# Different schema type for Topics and Posts

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/different-schema-type-for-topics-and-posts/71471>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [October 5, 2017, 3:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/different-schema-type-for-topics-and-posts/71471 "2017-10-05T15:02:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![vinothkannans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/vinothkannans/32/86465_2.png) [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 3:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/different-schema-type-for-topics-and-posts/71471/1 "2017-10-05T15:02:58Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [Invalid Article Schema](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invalid-article-schema/57037/18):

Currently we are using schema type `DiscussionForumPosting` for every post in a topic. So if a topic having 5 posts totally then in same page we rendering `DiscussionForumPosting` 5 times.

In this case I think it’s better to use [`DiscussionForumPosting`](http://schema.org/DiscussionForumPosting) only once for whole topic and [`Comment`](http://schema.org/Comment) schema type for remaining 4 replies like below.

```plaintext
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/DiscussionForumPosting">

   <span itemprop="datePublished">10/05/2017</span>
	<span itemprop="headline">Sample Topic Title</span>
	<span itemprop="image">https://meta.discourse.org/image-url9.png</span>
	<div itemprop="articleBody">Topic's First Post Content</div>
    <span itemprop="author">User 1</span>
    
 	<div itemprop="comment" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Comment">
    	<span itemprop="author">User 2</span>
    	<div itemprop="text">Second Post Content</div>
 	</div>
 
 	<div itemprop="comment" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Comment">
    	<span itemprop="author">User 3</span>
    	<div itemprop="text">Third <b>Post</b> Content</div>
 	</div>
 
</div>

```

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