# Missing field "itemListElement"

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-itemlistelement/150747
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [May 7, 2020, 5:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-itemlistelement/150747 "2020-05-07T17:47:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![Amanda\_Kelly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/amanda_kelly/32/179679_2.png) [@Amanda\_Kelly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Amanda_Kelly)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2020, 5:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-itemlistelement/150747/1 "2020-05-07T17:47:20Z")

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Google Search Console is giving us a Breadcrumbs issue that is related to our discourse pages. The problem is with: Missing field “itemListElement”. Has anyone seen this before and now how to solve it?

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2020, 9:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-itemlistelement/150747/2 "2020-05-07T21:54:48Z")

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Can you provide a specific link with example?

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### Author: ![Amanda\_Kelly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/amanda_kelly/32/179679_2.png) [@Amanda\_Kelly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Amanda_Kelly)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2020, 10:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-itemlistelement/150747/3 "2020-05-07T22:33:57Z")

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Here’s what I’m seeing:

 ![Screen Shot 2020-05-07 at 3.33.01 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/3/b30e2339493ef3c1b7008acda39f8678e5e8f3f2.png)

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### Author: ![erikmolenaarnl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erikmolenaarnl/32/76132_2.png) [@erikmolenaarnl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erikmolenaarnl)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2020, 8:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-itemlistelement/150747/4 "2020-05-09T08:52:02Z")

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I did some further testing and this affects **only** Topics which are in “ **Uncategorized** ”. I am on 2.5.0.beta4.

The “BreadcrumbList” contains an empty “itemListElement”:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/9/f/9f460485e3dd165588ddaab56311870b9a742ec5.png)

The error also popups here ([meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org)). Have a look at Google’s Structured Data Testing Tool outcome:

[https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/u/0/?hl=en#url=https%3A%2F%2Fmeta.discourse.org%2Ft%2Fthe-state-of-javascript-on-android-in-2015-is-poor%2F33889](https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/u/0/?hl=en#url=https%3A%2F%2Fmeta.discourse.org%2Ft%2Fthe-state-of-javascript-on-android-in-2015-is-poor%2F33889)

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### Author: ![j.jaffeux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/j.jaffeux/32/60297_2.png) [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2020, 9:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-itemlistelement/150747/5 "2020-05-09T09:20:07Z")

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This should be fixed by:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/9720](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/9720)

Will try to get it merged next week.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2020, 6:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-itemlistelement/150747/7 "2020-05-09T18:44:03Z")

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Excellent, thanks for bringing this to our attention @Amanda_Kelly and investigating specifics @erikmolenaarnl.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2020, 7:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-field-itemlistelement/150747/8 "2020-05-16T07:00:07Z")

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