[Plugin: Taxonomic SEO Permalink] Unfortunately, it is not as advertised…

I had a lot trouble with this plug-in. Firstly, it doesn’t allow you to set custom taxonomies as stated. Instead, it adds 3 taxonomy categories: Semester, Season & Course. The description says that it only adds the terms to URLs that use the taxonomies, but this is not true. It added, /no-course/no-semester/no-season/ to my URLs. If I tried to manually remove the words from a post’s URL via my browser, it couldn’t resolve any of the URLs for blog posts. If I tried deleting the terms on the permalink page, it would re-appear after I saved and then tack on the terms to every single URL. Wanting to see how taxonomies worked with the menu, I added the terms to my site’s main menubar. When I realized this caused all my URLs to break, I deactivated the plug-in to then find my site full of errors on the front page. I couldn’t load any other pages. I suspected this was caused by the menu terms. When I went to check the menu’s config, I couldn’t get back to he “menu” option page in the admin. I had to redownload the plug-in and install it again to access the menu admin. Upon doing this, I had to remove the terms from the main menu. I then had to look for any posts that I may have linked to one of the taxonomy terms, and delete each one. Once all links to the terms were deleted, I was able to deactivate the plug-in without breaking my site. However, I still had to run the permalinks again to get the 3 terms out of each URL. The description says the taxonomy terms would be ignored if a post didn’t use any of them, but this is not true. It simply adds “no-” before each term in a post’s URL. There’s also no way to delete the terms from your permalink structure. It adds itself to whatever pattern you’ve defined, and simply refuses to delete from the url or stored permalink structure.