Missing “image” from Google Rich Card Structured Data Markup

Hi Collin!

Simmer Pro 1.1 fixes this issue for recipes embedded via shortcode and adds the correct schema.org markup for Google Structured Data: https://simmerwp.com/blog/simmer-pro-1-1/

*Add image="itemprop"  filter for recipe-shortcode.php recipes; schema.org recipe/Google Structured Data markup

You can also edit the schema.org and Google Structured Data markup for any recipe in Simmer by creating a custom recipe.php and recipe-shortcode.php in your active theme. We are able to provide customer service with examples to complete this issue for license holders and hosting customers at https://simmerwp.com.

To test Simmer Pro 1.1, run any blog update from our demo for this plugin at https://pro.simmerwp.com through Google’s testing tool to find the correct image="itemprop" added to featured recipe image. (https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/u/0/#url=https%3A%2F%2Fpro.simmerwp.com%2Fhello-world%2F)

You can also see a test of single recipes with the correct image="itemprop" in Simmer Pro 1.1: https://laralittlefield.pub/recipes/recipe/zucchini-fritters/ (https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/u/0/#url=https%3A%2F%2Flaralittlefield.pub%2Frecipes%2Frecipe%2Fzucchini-fritters%2F)

What you are finding in the demo site is a recent development with the Twenty Seventeen theme, which Simmer is currently developing a free plugin only for license customers whose theme requires it. WordPress themes that use a large, featured image, usually responsive, and set outside the loop, require an added display of the recipe image inside the loop for Google to recognize it. Pinterest does not have this requirement for their ingredient data and shopping list, and most other implementations of schema.org do not.

For future customer service, please purchase a license or hosting at https://simmerwp.com, and contact [email protected].

Thank you!
Lara

Hi Lara,

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. For anyone else who might come across this, I solved this by changing line #33 of the plugin’s core/frontend/templates/recipe-shortcode.php to the following.

<?php the_post_thumbnail( 'thumbnail', array( 'itemprop' => 'image' ) ); ?>

Note that plugin updates could break this custom patch in the future.

Lara, continued thanks for the great plugin. I’d love to be a paying customer for the pro plugin, but the pricing does not support my use case. We just use the plugin on my wife’s hobby baking site that has 1-2 posts per month. It’s not monetized, so the $99/year price is too prohibitive. Thanks!

Hi Collin,

This change will break when this plugin creates a new release.

Our products begin at $23/month. Best of luck with your new venture!

Lara