why am I getting this error? Missing: author Missing: updated? In wordpress ?
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Hi
When logging into Webmaster tools located in the structured data we have 68 errors – Missing: author
Missing: updated?We don’t have the coded version of WordPress & all of the solutions I can see online require a coding edit.
We have CELA theme & the latest addition of WordPress
Just wondering if anyone has experienced this issue?
Thanks
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Hi ecoscoot, I’ve got the same problems.
All my pages giving “Missing: Updated” (147 items)
also giving “Missing: author” but only static pages (because in my blogs there are 5 static pages more)
I don’t know why, I search a lot in the forum and some users say about adding code to solve that, but I don’t know how.
It appear very strange that every topics the wp happy engineers (or like that), don’t give an clear answer to solve the problem. I understand a lot of people have this problem.
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First – I am not a coding expert. I had the same missing author and updated on all my posts. After adding the following code to my functions.php page (just before the ?> at the end) it eliminated many of the problems. The solution was seen on http://www.drafie-design.nl/correct-hatom-errors-in-google-webmaster-tools/
function add_suf_hatom_data($content) {
$t = get_the_modified_time(‘F jS, Y’);
$author = get_the_author();
$title = get_the_title();
if (is_home() || is_singular() || is_archive() ) {
$content .= ‘<div class=”hatom-extra” style=”display:none;visibility:hidden;”><span class=”entry-title”>’.$title.'</span> was last modified: <span class=”updated”> ‘.$t.'</span> by <span class=”author vcard”><span class=”fn”>’.$author.'</span></span></div>’;
}
return $content;
}
add_filter(‘the_content’, ‘add_suf_hatom_data’); -
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@ecoscoot (or any of you who are having the same issue) — can you get a screenshot of what you’re seeing and upload it to your Media Library so we can take a look? We’ll be trying to duplicate it here as well.
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This is link of screenshot what I seen on my google webmaster tools
http://i.imgur.com/1I7Gcfz.png?1
It seems I got this miss author error only on tag pages but when I checked with Structured Data Testing Tool I got nothing ! it showing all good !
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Thanks @yazeed85, I’ll keep trying to duplicate this here. If anyone else can upload screenshots so we can see similar data regarding other wordpress.com sites, that would help, too.
And thank you too, @colinwood2013. While that advice applies to WordPress.org installations, we will use it as reference in our troubleshooting.
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Thanks for that. I have duplicated this on my site and confirmed that the overview page shows errors. The detailed view from the test looks fine, though, and includes the expected data. I’ll make a note of this nonetheless. Cheers, all.
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Will you each also list the link to your site and the name of the theme you’re using currently? I think that may be helpful as well.
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Thanks, if anyone else would like to list their site with this error I will note those too.
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Thank you, Loris. Noted.
Since the “test” for each of these comes back fine, I wouldn’t worry about it too much, but I am tracking the issue anyhow for you and will let you know what I find out.
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You bet. It might be a while since (according to the tests) nothing is actually broken, but I’ll write back here when I have more info.
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Here’s what we found: Google’s newer testing tool recognizes that these pages are not blog posts / news articles. When you test individual pages or portfolio items, you’re using the newer testing tool, which does not look for updated dates or authors or other blog-centric information. That is why you won’t see errors there.
I’m not sure why the main page continues to test the pages as news articles, but since they test fine individually, you can be assured that Google is not penalizing you.
If you see this error on a blog post (generally these will have a date in the Page URL) let us know. But if you see this error associated with a page or portfolio item, please click through to test the live data, and if that passes, the page is structured properly.
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