Why All-In-One SEO Deactivates

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Thursday, 7 January 2010

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In the past I’ve been pretty pissy about the All-In-One SEO plugin from Michael Torbert automatically deactivating itself after updates. My reasoning:

If you update and forget to re-activate (somewhat hard to do since it reminds the shit out of you on every page of the admin), it could cause problems.
We are forced to see Michael’s large promotional/donation blocks up in our faces above where we can reactivate. I’m all for plugin authors making as much money as they can, but this seemed to me a bit too far.
I really like the plugin and use it on all my sites and wish it was closer to my version of perfect.

But Michael recently stopped by to explain his side, which is interesting, so I thought I’d update the record, as it were.

Michael Torbert:
… a site complained that a new feature damaged their site’s search engine results…

By: Chris Coyier
From: Digging into WordPress

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