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The PHP error log is empty. I did the check to ensure it was working.

The sites I’m seeing the issue on are using the free version. I have several other sites on the paid version and they are working fine.

I also used WP Rollback to revert to the previous version of UDP, no joy, so put it back to the most current.

FYI, none of these sites have been updated to WP 5.8.

All of them are on LiteSpeed servers, and all but one are on the same WHM account, so the server settings are the same across the board. All are at PHP 7.4 CloudLinux too.

As mentioned in my original post, what I pasted is the entirety of the log. It’s super short.

We just finished all of our other fixes and cleared all caches yesterday, plus regenerated the critical CSS. That seems to have fixed it!!
Thank you for your help

Thank you so much for the quick reply!!

I’ll have my client regenerate the critical CSS and we’ll purge cache everywhere.

Thank you, Torsten. I’m happy and sad to hear this news.

I did remove the URL field yesterday, still getting spam bots today.

I was wondering if the lack of that field would eventually make my site less of an attractive target. But I’m guessing that any authority site will continue to be on lists for bots to hit forever, regardless of whether that field is actually there or not.

Even though it may not be a deterrent, I believe I will leave that field out so that my site gives no backlinks for commenters, even nofollow ones.

Thanks for the quick reply.

Just curious why schema would be output for something that is not there.

Yes, have already done so.

Thank you for the link.

I’m using the WP Mail SMTP plugin on this site and noticed issues related to such plugins on the link you sent too.

When I checked into it, saw the WP Mail SMTP plugin had logged the error below, and is likely the source of this issue.

EMAIL DELIVERY ERROR: the plugin WP Mail SMTP v2.5.1 logged this error during the last time it tried to send an email:

Mailer: Gmail
{
“error”: “invalid_grant”,
“error_description”: “Token has been expired or revoked.”
}
Please re-grant Google app permissions!
Go to WP Mail SMTP plugin settings page. Click the “Remove Connection” button.
Then click the “Allow plugin to send emails using your Google account” button and re-enable access.

Thank you for the quick reply to help me know where to start looking for the issue.

I’ve been using Yoast on this site for years and do annual audits, including SEO audits on it.

But, I have made changes to the site since the last audit with both plugins and theme changes.

Was hoping the clone, with all plugins off and different, standard theme would have helped identify a conflict. So, yes, frustrated that it did not and will take deeper checks.

I’ve already emailed support and hopefully we’ll get to the bottom of it soon. Sent them this ticket to reference all that has been done and checked, so not a waste of time, and won’t have to start from scratch again.

Thanks to everyone for your help. We know lots that’s not wrong with it!!

I appreciate the help – but it’s not helpful if folks are replying without following the thread and looking at the links and info that have the latest changes.

It’s like starting from square 1 constantly instead of methodically troubleshooting the issue.

And waiting for a bug to get fixed that is already 7 months old is not acceptable. I’m loosing SEO ground every minute of every day.

I purchased the SEO premium plugin just so I can hopefully get more methodical help, as I believe we have reached the end of what we can do here, with ruling things out as much as possible.

As stated, I appreciate the help. And hopefully folks replying or seeing this will read the thread and perhaps add something that has not already been tried and eliminated as a cause.

I ran a header check on the newest post I created and don’t see any caching in it at all.
It’s this post https://ba.myblogaid.net/test-post/
Results are below.

I also contacted my host, as I’m on a Litespeed server, but not using LSCache, and they confirmed there is no server-side caching on anywhere, including the clone site. I also verified that it is Disabled in the cPanel.

So, how is WP Fastest Cache and server-side cache affecting it, and what link are you checking on? Hopefully it is this newest one on the clone.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
X-Powered-By: PHP/7.3.24
Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8
Link: <https://ba.myblogaid.net/wp-json/&gt;;rel="https://api.w.org/&quot;
Link:
<https://ba.myblogaid.net/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/18813&gt;;rel="alternate";type="application/json"
Link: <https://ba.myblogaid.net/?p=18813&gt;;rel=shortlink
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 16:26:23 GMT
Server: LiteSpeed
X-Xss-Protection: 1;mode=block
Referrer-Policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade
X-FRAME-OPTIONS: SAMEORIGIN
Content-Security-Policy: block-all-mixed-content
Alt-Svc: quic=":443";ma=2592000;v="43,46", h3-Q043=":443";ma=2592000,
h3-Q046=":443";ma=2592000, h3-Q050=":443";ma=2592000, h3-25=":443";ma=2592000,
h3-27=":443";ma=2592000

If you read my last reply, you’ll see that I cloned the site, turned off all plugins except Yoast, and switched to the TwentyTwenty theme. This clone is also not on Cloudflare, so there is no caching.

If you look through the rest of the ticket, you’ll see that all of other checks had already been done.

And yes, confirmed I’m on the 15.3 version.

I installed the Yoast Test Helper and did the 2 steps you advised. It returned the SEO data optimization complete message after the 2nd step.

I looked at the GitHub post. I am not a developer and have no way to go into the code at that level.

But, with every other plugin off, and on the TwentyTwenty theme, would we not have eliminated those other issues?

And just to be sure there is nothing in the post itself that could be causing this, I created a new post and had the same test results.

The new post has a title and a paragraph, and all schema settings were checked to be at the same defaults I have already confirmed above.

The new post is here https://ba.myblogaid.net/test-post/

I think we are at the end of eliminating other causes. What else could be checked?

I have cloned the site to a new cPanel so I can do disruptive testing.

This way the site is not on Cloudflare.

All plugins have been deactivated except for Yoast SEO. That includes all of the caching plugins too.

The theme was changed to TwentyTwenty

I tested with Discourage Search Bots on and then turned that off and tested again, so this clone does not get indexed.

This is one of the posts I’m using to test https://ba.myblogaid.net/is-blogging-for-dollars-worth-it/

I ran the post through the Structured Data Testing Tool.
It now shows href too, but it still shows the post as WebPage, not Article.

The Rich Results Tester is the same. It has no loading issues and only detects SiteLinks Search Box in the rich results. It still does not show Article or WebPage.

To answer your questions:

1. SEO > Search Appearance is set to Organization and has all info filled in. If you’ll look earlier in this ticket, you can see that was already checked and verified in the HTML, but is not being output in the schema.

2. All posts have a featured image assigned. I don’t see how to share a screenshot or upload an image in this forum. But I did actually check to verify that the featured image was assigned on the post above, and all other posts I have tested.

3. On the post, in the Schema tab, I set the Article Type to News Article and ran the tests again – no difference in output.

The site is still in the above condition for your further testing/checks

I edited that post and went to the Schema tab and the settings are
Page type – Default for Posts (Web Page)
Article type – Default for Posts (Article)

I checked several other posts as well and they are all the same.

I looked at the requirements and tested in the Structured Data Testing Tool.

Since Yoast is supposed to be supplying all of the article markup, and this post is being seen in the Structured Data Testing Tool as a Webpage, how in the heck could it ever qualify as an article, as it’s not outputting any of those specific article things? They are missing from the Yoast output. It has all of the WebPage schema, just not the Article schema. And that’s the problem we are troubleshooting.

I’m really confused by the suggestion to check those requirements. What would we be looking for?

I manually disabled all plugins except for Yoast and ran checks on several posts. Still no Articles schema on any of them using the Rich Results Tester, and still coming up as Webpage on the SDTT.

I cannot switch my theme to the default on my live site, as it would be too insanely disruptive, so guessing I will need to clone and do more disruptive testing there, unless you have some other ideas for things to check