after google authorship test i find this on page result
“Error: Missing required hCard “author”.”
how to fix?
Note:
for anybody running into this issue, and not using an SEO plugin …
in your user setting for author:
be sure to put in your info like so:
https://plus.google.com/1234567890/posts
with this theme do not do:
https://plus.google.com/1234567890/posts?rel=author
as the theme inserts for you in the footer the rel link for Google+, however if you add the rel=author, the theme will print this
https://plus.google.com/1234567890/posts?rel=author?rel=author
which will not pass the author link test back to your G+ page.
Hope that helped 🙂
Hello,
Thanks @neotrope for the help.
Hi – I am just building a site and admittedly not as well read on this topic – but I get the hCard author problem too – however, with the Google structured data test, I pass the authorship and publisher validation – but I get the hCard in the following area:
Extracted structured data
hatom-feed
hatom-entry:
entry-title: Orlando Email Marketing Services
updated: December 4, 2013
bookmark:
name: Orlando Email Marketing Services
rel: bookmark
url: http://www.greggonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Email-Marketing-Services.jpg
Error: Missing required hCard “author”.
To my understanding, this is not a big deal (for me) because this area is for things like tagging a recipe or review, etc….
Is my understanding correct? Or is this something I need to worry about.
I have problems too with the author google plus. ITS not showing at Google, but testing it everything looks fine. Before using the newspaper template i had no prblems. I hope somebody can help.
tarquisti
be sure to put your Google Author URL into the “user account” box for the author being specified on the post(s) under the wp > users section (not part of theme).
You might also try using a plugin like Yoast SEO which puts all the fancy meta data in the header for social media. I used to run an in-house plugin, but now we just use Yoast as those folks have it all in there for the social media tools, XML sitemap, etc.
TIP: go to a post page on your site, and do “view source” in web browser to see the code for your post, and at very bottom there will be a line for Google Authorship like so (this has my author account at G+ obviously)
<a href="https://plus.google.com/+ChristopherSimmons/posts?rel=author"></a>
If you don’t see that in your source code for your author account at G+, then make sure you have your author name in your user setup.
Hello Christopher,
We use the plugin: http://wp-buddy.com/products/plugins/google-authorship-wordpress-plugin/
Never had problems.
rel=”publisher” href=”https://plus.google.com/103781373361537691189/posts” /><link
rel=”author” href=”https://plus.google.com/u/0/103781373361537691189″ />
Everything looks fine when we use the Google tool:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.voedingsdomein.nl%2Fstress-voeding%2F
If it looks right in the source code for your page – only way to check – then it’s an issue on Google’s side.
Note again the theme will may insert a blank author code if you don’t expressly enter that for each user account. So, LOOK AT YOUR SOURCE CODE for published posts and see if the element is properly showing up at bottom of your pages.
If it’s empty and you’re using a plugin, you may need to comment out the element in the theme php file.
Upshot: if you have it in head one way, and theme is putting in footer as “blank” that might cause issue. If you have it one way in your head, and another way in the footer (e.g., xxxx/ in heade and xxxx/posts in footer that would cause problem).
“view source” on your post page to see what is actually being “printed” in the webpage to check for all instances of the google author tag(s) to sort out where the conflict is.
Hope that helped :-0
Hello Christopher,
Still no results. We had no problems before using this template. Everything seems right.
Maybe you can see/analyse the website http://www.voedingsdomein.nl
We chafed the Google Plus picture, maybe it’s a new update = better picture.
We really want to have this Google plus picture in the Google search, hope you still can help us!
Ciao !
Hi, Tarquisti
I don’t work here, just helping out while my other monitor is doing something (I work with two Apple 23-inch LED IPS cinema diaplays side by side at angle… sometimes I’m waiting on something and go surfin’ … like here).
Anyway, I looked at one of your smoothie articles, and did see you had correct info in head
<link rel="author" href="https://plus.google.com/+MelissaAlbers" />
and based on that matching in the footer from theme field
<a href="https://plus.google.com/+MelissaAlbers?rel=author">
However, for our sites, we found we had to add the /posts to get “seen” properly, as so:
<link rel="author" href="https://plus.google.com/+ChristopherSimmons/posts"/>
It shouldn’t make a difference, I suppose, but try it and see if it works. 🙂
(AND: this presumes you’ve got to your Google+ account and are pointing your Albers account at the website.)
Hello,
as I said on themeforest – it looks like the metadata is working ok with your site: http://screencast.com/t/m18WKsou however we will investigate this further.
@Christopher the author works better with /posts at the end? I will look more at this issue. We should make a live site with our theme and see how we show up in google 🙂 . We are in the process of changing the single.php .
ps. Dual displays are the best 🙂
Hi Radu
the other reason we found the /posts worked better is that it’s the “public facing” page for the G+ account unless somebody is already in your “circles.” (TRY the URL without /posts — Google will do a redirect to /posts !). So, this also helps with on page links or other referential uses from the wp admin > user > user account > social media fields. For whatever reason it’s the method that seemed to work when the author option was first rolled out, so we’ve stuck with it. “Your mileage may vary.”
Dual monitors – not sure this FB photo is publicly reachable, but let’s try shall we:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/954774_10151456063618435_1875947256_n.jpg
I modified loop-single.php to
<span class=”vcard author”>
<span class=”fn”> <?php echo $td_mod_single->get_author();?></span>
</span>
Its working fine for hentry errors. Now no errors.
kewl!
@nicoms91 i did not had to change any thing in the loop-single.php,after no one answer me i went and figure it out on my own,and what i done is enable the author box in my post and make sure the name match the one on my google account and in a week all my errors went away…
thanks Steven. In my case that is not possible, since I had to change every author post to match the category (category:weightloss author:weightloss), since Facebook now present your ads like this: “URL | by author” and I dont want that. For this reason I cannot set up the author box to match my g+ account.
Thanks anyway
Also, as noted the other day, Google has completely retired rel=author, so those still following that aspect of this thread can consider that topic completely and forever closed as the rel=author tag for Google no longer is relevant to anything Google does.
