Schema markup breadcrumbs error

  • Resolved meg28

    (@meg28)


    3 years, 12 months ago

    Hi! Google search console is showing error: Breadcrumbs > Missing field “item” (in “itemListElement”). That error comes from automatically generated schema markup with plugin SEO Yoast. This post with error has Yoast schema default for posts which is Web Page. Is there any way you can fix this error? I know when you put this code Yoast SEO generates into Schema markup validator, it doesn’t show any error, but Google search console does. Can you fix it somehow, or is there a way I can disable this Web Page schema markup without deactivating whole plugin?

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  • Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    3 years, 12 months ago

    Hi Meg,

    Thanks for reaching out regarding your breadcrumbs schema.

    I checked the page via the Google Rich results testing tool and noticed the same error as you have mentioned. When I looked into the source code of the page, I noticed that all the meta tags, even from Google Analytics, are also occurring twice within the source code. Due to these duplicate codes, Google validates both schemas of breadcrumbs as a single one, and due to that, Google is showing the errors for the breadcrumb with the specific error.

    These duplicate codes and tags would mostly be because of using wp_head() twice on the respective page files by your theme developer or the theme which you are using is adding all the tags within the <head> </head> twice for the respective pages. It could also be some errors within the theme. As other plugin meta tags are also occurring twice, can you please contact your theme developer to look into this case?
    You can search the <head> within the page source code and can find out all the codes that are duplicating.

    Therefore, I recommend that you perform a conflict check to find out whether the theme or any plugin is causing the duplication of all the <head> codes within the respective page. The fastest way to rule out any conflict, is to deactivate all non-Yoast plugins and switch to a standard theme like Twenty Twenty.

    Please test this on your development or staging site, if you have one. If not, we recommend using the Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin. This plugin has a troubleshooting mode, which does not affect normal visitors to your site.

    If you’re unfamiliar with checking for conflicts, we’d like to point you to a step-by-step guide that will walk you through the process: How to check for plugin conflicts

    If you do not feel comfortable to do this yourself or if this does not solve your issue, our Yoast SEO Premium plugin comes with one year of (technical) support.

    I hope this will give you some pointers

    Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    3 years, 11 months ago

    This thread has been marked as resolved due to a lack of activity.

    You’re always welcome to re-open this topic. Please read this post before opening a new request.

    Thanks for understanding!

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