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  • I’m looking to migrate all my old posts that use Auto Meta plugin to use All in One SEO Pack instead. AiOSEO provides a more robust and elegant control over meta tags and title, and unlike AM it creates a valid feed.

    Has anybody found a quicker way to do this than cutting and pasting and changing the format in every single post?

    For Example:
    AM uses “keyword-one keyword-two”
    AiOSEO uses “keyword one, keyword two”

    I’ve got hundreds of posts and I shudder to think how long this would take to do by hand. Does anyone have, or could make a script to convert posts?

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  • Thread Starter mishko

    (@mishko)

    Well I seemed to solve this one on my own. It was a fairly simple process, in the end, of some Search and Replace queries to the database.

    I logged into phpMYAdmin to access our wordpress database and compared what a database looked like with AutoMeta installed to what a database looked like with All-in-One-SEO-Pack installed (I have multiple sites/blogs). To my surprise it was fairly similar. All the fields called “autometa” with AutoMeta installed were called “keywords” with AioSP installed. They both used the wp_postmeta table in the database, which was a good thing.

    Here are the Search and Replace queries I used:
    1)

    UPDATE wp_postmeta
    SET meta_key=(
    REPLACE (meta_key,
    'autometa',
    'keywords'));

    The above query searched the wp_postmeta table within the meta_key column for anything labeled autometa and changed it to keywords.

    Second I updated my titles (I used SEO Title Tag with AutoMeta, but AIOSP does both) that were named “title_tag” (because of SEO Title Tag) to just “title”.
    2)

    UPDATE wp_postmeta
    SET meta_key=(
    REPLACE (meta_key,
    'title_tag',
    'title'));

    Again, this searched the wp_postmeta table within the meta_key column for everything labeled “title_tag” and renames it “title”.

    So now the only thing left was to change the format of the values of these keyword fields. All my AutoMeta keywords were formatted as “keyword-one keyword-number-two keywordthree”. Notice AutoMeta uses dashes to mean spaces between keywords and spaces to denote a new keyword. But All-in-one-SEO-Pack (AioSP) uses normal formatting like this “keyword one, keyword number two, keywordthree”. So I had to do two queries to change all that and use a special WHERE command with the query.
    3)

    UPDATE wp_postmeta
    SET meta_value=(
    REPLACE (meta_value,
    ' ',
    ', '))
    WHERE meta_key='keywords';

    This searched the wp_postmeta table within the meta_value column for every ” “(blank space) and replaced it with a “, “(comma space) with the special condition WHERE meaning only do this to the meta_value column if the corresponding (same row) meta_key column says “keywords”.

    So now replace all dashes with a space in those same fields. You can see that this should be last because if you did it before #3 then it would create blank spaces to where #3 would replace with a comma space.
    4)

    UPDATE wp_postmeta
    SET meta_value=(
    REPLACE (meta_value,
    '-',
    ' '))
    WHERE meta_key='keywords';

    Again this searched the wp_postmeta table within the meta_value column and replaced all dashes “-” with a space ” ” but only WHERE the meta_key equals “keywords”.

    This is from someone whose never done an SQL query, but looked it up online. Of course I made sure to backup my database first. 🙂 Thankfully it was all successful.

    I hope this helps anyone else out there converting / migrating from the AutoMeta plugin to the superior All-in-one-SEO-Pack plugin.

    Since a few releases ago, All in One SEO pack can seamlessly include Auto Meta keywords, so you don’t have to do any conversion, it just works.

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