• Resolved Felln

    (@felln)


    Google Webmaster Tools told me that i have hentry errors in the category sites.

    There are missing author, entry-title and updated. In the normal pages and posts it looks ok.

    So it look like a change for the category sites will be fine :).

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  • Hi Felln,

    thanks for using MH Magazine lite.

    These are general notices in the webmaster tools without considering the particular use case. For example the author isn’t even listed on category archives, so there also can’t be structured data for the author.

    Again, these are general notices which don’t affect your rankings at all and you can simply ignore them. The structured data is provided on posts and not on archives where several articles are listed, without all the meta data.

    Thread Starter Felln

    (@felln)

    After the update i looked for this “problem” and it still happens.

    Google webmaster tools don’t call it as notice it call it as failure!
    It looks like it happen because hentry format is on the category archive sites with bookmark: .

    So when there is no hentry complete the error will be gone or?
    When yes, how i remove this from the category archive sites.

    Felln, of course the notices are still shown after the latest update because there were no planned changes regarding this. As mentioned before, the structured data you are looking for isn’t provided on archives, but on posts itself.

    We’re not sure why you care that much about this data as it won’t affect your rankings at all and you can simply ignore the notices.

    However, if you really care about this and want to get rid of the hentry class (which actually is added by WordPress itself) on archives, you can modify the file loop.php and change this:

    <article <?php post_class(); ?>>

    to this:

    <article>

    However, please be aware that we don’t recommend this because WordPress also adds several other useful classes through the built-in function, so you might overthink this.

    Thread Starter Felln

    (@felln)

    yeah sorry but it realy hurts me when i see error on the webmaster tools. The thing is i saw other themes where i had not the problem so i thinked it was a theme problem?! Oo

    Again, this isn’t a problem and the data simply isn’t there. For example you’ll always have the missing author notice on archives, because the author name isn’t displayed on archives, but on single posts.

    Of course it always depends on what kind of theme you are using and how the layout has been structured. For example if you’re using a simple blog theme and not a magazine theme like this one, then archives usually don’t display excerpts, but the full post content including all meta data. That of course is a difference and it’s just a different concept.

    However, in the coming updates there will be some changes regarding the file structure and markup of the theme. Possibly we’ll provide the updated data on archives then and change the class for the title, but there aren’t any plans to add the author on archives.

    And as mentioned before, you probably don’t need to waste your time on this and you can simply ignore the notices because that are standardized notices that don’t affect your rankings at all.

    If you care about rankings on search engines, it’s much more important to focus on high-quality content instead of a notice regarding data that simply isn’t there…

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