pages. I just don’t understand how to insert both the bp_page_title() and wp_title() in my single header.
I know this might sound silly but I really want to be able to use your plugin. Theres just no question as to how useful it is.
Please help :-)
Sorry I just can’t get the code to show up…
if (function_exists(‘seo_title_tag’)) { seo_title_tag(); } else { bloginfo(‘name’); wp_title();}
You have to change your buddypress header.php to
and in the user blog theme header.php
The rest is done by the plugin.
If you have custom values from All in one Seo Pack, the plugin will use these values.
Seo title tag you do not need, it’s all done already.
But I only have 1 header.php
Wouldn’t it be easier to put an “if” statement between title tags? At least it would only have to be in one place…
What would the syntax be for such an if statement?
Thanks for your help,
C.
Running latest BP including WP single 2.9.2.
I have activated your plugin but it doesn’t work
See it here: http://mediapress.co.za
it doesn’t seem to add keywords, descriptions or change the title tag.
Hi AntonRSA,
please let me know what bp version you use.
Which template? I will figure this out, Thanks :)
Do you have the same problems with the 1.1 version?
I’d love a new feature… Sometimes I have a hard time figuring what all the page editing options are for. So maybe link to the page in the admin panel that each thing controls?
Great idea I will add it into the next version
Version 1.2.1 beta
Plugin is now ready for WordPress and WordPress MU without Buddypress | Added new Meta fields for post and pages | Compatible with wpSEO and AllInOne Seo Page Meta data
version 1.0.8 is out now, with a lot of bug fixes.
And I am really happy to read this article, have a look:
http://wpmu.org/optimize-buddypress-for-search-engines-with-the-newly-updated-seo-plugin/
Hey, this version is superb! The %%forumtopictitle%% now works! Great! But please check this page: footballfantalk.com/players-teams/lionel-messi
How can I let the group name appear in the title instead of the slug? I’ve inserted %%currentcomponent%% in the plugin’s settings, but it still shows the slug “player-teams” instead of the group name.
How can I change that? :) :)
again, very nice work on this plugin – love it.
here’s a feature request:
now that i have the latets version installed, my register page doesn’t show a title. would be cool if you could include the /register page in your plugin.
thanks, jochen
Hi Jochen,
I will add register page to the next version.
Thanks for pointing me on this.
Plugin’s just what I was looking for (latest BP 1.2.3), but one problem — on individual forum topics, %%forumtopictitle%% shows the title of the most recently commented-in topic thread, not the one currently being viewed!
I was to much in a hurry last week.
I will look into the %%forumtopictitle%% more proper on Monday.
Great plugin! Oh by the way, is the thing resolved now for the %%forumtopic%%? Because I wanted to use it but it displays the latest topic in the forum instead of the current topic’s title as title page. I hope it will be fixed soon… Otherwise, your plugin is outstanding!
will be fixed today
Hey thanks, by the way.. I wanted to ask you… What tag should I use if I want page titles to display the name of my groups, group wires, group forums, group members etc… I tried to use the tag %%componentname%% but it didn’t work… How is that?
%%currentcomponent%% Replaced with current component
%%currentaction%% Replaced with current action
Okay, thanks… But when I insert %%currentcomponent%%, the slug appears instead of the group name. Could that be my site’s setup or what? If yes, could you please provide a little bit of help here… Any suggestion? Or it’s just a small update for the plugin which is needed… Thanks.
Found 0.6.9 to be incompatible with Headspace2. We’re seeing duplicate title and description tags on published pages. BP 1.2.3 Was this new version tested with Headspace?
It should if you select
“Will allow plugins to modify generated excerpts”
under Headspace/Options
But I haven’t tested it yet.
Hi Sven
Thanks a lot for this new version of your plugin. Should it work on the non WPMU version? In the release notes only WPMU is mentioned. In the past you replied that this new version will work for the non WPMU version.
Thanks a lot for your help.
Werner
It works with wp and wpmu
Seo for Buddypress 1.0 beta
This is the first beta of the 1.0 version.
This version is a complete rewrite of the old plugin.
It has a new logic, and much more functionality.
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/seo-for-buddypress.1.0beta.zip
If you update from an old version, please go to the settings page and click on “Update Database”.
bug report and feature requests go in here please.
I’m thinking about to add the following features into the next versions:
- Nofollow control
- Image-title and alt-tag management
- Letter and word counter for the meta edit pages
- Add meta description in the post edit screen
If you have any suggestions, please contact me.
Does your plugin replace “Platinum SEO Pack”? Right now I’m using this but it does not write titles etc. for the BuddyPress groups, forums, etc.
The 1.0 version coming soon. Wait for this one.
Thanks for the update :)
Any chance this will be released for normal WP+bp? It doesn’t seem to work on the standalone version. There’s no link for it on the dashboard.
Yes, I´m working on the 1.0 Version, coming out in the next days.
Support for single wp will be added.
Next week, Monday, March 08, 2010 I will start rewrite the plugin for 1.2.
I extra blocked this time to support Seo for Buddypress.
So, around next weak, there will be a new version available.
:-Sven
Excellent :)
Any news to make SEO for Buddypress compatible with bp 1.2?
Plugin is broken in bp 1.2
I will have a look into it soon as possible.
I have to much work at the moment. So it won’t be before and of February
Hi Paul, please check the new version and let me know!