Eric Nagel

How to Replace “All in One SEO Pack” with “WordPress SEO” by Yoast

Eric Nagel

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Years ago, I created a WordPress blog and chose the All in One SEO Pack plugin to handle my post title tags and meta descriptions. Later on, I learned of WordPress SEO by Yoast and used it on all of my other blogs. Yet this early site still had the other plugin installed, with lots of data.

Today, I replaced All in One SEO Pack with Yoast’s WordPress SEO, and kept all of my customized title tags and meta descriptions. Here’s how:

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  1. Install WordPress SEO & activate it
  2. Backup your database. Specifically, wp_postmeta
  3. Run 2 sql commands: 
    update wp_postmeta set meta_key='_yoast_wpseo_title' where meta_key='_aioseop_title';
update wp_postmeta set meta_key='_yoast_wpseo_metadesc' where meta_key='_aioseop_description';
  4. Deactivate All in One SEO Pack
  5. Remove All in One SEO Pack
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That’s it! Now you can use all of the other features in WordPress SEO by Yoast with all of the data you originally entered while running the All in One SEO Pack.