Google Recipe Warning : missing field “cooktime”

  • Resolved Louno

    (@louno)


    4 years, 8 months ago

    Google is flagging some recipes with a warning “The cookTime field is recommended. Please provide a value if available.”

    Example: https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool#url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chichilicious.com%2Frecipes%2Ftiramisu%2F

    The problem is that some recipes do not require any actual “cooking” time, for example, a salad, or a no bake dessert, there is nothing to cook, just prep time. In WP Recipe Maker, there is an option to display the cook time as “0” , but it seems google is ignoring this “0” value or it seems that this “0” data is not outputted in the recipe schema?

    How can we address this?
    – Is this something that will be patched in future version of the plugin?
    – Should we enter a “cook time” instead of “prep” time for recipes that do not have cook time? The issue with this is that on the front-end, visitor would see for example a salad that has a cook time of 10 minutes, instead of prep time of 10 minutes, which is kinda weird?

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  • Plugin Author Brecht

    (@brechtvds)

    Google needs to see either prep AND cook time or if you don’t have both it needs a total time set. They will show a warning if that’s not the case and they don’t see 0 as a correct value for the metadata.

    There’s nothing we can do about that on our end so there’s nothing to patch. I recommend just making sure the total time field is filled in.

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