Google Search Console Structured Data > hentry (markup: microformats.org) errors

[Damien Calvert]

Hi,

My Google Search Console is showing that Author, Entry Title and Update metadata is missing.
How can I fix this?

Thanks

Damien

Example pages:
/event/wicked-the-untold-story-of-the-witches-of-oz-3/2016-12-31/
Missing: author
Missing: entry-title
Missing: updated

/event/sweet-charity/2017-09-15/
Missing: author
Missing: entry-title
Missing: updated

/event/six-dance-lessons-in-six-weeks/2017-11-17/
Missing: author
Missing: entry-title
Missing: updated
Missing: updated

[Andras]

Hello Damien,

Thanks for reaching out to us with your question.

I have ran the URLs through Google’s Structured Data Testing Tool and didn’t see these issues. Can you share a screenshot with me where the issues are shown?

Do these show up as warnings or as errors?

Thanks,
Andras

[Damien Calvert]

Hi,

They are appearing as errors.

Have a look at the screenshot.

Thanks

Damien

[Mathew]

Damien,

The hentry markup is coming from WordPress, not The Events Calendar. It is placed on every post or page with a certain criteria.

Here’s a snippet and the source from within the /wp-includes.

* The class names are many. If the post is a sticky, then the 'sticky'
* class name. The class 'hentry' is always added to each post. If the post has a
* post thumbnail, 'has-post-thumbnail' is added as a class. For each taxonomy that
* the post belongs to, a class will be added of the format '{$taxonomy}-{$slug}' -
* eg 'category-foo' or 'my_custom_taxonomy-bar'.

Some themes have options to leverage or even disable the markup, but I do not think twentyseventeen has the option. There are articles on the Internet on the subject. Google “wordpress hentry” and you will find what you need.

As Andras mentions, the Structured Data Testing Tool results look fine, so that’s good from a search standpoint.

Hope this helps.

[Andras]

Hey Matthew,

Thanks so much for chiming in and sharing all that useful information! That’s awesome and it’s much appreciated!

Damien, I hope that gives a clearer view on the topic. Please, let me know if there’s anything else I can help you with.

Cheers,
Andras

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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