Schema with two types

Hello @divvy

Thanks for the kind words & for reaching out about your site schema. The Web Page page type is for a normal web page and it’s our default setting for Pages while Collection Page page type is for a page which contains a list of other pages; such as a post archive or blog overview.

Can you confirm what you chose in WordPress > Settings > Reading > Your homepage displays?

Hello @divvy

Thanks for following up. I assume that when you first checked WordPress > Settings > Reading > Your homepage displays, it was set to A static page. This means you had a page set as your homepage and another as your posts page. If this is correct, the homepage should have the web page schema, while the posts page should have the collection page schema.

To clarify, currently, what do you have the homepage set to display? Is it Your latest posts, or a static page. Please provide us with screenshots that highlight the issue you are experiencing. You can use any image-sharing service like https://pasteboard.co/, https://snag.gy/, https://imgur.com/, https://snipboard.io/, or even upload the screenshot to your website. Once you upload it to an image-sharing service, please share the link to the image here.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by Maybellyne.

Hi @divvy

A CollectionPage is a type of WebPage, so we display it in an array. If you’d like to make any modifications to the default Yoast SEO schema output, you can refer to our Schema API for more information.

Please note though that we won’t be able to help provide feedback on what sort of custom code changes you’ll need to make, but feel free to make modifications as you see fit to your site – https://developer.yoast.com/features/schema/api/

Hello @divvy

You have both WebPage and CollectionPage page type because you have switched around the schema. Both are now stored as an array. Also, CollectionPage is a subtype of WebPage. There should be no cause for concern unless there are warnings. For the example site you shared, they definitely stuck with the default and didn’t change things.

We also mentioned that by overriding the defaults, you may alter your schema markup in ways that don’t make sense or that are incomplete. And we are constantly improving the schema implementation in our plugins.

Hi,

We know that a WebPage can be transformed into a CollectionPage when it meets certain criteria, such as default post category pages – https://developer.yoast.com/features/schema/pieces/webpage/#transformations

However, it doesn’t mean that if you have a static homepage and you set the schema type to ‘CollectionPage’, it will output it as such. It won’t cause any issues or errors when validating the schema in the schema.org validator or Rich Results Test, as it is valid to place it in an array as such.

Again, if you want to set custom schema, and if it isn’t outputting as you’d expect with the default settings in the Yoast SEO plugin schema graph (such as really enforcing that it outputs only as ‘CollectionPage’ and not an array with WebPage), you can modify it through custom code in the Schema API.