Invalid hentry implementation in WordPress pages

[gorgoglionemeister]

In WordPress pages, the Entry element (hentry) implementation is invalid, missing the required updated and author fields. It causes errors in Google Search Console.

[dshanske]

This issue keeps coming up on various themes. Maybe this is something that needs more education overall.

[Volnus]

I can explain hentry markup.The markup tells Google the author, the date, and other information regarding the post. The issue is in WordPress we don't normally show the date the page was created or last updated this is because we don't need to they are static content. Also, the author information for pages is useless to readers.

What can be done is strip the hentry markup for pages.. Hentry markup looks something like this.

If we normally call the title of a post like this

<h2 ><?php the_title(); ?></h2>

The hentry markup would look something like this.
<h2 class="entry-title"> <?php the_title(); ?></h2>

the class is equal to the specific markup we are using.

SOOO the way to fix this is to either display the metadata for the pages or to simply remove it from pages and use a different class to handle the styling.

[dshanske]

I've proposed this in Core. Too many people rely on hentry even though it is improperly applied. It can be adjusted in a specific theme though

[grappler]

This is the core ticket https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/28482
A possible fix for this Automattic/_s#860

[karmatosed]

Do you have a patch we can use for Twenty Sixteen to test @Volnus ?

[karmatosed]

Noting we're still waiting on a patch here.

[proweb]

It lasts many years in all wordpress themes(and in _s too), and I don't understand why it still not solved