Title: Authors Markup
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Authors Markup

 *  Resolved [davepancakewarriors](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davepancakewarriors/)
 * (@davepancakewarriors)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authors-markup/)
 * I’ve been having some problems with rich snippets and it displaying photos properly.
   I went through and removed the microformat/hentry from the theme code because
   I read about all those issues.
 * Today I contacted google support and they stated my markup looks great, however
   the data coming back from the plugin for the author isn’t what google is looking
   for for schema.org markup.
 * I’m just wondering your thoughts on this, how I can fix it, or if it needs to
   be fixed. I’d really like to get my rich snippets working – though I know it’s
   not a guarantee for google to display them.
 * Appreciate your help!
 * The value that it is getting is:
 * <span itemprop=”author”>Pancake Warriors</span>
 * What it should be:
 * <span itemprop=”author” itemscope itemtype=”[http://schema.org/Organization”><span](http://schema.org/Organization”><span)
   itemprop=”name”>Pancake Warriors</span></span>
 * Full post here between me and google support:
    [https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/webmasters/structured-data/79kWzNhcSOI](https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/webmasters/structured-data/79kWzNhcSOI)
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 *  Plugin Author [Jayce53](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jayce53/)
 * (@jayce53)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authors-markup/#post-5595773)
 * There is no need (and indeed on most blogs it makes no sense) to specify a recipe’s
   author as an “Organization”, unless of course the author really _is_ an organization
   _and_ you want to specify other attributes of the organization in sub elements
   of “Author”.
 * You can verify that the markup is correct on the structured data test tool, where
   it happily accepts text as the value of Author. You can also see how Author is
   marked up in the microdata example at the bottom of the page at [http://schema.org/Recipe](http://schema.org/Recipe),
   which is the definitive specification of this schema.
 * The same thing applies to times and dates in schema.org markup – although times
   may be instances of Duration and dates may be instances of Date, there is no 
   requirement that they have to be explicitly specified as such.
 * There must be literally hundreds of thousands of pages with recipe markup generated
   by EasyRecipe, that show rich snippets in the search results, so you can be confident
   that is does work 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [Jayce53](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jayce53/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authors-markup/#post-5595773)
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