Title: Structured Data Error in breadcrumbs
Last modified: March 21, 2017

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# Structured Data Error in breadcrumbs

 *  Resolved [Stegosource](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stegosource/)
 * (@stegosource)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/structured-data-error-in-breadcrumbs/)
 * Hi, this is a great plugin but I was just doing some research in Google Search
   console and found some errors on my pages.
 * Looking into it more, I found that the issue was from this plugin. Some of the
   markup is set up for structured data which is great, but it’s missing some required
   info.
 * I was using this tool to test: [https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/u/0/](https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/u/0/)
   and the error that Google gives back is
 * “Unspecified Type (The [@type](https://wordpress.org/support/users/type/) is 
   required and cannot be an empty string.)”
 * Is this something that can be fixed in the plugin or something we have to do 
   ourselves?

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 *  Thread Starter [Stegosource](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stegosource/)
 * (@stegosource)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/structured-data-error-in-breadcrumbs/#post-8940440)
 * I just did a search through schema.org to get some more helpful data on the [@type](https://wordpress.org/support/users/type/)
   property and did not find anything :/
 *  Plugin Author [John Havlik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtekk/)
 * (@mtekk)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/structured-data-error-in-breadcrumbs/#post-8941917)
 * Do you have an example of a page with this issue? Since BreadcrumbList compliance
   relies on what you are using for your breadcrumb templates, if something was 
   changed incorrectly (e.g. a typeof=”” was dropped), you may have issues.
 *  Thread Starter [Stegosource](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stegosource/)
 * (@stegosource)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/structured-data-error-in-breadcrumbs/#post-8944833)
 * Yeah so this page for example: [https://www.heisingsimons.org/emergency-relief-efforts-support-san-jose-flood-victims/](https://www.heisingsimons.org/emergency-relief-efforts-support-san-jose-flood-victims/)
 *  Plugin Author [John Havlik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtekk/)
 * (@mtekk)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/structured-data-error-in-breadcrumbs/#post-8950743)
 * How did you add the “What’s New” breadcrumb? It has a relative path in its anchor,
   which is something Breadcrumb NavXT normally does not do. This breadcrumb happens
   to be missing `property="item" typeof="WebPage"` which is what Google’s Structured
   Data Testing Tool is complaining about.
 *  Thread Starter [Stegosource](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stegosource/)
 * (@stegosource)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/structured-data-error-in-breadcrumbs/#post-8953316)
 * Ah OK. Yeah, that’s my bad. It was a settings issue on our end. Sorry for the
   false alarm and thank you for the support 🙂

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