Title: Missing field “itemListElement”
Last modified: May 11, 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-3/)
 * Using this plugin to show breadcrumbs in website navigation.
 * 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/”>
   
   <span class=”home current-item”>Gremlin’s Blog</span></div>
 * Any idea how to fix this?
 * This is the reply I got when asking in a different plugin’s topic (wasn’t 100%
   sure which plugin is the “culprit”) – suggesting a fix, though I’m not really
   sure where to put the suggested code:
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-field-itemlistelement-2/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-field-itemlistelement-2/)
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fmissing-field-itemlistelement-3%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Thread Starter [Bike Gremlin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bikegremlin/)
 * (@bikegremlin)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-field-itemlistelement-3/#post-12835946)
 * Solved the problem using some custom code in functions.php, so no longer using
   a plugin for breadcrumbs display.
 * Seems to make no problems with Google now.
 * So marking this as resolved.
 *  Plugin Author [John Havlik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtekk/)
 * (@mtekk)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-field-itemlistelement-3/#post-12836752)
 * Yeah the second code snippit he suggested won’t actually work. You can’t have
   breadcrumbList items that lack a URL, it will cause an error. The most correct
   thing to do is not display a breadcrumb on the home page (there literally will
   not be a trail as there will only be a single breadcrumb). Beyond that, there
   are ways of trying to add a URL to an unlinked breadcrumb, e.g. for your “Home
   Template (unlinked)” you need to use:
 *     ```
       <span property="itemListElement" typeof="ListItem">
           <span property="name">Home</span>
           <meta property="url" content="%link%">
           <meta property="position" content="%position%">
       </span>
       ```
   

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 * Last activity: [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-field-itemlistelement-3/#post-12836752)
 * Status: resolved