John Havlik

Yes, your “Home Template” needs to have %htitle% replace with Home.

Breadcrumb NavXT 6.4 itself isn’t going to fix the Google search console issues. It is going to introduce a new feature that allows you to add the link/url ID to unlinked breadcrumbs for those who want that. Fixing the search console issues is site dependent, what is known to work when the current item is not linked are the default breadcrumb templates that Breadcrumb NavXT 6.2 and newer ship with (in general, this means your unlinked templates need to be <span>%htitlte</span> without any itemprop or associated attributes). The changes in 6.4 will make it possible to include the URL/ID so that the schema.org markup can be included in the unlinked templates.

As for the release date, Breadcrumb NavXT 6.4 is slated for the end of October. I am most of the way through implementing the link/url change (still need to work through a couple of unit tests that fail).

In the linked page, your anchors are missing the itemprop="item" attribute that is required when using the microdata formatted BreadcrumbList (see Microdata example on https://schema.org/BreadcrumbList).

For the unlinked template, you don’t want to have the extra information, that is, instead of: <span property="itemListElement" typeof="ListItem"><span property="name">%htitle%</span><meta property="position" content="%position%"></span> you want <span property="name">%htitle%</span>.

As for the Google Search Console, be aware that fetching a URL vs pasting in HTML will result in different results (a bug it has had for quite a while). As for which one is correct, I don’t know for sure.

For the home page, the best bet when using an unlinked current-item is to just not have a breadcrumb trail there (as it is a single breadcrumb, which apparently, Google doesn’t show anyways). Currently, my site has the same single error. For 6.4, there will be a way to add the id for the unlinked breadcrumbs and everyone can move to adding the schema.org syntax back to them (and this problem will then go away).

@lewisray: Since everyone’s situation boils down to one or two things that they need to do, I am not feeling it necessary to reply to every single comment in this topic. The setting value that @rom174 is suggesting probably works the best for now, or if you have not ever set any of the Breadcrumb NavXT settings, you can do a reset (under the Help tab), which will load the default settings, which will not have this issue (as of 6.2.0 and later).

@kiam123: For what you’re showing, it looks like your template settings are a bit amiss/very old (assuming you are using Breadcrumb NavXT). Have you changed any of the settings? If not, I suggest doing a settings reset (as long as you are using Breadcrumb NavXT 6.2.0 or newer) by visiting the Breadcrumb NavXT settings page, clicking on the Help tab, and then navigating to the “Import/Export/Reset” form in the left side menu of the help drop down, finally press the “Reset” button.

Oddly enough, something similar, for a different reason came up recently. Essentially, wp_kses is stripping it out. See https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rdf-schema-markup-for-unlinked-template/#post-11953582 for an outline of how to handle/deal with this. Also see https://mtekk.us/archives/guides/how-to-add-li-and-other-tags-to-breadcrumb-templates/ for an example of using the bcn_allowed_html filter.

As for Google recognizing the last breadcrumb (the one for the current resource), I’m not sure that matters. The current item, as far as I’m aware, does not show up in the search results listings. Or, is there something I’m missing (very possible)?

• This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by John Havlik.

As far as I can tell the ‘resource’ attribute is non-standard (if you have some documentation on it that you could point me to, I’d appreciate it). Since it is not in the allowed list of tag attributes, the wp_kses() function called in the bcn_breadcrumb class is removing it. If you want to add it as an acceptable attribute, hook into the bcn_allowed_html filter and add it into the appropriate tags. Ssee https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_kses/ for information on wp_kses(), also see Breadcrumb NavXT’s breadcrumb-navxt.php file for an example of using the bcn_allowed_html filter.