How to fix Google Search Console Structured Data hentry errors.

byjcburt17

207 followers

8 years ago

Hi All,

If you look in google search console and your get errors that look like this:

Then you'll need to do some editing to make them go away. Here's how I did it.

If you haven't created a child theme for the theme you are working with in WP, then I'd do that first. I'm sure there are great posts on here about doing this, but if you don't want to mess with code, then search in the plugins area for One-Click Child Theme:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/one-click-child-them...

This makes using it SUPER simple to create one. The short on why you want this, is say you need to do something to your code that "fixes" an issues such as this one.. editing the theme's code will potentially reverse the changes when they update the theme. Child themes inherit all the core theme features from the parent, and keep your changed parts. = )

So.. after doing this, you'll want to start editing your code. Go to Appearance - > Editor -> and in the top right make sure you're editing your child theme. Then, in your funcitons.php file, paste in the following code to the bottom:

// auto insert hidden hatom data in single posts

add_filter('the_content', 'hatom_data_in_content', 100);

function hatom_data_in_content($content) {

if (is_single()) $content .= get_hatom_data();

return $content;

}

// returns hidden hatom data for current post

function get_hatom_data() {

$html = '<div class="hatom-extra" style="display:none;visibility:hidden;" rel="display:none;visibility:hidden;">';

$html .= '<span class="entry-title">'.get_the_title().'</span>';

$html .= '<span class="updated"> '.get_the_modified_time('F jS, Y').'</span>';

$html .= '<span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">'.get_the_author().'</span></span></div>';

return $html;

}

Next, use the side-bar on the right to find either your page.php or your archive.php file, whichever you happen to have in your theme.

Find the beginning of the <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?> loop.

Next, find the start of the <div there should only be one opening <div in this loop somewhere. After the first opening <div line, past in the following code:

<?php if(function_exists('get_hatom_data')) echo get_hatom_data(); ?>

Now to check it it works!

Go back to Google Search Console and back to the error page. Click on the link of the offending page. You should get a test live data popup.

If it works, you should see quite a few more hentry meta-data referenced on the page. The only thing to do now is to re-index your content, and the errors should be gone.

Cheers!