‼️ Plugin & Feature is deprecated.

  • autoschieber

    (@autoschieber)


    4 weeks, 1 day ago

    Deprecated: Since November 2024 Google doesn’t support the schema for the Sitelinks Search Box anymore: developers.google.com/search/blog/2024/10/sitelinks-search-box?hl=en
    After more than ten years Search Advocate John Mueller confirmed that the feature will be retired and the searchbox will not appear in the SERPs anymore. Plugin should not be installed.

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  • Plugin Author apasionados

    (@apasionados)

    4 weeks ago

    Hi @autoschieber,

    We know this but we really don’t know the best way to remove the plugin from the repository. If we ask to close it, all the active installations will not get notified and will have it active “forever”. There is no way to notify sites that the plugin is no longer needed or ask them to deinstall it.

    Following the post from Google Developers you mentioned we decided to keep it active as there is no need to remove it:

    While you can remove sitelinks search box structured data from your site, there’s no need to do so. Unsupported structured data like this won’t cause issues in Search, and won’t trigger errors in Search Console reports.

    We will update the readme.txt file with this information.

    If you know a better way to handle this, please let us know.

    Best regards from Spain.

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