Problem with Schema with Genesis 2.2

[David Chu]

Hi JS,
I've become the de facto guy around here for playing with attributes. 🙂 You can indeed add or change attribute items on the HEAD tag. Here's an example.

btw, this feature has been there for quite awhile, you can alter or add attributes all over a webpage. It's just that most people don't mess with attributes that much. Look in \lib\functions\markup.php in the framework to see all the possibilities.

Thanks, Dave

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[emmtre]

Nathan found the cause of the problem with the error message and the strange microdata markup.

<main class="content" role="main" itemprop="mainContentOfPage" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Blog">

The Microdata Manager plugin by Brad Potter is not compatible with the new Gensis 2.2 version.

[Brad]

Uh Oh, what broke? That was my very first plugin so it likely needs improving.

[emmtre]

Brad, when the plugin is activeted it ads some microdata to the class="content" which give errors with Google's structured data testing tool.

<main class="content" role="main" itemprop="mainContentOfPage" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Blog">

Google doesn't recognize the property mainContentOfPage for an object of type Blog.

Any plans to update the plugin? I've been using it to easily add microdata markup like AboutPage or ContactPage to improve search results.

[Nathan Rice]

@Brad
I think you need to try to modify the classes ONLY when they need to be modified. If you have a GH repo for this plugin, I'd be happy to try to submit a PR for this.

[Brad]

@Nathan-Rice
Very kind offer and I would appreciate that very much. I've looked at what I wrote 2 years ago (with assistance from Gary) and I'm scratching my head wondering what to do!

I was looking at markup.php and it seems like a lot of changes have happened. My summer break is over and I'm back at my full-time job so I welcome any PRs.

https://github.com/bradpotter/microdata-manager

[emmtre]

Nathan,

I found another possible markup issue. For normal pages this markup is added.

<div class="content-sidebar-wrap">
<main class="content" itemprop="mainContentOfPage">

But mainContentOfPage is only supposed to be used on schema.org/WebPageElement (and it's sub-classes).

So the breadcrumb markup for pages is't recognized as a normal BreadcrumbList by Google's testing tool.

And the whole webpage content is now interpreted as the name of the mainContentOfPage.

[Nathan Rice]

Wow, good catch. Looks like we're using that property all wrong. In fact, we probably shouldn't be using it at all. I'll fix it.

[emmtre]

Nathan,

I installed the develop version from GitHub and it looks better. But I'm not sure we are there yet. The breadcrumbs are now recognized as part of the WebPage for normal pages. But for blog, archive, single post pages, etc the breadcrumbs are recognized as an explicit BreadcrumbList. I don't know if it will have an impact or not. I'll send you an email with some test results to illustrate.

Did you see my other email? The BlogPosting markup is now missing for posts on the front page, blog page set for displaying posts and when using the blog template. Meta and author still get the right markup even if BlogPosting is missing on these pages. The BlogPosting markup is still there and correct for posts in archive and single post pages. I think this is the way the markup should look for all posts.

<article class="post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail entry" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemprop="blogPost">

[cruisegle]

It almost seems that depending on the theme you are using or the Schema (local business etc) you are using; issues arise when you use the testing tool.

Generally I start by testing a design with the testing tool and then remove any ones that throw up faults and correct them in my functions folder.

Some sites require a bit of manipulation.

This is not really a Genesis issue; maybe my own as I want sites to work how I want them to work.

Great input @emmtre

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[Nathan Rice]

@emmtre
I'll paste my email content here for others to see, RE: breadcrumbs:

That's right ... but I think that's the way it's supposed to be.

The difference is that on pages (anything that doesn't get a schema.org/Blog type), itemprop="breadcrumb" isn't valid. So we have a conditional that unsets it. My guess is that when this itemprop is missing, the BreadcrumbList gets orphaned back to a top level element, rather than a sub-element of WebPage.

I'm not sure which is preferred, but breadcrumbs are a relatively new to Schema.org, so I imagine they'll get that worked out at some point. 2.1.x had no support for Breadcrumb lists, so 2.2 is a positive step, even if it's not necessarily perfect.

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As for the BlogPosting issue, this happens for any use of the blog page template, and I believe the reason is that the query we do for posts is not the main query. We have a conditional in our filter that prevents schema from being added to posts that aren't part of the main query (for various reasons).

I'm honestly inclined to not worry about this. We want to discourage the use of that page template anyway, and if I can manage it, I'll get rid of it completely.

[emmtre]

Nathan,

Yes but it's not only for the blog template pages. The BlogPosting markup is also missing for posts on the front page and the blog page set for displaying posts in WordPress settings. And since it's working in 2.2.0 something must have changed in the 2.2.1 version. I think it still needs to be there at least for backward compatible reasons and not to penalize websites that still use the blog template.

[macrunner]

I have read that it will be released version 2.2.1
it is possible to estimate, even approximate, on the release date of this new version?

Thanks

[chardp]

I am having a related issue where I am not getting itemprop="image" on any images on a single post page and these are one i am indexing. I've been playing around trying to fix this to no luck. It adds it fine on the homepage images, but I cannot get it to work on single.

Has anyone else had this issue? I don't know if this is new or not. I only just stumbled upon the error that I am missing an image when using the structured data testing tool

[Nathan Rice]

@chardp

Images that are inserted into the content of a post will need to have that property added manually. Genesis doesn't generate the markup for anything in the post content, so that bit is up to you.

[chardp]

Hmm I never knew that if that has always been the case. No wonder none of my results in google had images.

I thought this might be the case for images inserted into the content, but I was surprised that it wasn't there for the featured image, or couldn't be done programmatically.

[emmtre]

It can be done in different ways depending on your child theme and how images are displayed. You can also use the genesis_attr_entry-image filter to add attributes.

if ( is_single() ) {
	the_post_thumbnail('large', array('class' => 'alignleft post-image entry-image', 'itemprop' => 'image'));
}

add_filter( 'genesis_attr_entry-image', add_image_markup' );
function add_image_markup( $attributes ) {
	$attributes['itemprop'] = 'image';
	return $attributes;
}

[Victor Font]

Here's code that will add itemprop="image" to all the images found within post or page content. I've tested this in my local environment with Outreach pro.

// add itemprop image markup to img tags
add_filter('the_content', 'vmf_add_itemprop_image_markup', 2);
function vmf_add_itemprop_image_markup($content)
{
	//Replace the instance with the itemprop image markup.
	$string = '<img';
	$replace = '<img itemprop="image"';
	$content = str_replace( $string, $replace, $content);
	return $content;
}

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[jamesjd7]

I'm having structured data errors with my install. See screen shots. if anyone can help, that would be greatly appreciated.

see links.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/f33ffp21q27q3xa/StructuredDataErrorDateModified.png?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bsbbge0qtbb1ejb/StructuredDataErrorImage.png?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fje5to0zeg4ewog/StructuredDataErrorMainEntityOfPage.png?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fje5to0zeg4ewog/StructuredDataErrorMainEntityOfPage.png?dl=0

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