Title: Issues with Structured Data in Webmaster tools
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Issues with Structured Data in Webmaster tools

 *  [albert85y](https://wordpress.org/support/users/albert85y/)
 * (@albert85y)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-structured-data-in-webmaster-tools/)
 * Hi there!
 * To begin with, after a week of researching, reading through lots of different
   solutions..I simply gave up.
 * The problem (I’ve realised this has been affecting quite few WordPress sites),
   are the errors as per example below:
 * Error: Missing required field “entry-title”.
    Error: Missing required field “
   updated”. Error: Missing required hCard “author”.
 * Google rich snippets tool shows over 100 of these errors on various pages on 
   our site, I couldn’t find a working solution anywhere.
 * We use WordPress theme called Kickstart, which I guess made things complicated
   as is slightly different. All solutions I’ve found where for more common themes
   🙁
 * Any ideas please?
 * Many thanks!

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-structured-data-in-webmaster-tools/#post-5432356)
 * Ideally, you need to modify all of your theme’s templates so the output provides
   everything Google is looking for. You normally would want to create a child theme
   to do this, but I believe theme forest themes are implemented as children, and
   you cannot create grand child themes. Do not directly edit your theme’s templates.
 * You might find filters you can use to provide the fields that Google wants. Hook
   the filters from your own custom plugin. For tags where no filters are available
   you’re out of luck. Either ignore Google’s complaints or switch to a theme that
   you can make a child theme from.
 *  Thread Starter [albert85y](https://wordpress.org/support/users/albert85y/)
 * (@albert85y)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-structured-data-in-webmaster-tools/#post-5432491)
 * There must a a way of doing it in bulk instead of amending all records – by the
   way – how can I do that?
 * Thanks
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-structured-data-in-webmaster-tools/#post-5432540)
 * Sorry for the slow reply.
 * Yes, the appropriate SQL query could find tags in need of update and then update
   them. I personally hate to run open ended update queries, a small mistake can
   make a real mess of things. Of course I back up my DB before hand, but still…
 * I prefer to write a PHP loop to find the appropriate records and make changes
   one by one. It’s much slower, but I’m much more comfortable with PHP than SQL.
 * That still doesn’t solve the problem for new posts that a template change could
   correct. You could hook on to one of the actions that fire when a post is saved
   and run a script that searches for appropriate tags and inserts attributes. String
   manipulation scripts are inherently weak, but you have little recourse if you
   cannot create a child theme.
 *  Thread Starter [albert85y](https://wordpress.org/support/users/albert85y/)
 * (@albert85y)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-structured-data-in-webmaster-tools/#post-5432549)
 * Thanks for replying bzworkz. However quite frankly I don’t have a clue about 
   hardcore (in my opinion) SQL or PHP coding. I just wanted to get a few lines 
   of code to apply to my theme. There’s a bunch of solutions online, but none of
   them worked or/and with Kickstart theme. I’m a bit hopeless 🙁
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-structured-data-in-webmaster-tools/#post-5432555)
 * Right, if you do not understand something, of course it appears “hardcore”. Unfortunately,
   this sort of code involving string search and replace needs careful testing (
   IMO anyway) on the actual data to be sure everything works properly. Especially
   when the results are saved back to the DB. It’s beyond the scope of these forums
   to do testing on other people’s sites and data.
 * Perhaps someone else is willing to provide untested code that should work for
   you, but I’m not comfortable doing so. Sorry, best of luck to you.

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