Set the “Profile” schema to default WordPress “author” pages

  • Resolved betweenu

    (@betweenu)


    4 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    We want to add the “profile” schema to wordpress author pages.

    Is there an easy way of doing it?

    When I try to edit the author page, the only Yoast settings available are:
    – Title to use for Author page
    – Meta description to use for Author page
    – Do not allow search engines to show this author’s archives in search results.
    – Disable SEO analysis
    – Disable readability analysis

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  • Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    4 years, 8 months ago

    Hello,

    Thanks for reaching out.

    In the Schema tab of the Yoast SEO metabox, you can change the page option from the Webpage default to Profile page. You can learn more at https://yoast.com/help/selecting-content-types-in-schema-settings/

    Thread Starter betweenu

    (@betweenu)

    4 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    That’s the problem. When I edit user pages, the Yoast SEO metabox is not showing.

    I only have these Yoast settings available:
    – Title to use for Author page
    – Meta description to use for Author page
    – Do not allow search engines to show this author’s archives in search results.
    – Disable SEO analysis
    – Disable readability analysis`

    Plugin Support Michael Tiña

    (@mikes41720)

    4 years, 8 months ago

    Hi @betweenu

    Yes, the Yoast SEO meta box doesn’t appear when editing the user profile page.

    But just to clarify, our Yoast SEO schema output should automatically alter the author’s page into ProfilePage by default. You can check it out here – https://developer.yoast.com/features/schema/pieces/webpage/#profile-pages

    Could you check and confirm if that is also the output when viewing the schema output on one of your author’s pages?

    Thread Starter betweenu

    (@betweenu)

    4 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    I can see this on the source HTML of the author pages:
    {“@type”:”ProfilePage”,”@id”: …..

    But when I run the page on Google’s rich results test tool (https://search.google.com/u/2/test/rich-results?id=komWxgKsOe_jQlYfOYB8sQ)
    The only items it detects are “breadcrumbs” and “sitelinks searchbox”

    Plugin Support Michael Tiña

    (@mikes41720)

    4 years, 8 months ago

    Hi @betweenu

    Upon checking the author page you’ve mentioned, we do see that it is outputting the ProfilePage schema type as expected.

    Also, when running it through Google’s Rich Results, we can confirm it is eligible for the ‘breadcrumb’ and ‘sitelinks searchbox’ rich result. This doesn’t mean that it isn’t outputting the ProfilePage schema, the RRT is letting you know that with the schema on that post or page, that is the eligible rich result that can output.

    You can learn more about it here – https://yoast.com/google-rich-results-testing-tool/

    devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    4 years, 8 months ago

    We are going ahead and marking this issue as resolved due to inactivity. If you require any further assistance please create a new issue.

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