Structured Data Issues

  • Resolved DL

    (@damon18)


    4 months, 1 week ago

    The Google Search Console is reporting that the Eventprime events have issues with their structured data that prevent them from appearing in search results.

    Search Console has identified that your site is affected by 7 Events structured data issue(s). The following issues were found on your site.

    Search Console has identified that your site is affected by 7 Events structured data issue(s). The following issues were found on your site.

    • Date/time not in ISO 8601 format in field “startDate”
    • Missing field “location”
    • Date/time not in ISO 8601 format in field “endDate”

    What can I do to give Google what it wants so my events are indexed? I tried adding a plugin (Smartcrawl from WPMU DEV) to check and add structured data, that worked somewhat but can’t fix the listed format problems.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Nebu John – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudevsupport14)

    4 months, 1 week ago

    Hi @damon18,

    I hope this message finds you well.

    Myself Nebu John from Smartcrawl – WPMU DEV support team.

    The issue with the incorrect date format is likely related to how the EventPrime plugin handles the date. Have you checked the plugin settings to see if you can configure the date format on the plugin end?

    I hope the plugin team can help you with more feedback on this.

    That being said, I would like to review your schema configuration to better understand the “Missing field” issue, as it may be related to how the schema is set up. Can you please open a new support topic here https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/plugin/smartcrawl-seo/#new-topic-0 so we can review it and help you further?

    Best Regards,
    Nebu John

    Thread Starter DL

    (@damon18)

    4 months, 1 week ago

    @wpmudevsupport14 Thanks for your reply.

    For the date format it looks like Eventprime only offers selection for the frontend form entry style in Settings > General, I have that set to 2026-01-20 (Y-d-m) but not sure if that affects how dates are stored.

    I’m actually using Smartcrawl Pro, so I will open a ticket there for you to take a look at my settings.

    Thread Starter DL

    (@damon18)

    4 months, 1 week ago

    Seems the start/end dates in eventprime are stored as unix timestamp values. Evidently Google doesn’t like that and want to see 2026-01-20 (Y-d-m) format instead.

    @eventprime can anything be done about that?

    Plugin Support epsupport1

    (@epsupport1)

    4 months ago

    Yes, EventPrime stores event start and end dates in the database as timestamps.

    However, you can easily display the dates in any format required (for example: 2026-01-20) by using EventPrime’s Layout Template override feature.

    Please follow this guide to override the default template and convert the date format as per your requirement:
    https://theeventprime.com/how-to-override-eventprime-default-template/

    If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us.

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