Title: Missing field “itemListElement”
Last modified: May 9, 2020

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# Missing field “itemListElement”

 *  Resolved [Bike Gremlin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bikegremlin/)
 * (@bikegremlin)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-field-itemlistelement-2/)
 * Made a relatively new, “test” website, with very few plugins – mostly in order
   to give The SEO Framework a good, realistic test before pushing it to all the
   other websites.
 * So far quite good, but I got this report from Google Webmaster tools (Search 
   console):
 * Missing field “itemListElement”
 * It seems to affect only the home page.
    When I click on the “culprit” page in
   the Google’s console, it shows this marked with red:
 * <div class=”breadcrumbs” typeof=”BreadcrumbList” vocab=”[http://schema.org/”&gt](http://schema.org/”&gt);
   
   <span class=”home current-item”>Gremlin's Blog</span></div>
 * I did install Breadcrumb NavXT plugin for showing breadcrumbs in the navigation.
   
   The Google’s notification did show about a week after having installed that plugin.
   Even though disabling it and running the check (“validate fix”) doesn’t seem 
   to get it “cleared” – so I’m not sure that it is causing the problems (nor that
   it isn’t).
 * Any idea how to fix this – in case it even is something to worry about in the
   first place?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fmissing-field-itemlistelement-2%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Sybre Waaijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cybr/)
 * (@cybr)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-field-itemlistelement-2/#post-12813186)
 * Hello!
 * This error notice is quite new. We also face it on our website for our custom
   HTML breadcrumb implementation.
 * In your case, that error is related to the NavXT plugin’s breadcrumb output. 
   The cause for the error is because there’s no item in the breadcrumb list. You
   can rectify this via its settings.
 * The correct output should be this, where the ListItem is annotated:
 *     ```
       <div class="breadcrumbs" typeof="BreadcrumbList" vocab="http://schema.org/">
       <span property="itemListElement" typeof="ListItem"><a property="item" typeof="WebPage" title="Go to Home." href="https://blog.bikegremlin.com" class="home"><span property="name">Home</span></a><meta property="position" content="1"></span>
       </div>
       ```
   
 * If you don’t want to add a link, then this should work as well:
 *     ```
       <div class="breadcrumbs" typeof="BreadcrumbList" vocab="http://schema.org/">
       <span property="itemListElement" typeof="ListItem"><span property="item" typeof="WebPage" class="home"><span property="name">Home</span></span><meta property="position" content="1"></span>
       </div>
       ```
   
 * If you require guidance in implementing this, then I suggest reaching out to 
   [NavXT’s support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/breadcrumb-navxt/).
 * I hope this helps 🙂 Cheers!
 *  Thread Starter [Bike Gremlin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bikegremlin/)
 * (@bikegremlin)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-field-itemlistelement-2/#post-12815540)
 * Thanks. 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Bike Gremlin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bikegremlin/)
 * (@bikegremlin)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-field-itemlistelement-2/#post-12835560)
 * Seem to have fixed the problem by removing the plugin – using custom code in 
   child theme’s functions.php. For now, google is not complaining.
 * Code is here:
 * [https://io.bikegremlin.com/14941/seo-framework-vs-yoast/#4](https://io.bikegremlin.com/14941/seo-framework-vs-yoast/#4)

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 * Last reply from: [Bike Gremlin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bikegremlin/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-field-itemlistelement-2/#post-12835560)
 * Status: resolved