What is the purpose of BFA Custom Fields?

http://library.gc.cuny.edu/aleph/BFA_custom_fields.jpg

Is it for SEO?
If so, how does it interact with other SEO plugins etc?

What is the function of these BFA Custom Fields?

How do they influence SEO?

How do they interact with SEO plugins?

Thanks

Custom fields are part of how WordPress works. I suspect a Google search for "Custom Fields" may give you some insight.

But I assumed they were part of BFA because they are called BFA custom fields.

They are part of BFA. The ...meta... ones are used when you use Atahualpa's SEO - they are unused if you use an SEO plugin.

The bfa_ata_display_body_title gives you the ability of having the single post page titile different than the title that shows for the post on a multi post page.

How do they custom fields interact with categories? For example, if I currently search my site:

http://library.gc.cuny.edu/

with the term 'biology'

all pages marked with the category biology will be returned.

If I use BFA Custom Fields and meta description, keywords and title which takes precedence, categories or the Atahualpa's SEO meta custom fields?

I've never tried it, why don't you do some tests and let us know your results

I have and cannot figure it out. What is the SEO's algorithm?

The algorithm is if you set 'Use Bytes For All SEO options?' to yes abnd don'tuse an SEO plugin and you use the meta keyword, meta title or meta description custom field, then when the page is generated teh meta description and meta keywords will be used in a '<meta name=...>' element and the meta title will be the page title.

I tried testing on development site and this does not appear:

http://library.gc.cuny.edu/aleph/BFA_custom_fields.jpg

in pages dashboard.

How to access?

Thanks

how did you try testing? IE what did you do, please be specific

Is the SEO for search engines or search engines and Wordpress site search?

SEO is for the search engines, wordpress search is wordpress related not theme related. Do a google search for more info.

Oh, makes sense. How to make Wordpress search more accurate?

That is a quqestion you should ask at wordpress.org.