logo missing url

Hello Byebye,

Thanks for reaching out about your site’s schema.

Though the Schema Validator did not report any errors/warning, Rich Results Test reports Missing field "url".

I can also confirm two sets of schema outputting for the person/organization – [{"@type":["Person","Organization"]. We have an internal report on this where an issue sometimes occurs when you select the site to be represented by a person and then select organization, and it stores both sets of schema data and causes this error with the author archive.

The only workaround currently would be to export the Yoast SEO settings, remove one of the 2 sets of schema outputting for the person/organization information, and then import the settings back into your site.

We don’t have an ETA on this issue, but please do check for future plugin updates on any bug fixes and enhancements. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

Thanks for the reply.

As I don’t have coding knowledge, please guide me step by step how to do the workaround. Thanks.

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export the Yoast SEO settings, remove one of the 2 sets of schema outputting for the person/organization information, and then import the settings back into your site.
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Hi,

You can follow the steps in this article as you’ll need to export the plugin settings into a file, open the file and it should contain settings that have both the person and organization/company information such as:

person_name = ""
person_logo = "https://localhost:10000/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/avatar500x500.png"
person_logo_id = 5
alternate_website_name = ""
company_logo = "https://localhost:10000/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/test.jpg"
company_logo_id = 6
company_name = "Company Name"
company_or_person = "company"
company_or_person_user_id = 1

You’ll need to test by removing either the person or company information and save the file, and reimport this file. We recommend that you test this out on a staging site and make sure you have the appropriate backups to your site just in case there might be any issues during the importing and exporting.

Thanks for the info.
To reassure my understanding, may you advise the way of removing the setting is as below?

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Original:

person_name = ""
person_logo = "https://mycoffeewiki.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/20201227_151045-1-scaled-e1647846533574.jpg"
person_logo_id = 64
alternate_website_name = ""
company_logo = ""
company_logo_id = 0
company_logo_meta = 
person_logo_meta[] = 
person_logo_meta[] = 
person_logo_meta[] = 
person_logo_meta[] = 
person_logo_meta[] = 
person_logo_meta[] = 
person_logo_meta[] = 
person_logo_meta[] = 
person_logo_meta[] = 
company_name = ""
company_or_person = "person"
company_or_person_user_id = 1

New:

person_name = ""
person_logo = "https://mycoffeewiki.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/20201227_151045-1-scaled-e1647846533574.jpg"
person_logo_id = 64
alternate_website_name = ""
person_logo_meta[] = 
person_logo_meta[] = 
person_logo_meta[] = 
person_logo_meta[] = 
person_logo_meta[] = 
person_logo_meta[] = 
person_logo_meta[] = 
person_logo_meta[] = 
person_logo_meta[] = 
company_or_person = "person"
company_or_person_user_id = 1

Delete these rows related to Company:
company_logo = “”
company_logo_id = 0
company_logo_meta =
company_name = “”

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Thanks!

Hi, yes/no/try?

Thanks.

Please advise the fix. Thanks.

Hi @byebye123

Yes, those look like the correct fields to remove from the settings if you want to retain the person representation and not as a company or organization.

Please do remove those fields (make sure to have appropriate backups to your site!) and then import the settings. You can then check the author archive profile (after clearing cache) and you can check if the ‘person, organization’ hybrid doesn’t output anymore and the errors related to the logo for the schema don’t output in RRT anymore.

Could you check if that addresses the issue?

Thanks for the reply.

After removing those company fields, and click Search Appearance, this error appears: “There has been a critical error on this website. Please check your site admin email inbox for instructions.”

Please help. Thanks!

In the recovery link, the following error is shown in wordpress plugin page under yoast SEO:

This plugin failed to load properly and is paused during recovery mode.

An error of type E_ERROR was caused in line 482 of the file /var/www/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/src/integrations/admin/workouts-integration.php. Error message: Uncaught TypeError: count(): Argument #1 ($value) must be of type Countable|array, null given in /var/www/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/src/integrations/admin/workouts-integration.php:482 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/src/integrations/admin/workouts-integration.php(482): count(NULL) #1 /var/www/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/src/integrations/admin/workouts-integration.php(208): Yoast\WP\SEO\Integrations\Admin\Workouts_Integration->is_configuration_workout_finished() #2 /var/www/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/src/integrations/admin/workouts-integration.php(225): Yoast\WP\SEO\Integrations\Admin\Workouts_Integration->should_display_configuration_workout_notice() #3 /var/www/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(307): Yoast\WP\SEO\Integrations\Admin\Workouts_Integration->configuration_workout_notice('') #4 /var/www/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(331): WP_Hook->apply_filters(NULL, Array) #5 /var/www/wp-includes/plugin.php(474): WP_Hook->do_action(Array) #6 /var/www/wp-admin/admin-header.php(303): do_action('admin_notices') #7 /var/www/wp-admin/index.php(137): require_once('/var/www/wp-adm...') #8 {main} thrown

Hi @byebye123

Please revert to an earlier backup of the site before the changes you’ve made in the Yoast SEO settings.

We’re not sure if this issue is being caused by the change in the settings, but we recommend testing it out again (exporting the Yoast SEO settings, removing the extra ‘person’ or ‘company’ data, and importing those settings) on a staging site.

Hi, thanks for the reply. May you please advise exactly what the final coding should be? I simply copy and paste in the import setting then as I really have no coding knowledge. Thanks.

BTW, this site is just a small one and my trial site for learning how to make website with wordpress. So, feel free to paste here the code you guys wanna me to try to fix the problem. Thanks.

Hi,

Could you provide us with the URL that is getting flagged by Google Search Console as having a missing logo URL? Is it one of the author archives?

Those should have been the correct fields to remove to export and import again into the settings for the workaround. As for the critical error, it looks to be related to the SEO workouts, but we’d need to investigate your site further to be sure.

Thanks for replying.

All the pages under mycoffeewiki.com have the problems.

Kindly advise. Thanks.

Hi,

We tested your homepage and this page (/category/coffee-machine-review/) in Google’s Rich Results Tool and there weren’t any errors related to the missing logo URL. It looks to be isolated to the author archive page. As mentioned, those should have been the correct settings to remove and import again to solve the problem, but we cannot investigate this further without taking a closer look at your setup. You may want to consider Yoast SEO Premium.