Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected Token

info2grow
(@info2grow)

11 years, 2 months ago

After enabling the plugin on our site http://www.naturaldermis.com we started getting console errors on the homepage. Only if a user visited another page and then came page to the homepage. The error caused half the page not to load.

The error pointed to this script on the homepage

<script type=”application/ld+json”>{ “@context”: “http://schema.org”,”@type”: “WebSite”,”url”: “http://naturaldermis.com/”,”potentialAction”: {“@type”: “SearchAction”,”target”: “http://naturaldermis.com/?s={search_term}”,”query-input”: “required name=search_term”}}</script>

We had to disable the plugin.

Any ideas what would cause this?

https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/wordpress-seo/

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coachie
(@coachie)

11 years, 1 month ago

Hi Info2grow, how did you fix it?

Thread Starter info2grow
(@info2grow)

11 years, 1 month ago

Never heard back so we uninstalled it.

coachie
(@coachie)

11 years, 1 month ago

Thanks for the reply info2grow.

I did following, knowing that this is not clever because of updates coming.

file: wordpress-seo/frontend/class-frontend.php

//echo “<script type=’application/ld+json’>”, json_encode( $this->data ), ‘</script>’, “\n”;

//$this->output( ‘website’ );
anuj-kumar
(@anuj-kumar-1)

10 years, 12 months ago
I faced the same issue, and have been able to resolve it.

Looks like the browser isn’t able to recognize ld+json format outside the body tags of the page. The plugin adds the data before the body tag, and hence the error. If the structured data is written inside the body tags, it works totally fine.
Initially I tried using a try catch block as below:
```
var t = {
    //json data
};
try {
    jQuery.globalEval(t)
} catch (e) {
    console.log(e)
}
```
but Google wasn’t able to understand this, so I had to revert the changes.
Then after more hits and trials, I was able to fix it:
file: wordpress-seo/frontend/class-frontend.php (Version: upto 2.1.1)
Line: 1914
```
echo "<script type='application/ld+json'>", json_encode( array($this->data) ), '</script>', "\n";
```
which has been verified to work, although, I would really appreciate if someone could provide a better fix than this.
It is strange, how such a major issue went unnoticed from the plugin development team. Let’s hope they fix it soon.

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