Title: Structured Data Error: Missing: author
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Structured Data Error: Missing: author

 *  [livegrowwrite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/livegrowwrite/)
 * (@livegrowwrite)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/structured-data-error-missing-author/)
 * In the last 3 days I have received 22 items with errors via Google Web Analytics.
   All of them are titled “Missing: Author.” My site is [http://www.livegrowwrite.com](http://www.livegrowwrite.com)
   I am using Pinnacle theme.
 * Why is this happening? And how can I resolve this?
 * Thanks so much!

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 *  [Ben Ritner – Kadence WP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/britner/)
 * (@britner)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/structured-data-error-missing-author/#post-5970789)
 * Hey, Looks like you have “Show author name with posts?” turned off in the theme
   options > blog options.
 * That is why you don’t have the author tag that google is looking for. It’s not
   an error like your site isn’t working it just an error in that google is looking
   for micro data in the post and author is missing. Depending on what your going
   for and how you want google to interpret the site would determine how big of 
   a deal this is. But you can make it go away by simply turning the author name
   back on.
 * Kadence Themes
 *  [Flavia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/floushrofrey/)
 * (@floushrofrey)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/structured-data-error-missing-author/#post-5970908)
 * Hi,
    I have the exact same problem. I am using Pinnacle free. I have now enabled
   the option “Show author name with posts?” in “blog options”. I hope this will
   fix the problem. With regards to Authors, I was wondering if I should enable 
   or disable the option “Exclude user from Author-sitemap” in the User option in
   the WordPress Dashboard. Does this have any impact on the “Missing: Author” message
   on Webmaster? Does this create any conflict with the Pinnacle theme option “Show
   author name with posts?” Thanks, Flavia
 *  [Ben Ritner – Kadence WP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/britner/)
 * (@britner)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/structured-data-error-missing-author/#post-5970913)
 * The “Exclude user from Author-sitemap” is part of an SEO plugin like yoast. it
   only has to do with your sitemap. Not your structured data. Enabling or disabling
   is only determining what will be in your sitemap.
 * Kadence Themes

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 * Last reply from: [Ben Ritner – Kadence WP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/britner/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/structured-data-error-missing-author/#post-5970913)
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