Micro Data Errors

  • Resolved benh_82

    (@benh_82)


    9 years, 9 months ago

    Hi Guys, im using your plugin with the Avada theme i purchased and have some issues with the structured data your plugin produces.

    When checking my pages in webmasters tools the event pages are missing certain markup which is giving these pages errors in my console.

    I need to either completely remove the “Event” markup your plugin creates or complete the missing fields.

    I did some research online before coming here as i thought this issue would have been picked up on before but i didnt find anything recent.

    Ideally, id like the developers at the events calendar to add the missing fields to the backend of the events pages so they can be filled out and stop giving the event pages errors.

    The errors im getting for Events are;

    The property Free is not a valid price specification.

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

    The errors im getting for hcalendar are;

    A value for the dtstart field is required.

    A value for the location field is required.

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

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

    It seems that the plugin also creates a load of archive pages which also have errors. I can probably set these to not be crawled by google but if your plugin is setup to produce structured data it should have all the required fields to fill out. Otherwise google is flagging all the content created with the events calendar plugin to have errors.

    Im not an expert in structured data markup. Im not sure how it works in regards to these errors?

    Is it better to have your websites content marked up with structured data even if it produces errors and is not complete compared to not marking it up at all?

    Thanks Guys any help would be appreciated.

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  • Thread Starter benh_82

    (@benh_82)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks guys, i have opened the same ticket with Theme Fusion.

    Not too hopeful it will be addressed though. If i cant fix the errors i may have to look at using an alternative solution for creating events on the site which is a shame.

    Its also a shame that Avada theme and the events calendar dont work closer together in regards to updates. If Theme fusion/avada dont keep up with the updates being made with the events calendar plugin whats the point?

    Thanks again, Ben

    Geoff Graham

    (@geoffgraham)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks a ton, Ben! I appreciate the heads up and the follow-up as well. 🙂

    We do have an open line of communication with the fine folks over at Theme Fusion — they’re a wonderful group of people. I think the issue is that there are so many other teams, themes, plugins and WordPress updates all around that make it extremely tough to coordinate everything in perfect harmony. I know the Theme Fusion team does it’s best to package the latest updates of our plugin into Avada, but I can imagine it would be very tough for them to drop all they’re doing every time we issue a release, which is roughly every other week.

    Cheers to you though for being on top of it!

    Geoff

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