Author in Schema markup when author is disabled for a post type

  • Resolved adfisch

    (@adfisch)


    2 years, 10 months ago

    Dear SmartCrawl support,

    first of all thank you for your awesome plugin which I use on a regular basis. Recently, I stumled upon the following issues with the Schema markup. Both are due to the fact that authoring information is always included in the markup. However, I think that authoring information should be left out if:

    – the author function is disabled for a certain post type since there is now control over which author gets included in the markup.

    – the user chooses not to display author URIs in the admin UI because there is no real benefit of that information and chances are high users do not want authoring information at all when the URLs are disabled.

    I understand that the author fields are marked as required by Google. However, in the above scenarios I guess it’s better to not pass any information at all rather than potentially wrong information.

    I am looking forward to receiving your feedback. ??

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  • Plugin Support Williams – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support8)

    Hi @adfisch

    I hope you’re well today!

    Yes, this and other properties are there by default because Google marks them as required in specifications.

    However, it’s not “obligatory” in terms of plugin and you can remove them. For example, if you have “”Blog posting” type added to site via “Types builder” in SmartCrawl -> Schema, you can edit it and once you expand the “Author” one (by clicking on the down arrow next to it) you’ll get access the “trash bin” icon that let’s you delete it.

    Plugin will warn you if this property is required by Google but you can still decide to delete it anyway and it won’t be added anymore.

    Best regards,
    Adam

    Plugin Support Nithin – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudevsupport11)

    Hi @adfisch,

    Since we haven’t heard from you for a while. I’ll mark this thread as resolved for now. Please feel free to re-open the thread if you need further assistance.

    Best Regards
    Nithin

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