Google Search Console

Hi @andrewleonard,

We see that the SEO title for the /new-research/ page is “- The British Pteridological Society”, which is the same as the SEO title for the /new-research/new-research-archive/ page.

Are these the page titles you expected to see in the breadcrumbs?

Do these titles contain any extra spaces or any special characters?

I have a plugin that creates a list of child pages in the widget area (right)
f you go to this page https://ebps.org.uk/education/ you can see the children of this page
The two of interest are:
#10170 (no title)
#10316 (no title)
#10170 is https://ebps.org.uk/education/new-research/
#10316 is https://ebps.org.uk/education/new-research/new-research-archive/
Neither of these pages have a title at all, no extra spaces or special chartacters
The breadcrumbs look and behave as I would expect
The problem is that Google Search Console reports errors for this page:
https://ebps.org.uk/education/new-research/new-research-archive/
because your schema cannot cope with this situation
The problem is NOT with the SEO title
If it helps, you can see a screen dump of the relevant Google Search Cosole page here:
https://ebps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Breadcrumbs.jpg

Thanks for sharing the relevant information with us. We have tested the relevant page on our end by using the Google Structured Data Testing Tool and were able to reproduce the issue.

We see the breadcrumb on the relevant page is only showing Home ? Education rather than showing the Home ? Education ? New Research ? New Research Archive. So, can you please confirm whether the following pages have any title on them?

• https://ebps.org.uk/education/
• https://ebps.org.uk/education/new-research/

If yes, can you please confirm how did you create the parent and child relationship between those three pages? Did you use the WordPress built-in parent and child relationship feature during creating those pages or did you use any 3rd party plugin to create the relevant parent/child relationship between them?

We look forward to hearing from you.

Neither of the above pages have a “WordPress Title”
Instead they have an image which acts as a title in the content area
Please Note that Google Search Console also reports a similar error on this page
https://ebps.org.uk/events/category/meetings/page/4/?tribe-bar-date=2016-08-20
This is a page created by the plugin called The Events Calendar Version 5.2.1 By Modern Tribe, Inc.

Hi,

Could you provide more information on the plugin you are using to create the child pages #10170 (no title) & #10316 (no title) for the parent page https://ebps.org.uk/education/?

I created these pages using native WordPress no plugins involved
https://ebps.org.uk/education/new-research/ has “Education” in Page Attributes>Parent field
https://ebps.org.uk/education/new-research/new-research-archive/ has “#10170 (no title)” in Page Attributes>Parent field
Both these fields wer picked from the drop down menu

Hi @andrewleonard,

Thanks for the information. In our tests, we can confirm that leaving a parent page title blank will cause an error in the breadcrumbs and schema data.

To work around this limitation, Yoast SEO gives you the option to set a Breadcrumb title under the “Advanced” section in the Yoast SEO metabox. If you set a Breadcrumb title for the parent page and then update the page, does this update the breadcrumb path and remove the errors in the schema data?

As an alternative, you can directly customize the breadcrumb path for any page using custom code and the wpseo_breadcrumb_links filter. We have examples here: Code examples.

In the Advanced field I put “New Research” in https://ebps.org.uk/education/new-research/
and “Archive” into https://ebps.org.uk/education/new-research/new-research-archive/
IO tried to “Validate Fix” in Google Search Console but I got the message:
Cannot continue validation process
Affected pages were found. Fix the issue and run validation again
N/A
https://ebps.org.uk/events/category/meetings/page/4/?tribe-bar-date=2016-08-20
So have I fixed https://ebps.org.uk/education/new-research/new-research-archive/ but Google Search Console wants me to fix both pages or have I not fixed anything?
I also added this code to the functions.php file in my child theme:
add_filter( ‘wpseo_breadcrumb_links’, ‘yoast_seo_breadcrumb_append_link’ );

function yoast_seo_breadcrumb_append_link( $links ) {
global $post;

if ( is_page ( 10316 ) ) {
$breadcrumb[] = array(
‘url’ => site_url( ‘/new-research-archive/’ ),
‘text’ => ‘New Research Archive’,
);

array_splice( $links, 1, -2, $breadcrumb );
}

return $links;
}

Hi,

We can see you fixed the issues for https://ebps.org.uk/education/new-research/new-research-archive/ as Google returns no errors for it here.

With https://ebps.org.uk/events/category/meetings/page/4/?tribe-bar-date=2016-08-20 Google returns errors for the breadcrumb here.

Indeed, we can see in the source code that the last breadcrumb item (which should show as Page 4) is lacking. Instead the double quotes which should show that are missing. See image: https://ibb.co/y6m3tyf. So Google is tossing out errors.

We were able to reproduce this issue. We have created an issue report with our developers. While we are unable to say when our developers will have a fix, we can only say that it has been reported. No known workarounds are available.

In the meantime, we suggest signing up for our newsletter as that is where we will announce product changes and updates. You may sign-up for it here https://yoast.com/ by scrolling towards the bottom to complete the sign-up field.

Thank you