Missing field “item” Error

@jameseze The alternative is an option to switch off breadcrumbs on the home page and maybe the first page of archives.

@billbennett I tried that previously, but Google rejected it. Probably it wasn’t properly done. If you don’t mind explaining how you did yours?

@jameseze – I haven’t either. Until this is resolved I’d disabled the NavXT plugin and reverted to Yoast. I’m not sure how serious the errors are, but this approach does get rid of them.

@hellowords; From what I can tell, the breadcrumb trail on your site is not being generated by Breadcrumb NavXT (I’m seeing things in it that are not what Breadcrumb NavXT would generate by default). On the pages you get an error, you have schema.org markup for the breadcrumb representing the current page, but a URL is not present (e.g. it is not linked).

@jameseze: I just tested the code snippet I posted for the unlinked home template, and it does not cause any errors in the Google Structured Data Testing Tool (I’m using it on my site now).

Currently, on your linked page, it appears your open graph metadata is causing errors in the BreadcrumbList. But, that’s just a bug in the Google Structured Data Testing Tool (if you remove a space and re-add it so that you can manually-re-run the loaded data it will pass without error). This is a long standing issue with the tool and one of the reason’s I don’t have much faith in Google. One thing I did notice on your site is you have JSON-LD BreadcrumbList and BreadcrumbList markup in the displayed breadcrumb trail. I would only use one or the other (the displayed breadcrumb trail without BreadcrumbList markup if you want to keep the JSON-LD BreadcrumbList should not be a problem).

• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by John Havlik.