Artisteer 3 Function Name Change Broke My SEO Code

If you use a pre-Artisteer 3 version of Artisteer then don't upgrade to Artisteer 3 unless you don't need to change the functions in your themes to make up of the failure of Artisteer developers to provide basic search engine optimization (SEO) features. Features like meta descriptions and canonical link tags that should be a no brainer to any competent developer, but seem lost to the Artisteer people require improvements to be made by the customer. Those changes can be made in Artisteer themes themselves by adding new functions to and tweaking out of the box functions in functions.php or by changing header.php using just default Wordpress functions. In my case I changed Artisteer functions that all had the prefix "art_" in the function names, but are all "theme_" now and in some cases entire function names have been changed or removed completely.

In addition I cannot use custom code I built to strip some types of HTML tags from posts because art_get_post_content() is no longer a function. Now I must re-do all my work because some idiot decided to change all the function names.

To make matters worse I could not post a question about this in the Artisteer help forum because I got a XML parsing error whenever submitting my thread. As a result I had to start writing this before losing all my progress due to a power surge and having to write this now all over again. As a result what should have been a simple copy and paste has cost me a half hour of my life due to the forum mishap and power surge alone. Thanks a lot Artisteer.