Yoast WP Plugin - Social - G+ Author

[evolvingSEO]

Hi Dan

I would select "don't show" for the blog home page author. Authorship is really only for indivdual posts and articles.

[Dan-Lawrence]

ok great thanks, now changed to 'dont show'

i take it now i have set wp user with G+ profile whenever a post is added with byline then authorship will be automatically ?

cheers

dan

[evolvingSEO]

Yes exactly. Set the author of each post in the post editor, and be sure that author has his/her G+ profile link in their user settings.

[Dan-Lawrence]

marvelous many thanks

[Dan-Lawrence]

Now i'm looking in GWT under 'Search Appearance' > 'Structured Data' and its saying 18 items with errrors:

data type = hentry

source = microformats.org

So i click on 'items with errors' and it then lists most pages saying:

missing: 'author' & 'updated'

Does this not matter since not applying 'author' OR since not applying it should't be showing error message ?

cheers

dan

[evolvingSEO]

Hi Dan

This is another type of markup that is ending up on the page - maybe it's another plugin or it's coded into the theme? It's telling you for the 'hentry' the author and updated fields are missing. Unless we know how the hentry card is getting there to begin with, it's hard to say what needs to be done.

[Dan-Lawrence]

ok thanks, any ideas what process to follow to identify where its coming from ?

also as a side note/question , i see GWT has a data highlighter tool, is this not a much easier quicker way of adding structured data without need for plugins such as Yoast or Ravens schema creator since can just go round site tagging stuff within data highlighter ?

many thanks

dan

[evolvingSEO]

Hi Dan

Check your source code and do a Cntrl=F search for "hentry" and see if you can spot the code and any indication of if it's a plugin or where it's from. It would either be a plugin or coded into one of your theme's files (like post.php or header.php etc)

I think the data highlighter is for less code savvy folks - I have never used it, but I would give it a try as an alternative. Before you go tagging stuff, I would determine if/what on your site actually needs to be tagged too

[Dan-Lawrence]

Thanks again !!

As you can probably tell i'm not code savvy

Will do !!

All Best

Dan

[Dan-Lawrence]

Sorry 1 more related question re: a question/thread i started yesterday but no ones answered hence would greatly appreciate it if you could have a very quick look and let me know your opinion, link & question copied below ?

THIS HAS NOW BEEN ANSWERED OVER ON THE THREAD SO NO LONGER NEED AN ANSWER BUT ANY COMMENTS RE ADDING PRICE/OFFERS APPRECIATED: http://moz.com/community/q/schema-description-wordcount-guidelines

[Dan-Lawrence]

this is all i can see, since post related presume its to do with a theme ?

id="post-19" class="post-19 page type-page status-publish hentry">

[evolvingSEO]

Look near the code and see if there is indication if it was added by a plugin - or see if you can find "