Olivier Simard-Casanova

Hi @wpsmort, thanks for the explanation.

I find the situation baffling. For years, All In One SEO has received catastrophic reviews for the same reason I gave mine. I will be honest: I was expecting the options you mention to simply not exist.

To my surprise, it turns out that the options do exist. I have a WordPress instance I use to conduct tests. I installed All In One SEO, and yes, there are some sort of options in the wizard.

The problem is that their UI is particularly confusing. After reading your post, I carefully looked for said options in the wizard. As I said, they do exist. But it is not clear, at all, that activating them will install other plugins. It should be made a lot clearer that activating these options will install other plugins. The description text should give the name of the plugins in question, and maybe a link that goes to their page in the plugin directory.

The situation is baffling because it would be simple to fix the confusion — and to prevent other bad reviews like mine from happening in the future. Put a red warning that explains that activating these options will install other plugins. Or move the options to a dedicated screen where everything is clearly explained. It is that simple.

The fact it has not been fixed in almost three years reflects poorly on how seriously All In One SEO treats the feedback that comes from its users.

Best,
Olivier

• This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by Olivier Simard-Casanova.

I continued to investigate the issue, and I found the problem: dates. MailPoet expected dates to be formatted in the US way (mm/dd/yyyy), but it is mentioned nowhere (not in the import tool, not in the documentation).

The email addresses I was able to import succeeded because they had creation dates such as “09/05/2022” — but MailPoet imported them incorrectly. In my CSV file, “09/05/2022” is the 9th of May 2022, not the 5th of September 2022.

I would understand if dates were improperly dealt with if MailPoet were a new-ish tool. But it’s a well-established newsletter solution. It’s honestly kind of baffling that this kind of limitation are still present.

The import tool should offer an option to specify the format of dates.