Google Webmaster Errors – Posts w/hAtom r missing "author" & "updated" class

  • Fist Full of Crisco

    (@fistfullofcrisco)


    9 years ago

    Hi there. Saw another post where u fixed bugs! Awesome. felt i should bring up a problem i found that should be quick to fix for ya too.

    I noticed in Google Webmaster (Search Appearance > Structured Data > hatom (markup: microformats.org))” your theme triggers errors on every single page (which uses the hatom structure). Google indicates that each of those page is missing the “author” and “updated” hatom class values.

    What is strange is outside Webmaster using Google’s very own Structured testing tool it says its “all good” but u can still see the fields are missing (its like this external tool is ignoring thse missing fields). But in Webmaster it keeps reporting that these two missing fields are resulting in critical errors and must be fixed.

    From my quick readings it seems your content.php, content-single.php, and maybe(?) content-search.php (there could be other files or maybe i am mistaken and could be other files instead) are missing these hatom values:

    <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn"> around the author’s name

    <span class="date updated"> around the post date/time

    I believe this is what Webmaster is looking for? The errors seem to be on every is_single()” type page and also the front page, categories, tags, archives.

    Hope this will be fixed before your next new release since i noticed in the other post you just updated and so maybe this can be a quick addition to it as well.

    Happy to elaborate if need be.

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  • Thread Starter Fist Full of Crisco

    (@fistfullofcrisco)

    just an update…from tests you may need to include “published” with the “date updated” thing because i notice by default you have in yuor css to display:none when “updated” is used as a class…so the line would be:

    <span class="published date updated">

    Mark Simmons

    (@hostmarks)

    hello Fist Full of Crisco,

    thanks for the information that you’ve given… we will try to figure this and fix as soon as we can.

    cheers

    Thread Starter Fist Full of Crisco

    (@fistfullofcrisco)

    Hi Mark! No t a prob. I went ahead and made my changes into your theme and its all now verifying 100% clean in Webmaster, so no rush.

    Hm i have the same problem and didn’t find the solution in the content.php?!
    anybody can help?

    Not sure if you are still interested or have moved on but the 3 files the OP is referring to is:

    content-single.php
    content-search.php
    inc/template-tags.php

    You’d want to add the “updated” class in something like say a <time…> tag for the first 2. For the 3rd file just append to $posted_on variable to include the author class, etc. Sorry for not going into detail because 9 out of 10 times people who ask questions in these forums (not just for this plugin) tend to never return for the answer so i’m just saving myself time.

    Hi there Kimberly. Ty for your answer. I Still checking here for answer so no worries. I’m very uncertain because the time tag in content-single.php and content-search.php i found looks not like an updated one.

    And for the author link i didn’t find anything where i can add it.

    That’s why i ask here because Fist Full have done it already, Mark will know what to do and me not xD.

    So when u know what to do kimberly (where i must add what xD) it will be very nice xD.

    The explanations on other themes are much bigger :/ .

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