Hey there Discourse team, I am totally new here and I love what you have done so far. I noticed that when someone replies to a thread created in Discourse forums that answer is marked as an Article with microdata. This comes up as invalid at Google’s Testing Tool since it is missing a few markups …

@tolkin reported to me that Google is still showing posts as invalid: [image] The image requirement is bizarre. It needs to be an image of the item (the post in this case), not an image contained in the post (which usually won’t exist) or from some metadata about the post. Google’s tool should be…

I cannot be sure, but it appears the only change that was made to the code was to change the schema type from Article to DiscussionForumPosting, which doesn’t solve the problem. The change did not include the Google required attributes: author: missing and required This could be the poster name …

My screenshot is from Google’s tool. I added the heading today, but the image attr doesn’t make sense.

For what it’s worth, there are SEO advantages to getting this feature in place, based on this article: [image] Neil Patel's Digital Marketing Blog Your #1 resource for digital marketing tips, trends, and strategy to help you build a successful online business. …

[image] neil: @tolkin reported to me that Google is still showing posts as invalid: [image] codinghorror: Seems like they are still required : For now I would just change the schema type as DiscussionForumPosting seems much more correct. Yes. I just changed the schema type for now.

Looks like the latest version recently fixed the errors. :grin: [47D9618A-9A93-4BC8-BD8B-3FA1DF4233E3]

Hi Discourse team, First of all, I am new here, so I hope I am doing well posting here for a bug. I tried to find an existing topic before to post a new one but I did not find anything, so I am sorry in advance if such topic already exists. Do not hesitate to link it or do whatever is necessary. T…

Hi Discourse team, I posted my question about two weeks ago. I assume fixing microdata will take a certain amount of time but since I got no answer yet I allow myself to ask you if the fix is on track and when it could be released ? Thank you in advance for your work and your reply.

Are all 61 errors saying the same thing? <div itemprop='itemListElement' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/ListItem'> needs to have a “position” attribute?

Google Structured Data -- Invalid Article Schema

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vinothkannans (Vinoth Kannan) March 3, 2017, 3:20pm 18

Yes. I just changed the schema type for now.

Different schema type for Topics and Posts

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Google Structured Data -- Invalid Article Schema

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