Missing field "location" – Google Search Console

[webero]

Hi,

have the same issue here. It states that the field “location” is missing. I have defined a location for the event, but somehow, google doesn’t accept it.

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Reporting the same issue as: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/events-markup-issues-with-google/

[Mathew]

Hello,

The Events Calendar does not use hentry and hcalendar anymore. It now uses JSON_LD for its markup.

Those errors/entries are coming from your theme. The theme author has customized certain views and dynamically generates these entries.

As a test to see if The Events Calendar is correctly generating the markup, run an event through Google’s Structured Data Testing Tool.

https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool#url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bikethebugles.at%2Fevent%2Fkampstein-uphill%2F

You will see under the “Detected” section one for “Event”. This is the one generated by The Events Calendar. You may see warnings. Warnings are acceptable because those fields may not be applicable in every case. Errors are the ones to look out for.

The other ones labeled hentry an hcalendar are coming from the Enfold theme and the source of the error.

You will need to contact Enfold’s support to resolve the issue.

Hope this helps.

[Courtney]

Hey @webero

We’ve seen an uptick in similar reports. Our developers will investigate this further, but in many cases, there is no reason for alarm. The error message you see is from a legacy format. We now also use JSON-LD data, which still passes all the results along for Google’s rich snippets. Deprecating the now outdated method by us removing the code entirely is bad form. Ultimately, it seems to be a false alarm so far.

We’ll keep you updated as we investigate.

@mathewlewis thank you again for popping in with helpful replies. As we migrate to a new help desk platform, I’ll miss reviewing your insights.

Thanks
Courtney ?

[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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