Microdata Errors with Event Pages in Webmaster Tools

[Ben]

HI Guys.

Seems that The Events Calendar add Schema / Microdata to the Event pages but when looking at webmaster tools i see i have errors.

The schema data for EVENTS is complete except for the following errors,

The property Free is not a valid price specification. – I Have the numerical value 0 added to each event but its being read as FREE?

The performer field is recommended. Please provide a value if available. – Dont see any option to add this

And i also have errors for the hcalendar markup;

dtstart
A value for the dtstart field is required.

location
A value for the location field is required

dtend
The dtend field is recommended. Please provide a value if available.

url
The url field is recommended. Please provide a value if available.

Any ideas how to remove these errors?

I Purchased the Avada theme which included the Events Calendar plugin. I was really happy with it up until checking the pages last night and seeing these errors.

Im hoping someone has some answers regarding the issue.

Thanks for your time guys,

Ben

[Geoff]

Hi Ben,

Thanks for reaching out! So glad you’ve been using The Events Calendar and that you were introduced to it in Avada — they’ve made some great customizations to our plugin to tailor it to the theme. 🙂

We’d be happy to help and look into this with you — but first, would you be willing to post this over in our WordPress.org support forum? We use this pre-sales forum to answer purchasing questions for folks about our premium add-ons for The Events Calendar, but do a free technical support pass on WordPress.org each week for those using The Events Calendar.

Or, if you have a license for one of our premium products, then please do sign into this site with your account and we’d be happy to help you out in our technical support forums here.

In the meantime, I’ve noted your question and passed it along to the rest of our support team in advance so we can jump in and help in the right forum. 🙂

Thanks so much!
Geoff

[Mathew]

The issue is caused by Avada’s customization of The Events Calendar (TEC) views.

TEC has embraced a more recommended method of delivering Structured Data. The customized views that Avada includes with their theme have not followed suit and are still utilizing the older methods.

Herein lies an issue will forever haunt Avada until a decision is made on the subject.

Avada updates it’s product with less frequently than that of TEC. So the versions of their (Avada) supplied views are behind a few versions and will always be behind the curve.

Within Google’s SDTT, the errors can be clicked on and it will point to the offending code/file.

Again, this issue is purely an Avada issue. Perhaps you may want to open a support ticket with Theme Fusion to help keep it on their radar.

With the release of Avada 5.0 coming very soon, this may be a mute point.

Best of luck.

[Geoff]

Matthew, as always, you are awesome. Thanks for chiming in. 🙂

Ben, I’m going to go ahead and close this thread but please do feel free to open a new thread here (if you have a license) or in the WordPress.org forum if any other questions come up.

Geoff

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