Hello,
I updated the theme on 24th after a couple of months.
I am now seeing the author is a missing error on structured data. The live data test says that there are no errors.
I am showing the author byline but the author box is disabled because it’s not needed.
Please help us fix the issues. Google removed us from Top Stories after this, and our traffic dropped drastically 🙁
The error is on all sites with latest version. Please help
Hi,
If you removed the author box, the theme will remove the markup. This is mentioned in the theme update changelog
– https://www.screencast.com/t/UmyVBioNxbn
A missing author vcard may result in missing author errors detected as it happened for you. So either enable the author box, or find a different way to include the required structured data.
Thanks
Previously there were requests for the removal of the author vcard from teh page source. Users were mentioning that the author vcard code was appearing in their page source and they wanted to remove it, most of them were not using an author box. So we linked this to the author box, as I mentioned above.
If you want the previous functionality when the author vcard is always displayed in the page source, uncomment these lines of code
– https://www.screencast.com/t/9fpg4aKV
Maybe this will change over future updates.
Yes, please, give us an option.
We are suffering a significant traffic drop because of this change, and tbh, this is not a bug. I can point out millions of big publications using the author name, and no author box and the vcard is in the source code.
Having the vcard for author or any extra structured data does no harm to the site.
I really avoid editing the theme codes.
Could you please ask/check with the developers and release a fix/make it optional, as soon as this month? Please?
You probably can understand my situation. We can’t show author name in articles because a reader is not interested in author’s face or bio, the byline is enough.
I have edited the code,
I have removed these three lines (https://imgur.com/a/OwKyUPG), and saved the changes.
Can you please check once? Thank you.
You can check that by yourself, check in the page source of a post for”author vcard”. Or provide a link to a post on your website so I can check.
We will try to modify this again, or revert to the previous functionality. Sorry for the inconvenience.
@Simion C. It’s not there 🙁
view-source:https://www.windowslatest.com/2018/06/05/asus-zenbook-pro-15-with-windows-10-and-screenpad/
Code is edited properly: https://imgur.com/943P2w3
Why is this not working?
You’ll reply after a while 🙁
The fix that you suggested is not working, and the number of errors are increasing, and traffic is dropping.
What do we do now? 🙁
From what I can see you are missing these lines of code
– https://www.screencast.com/t/8oFSPkdrW
Maybe you removed it, don’t remove it just uncomment it
Commented code – https://www.screencast.com/t/IUvXd37u
Uncommented code – https://www.screencast.com/t/kvdvGGFnyHy
Or update to version 8.8 available at this moment, the modifications were removed, it is the same as before
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/
