Yoast is including Event schema on pages without event information

Hi @supernaut510

We do have an integration with The Events Calendar where it automatically adds the ‘event’ schema type when it detects an event page and stitches it with our schema output.

Just to clarify, the page you’ve mentioned, is it a page or event created with The Events Calendar plugin but just currently doesn’t have any listed events? Or is it a standard WordPress page?

This is just a standard WordPress page.

Hello @supernaut510

First, can you please update to Yoast SEO v19.14?

Since the Yoast SEO plugin doesn’t generate the event schema, it could be that another plugin or your theme is conflicting.

Often, we see problems occur in combination with another plugin or theme. The fastest way to rule out any conflict is to deactivate all non-Yoast plugins and switch to a standard theme like Twenty Twenty.

Please test this on your development or staging site if you have one. If not, we recommend using the Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin. This plugin has a troubleshooting mode, which does not affect normal visitors to your site.

If you’re unfamiliar with checking for conflicts, we’d like to point you to a step-by-step guide that will walk you through the process: How to check for plugin conflicts

The event schema is found in a script with the class “yoast-schema-graph”, and within a section commented with “This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 – https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/” so it is definitely being added by Yoast.

The Yoast plugin is at the latest version.

Naturally, if I deactivate the Events Calendar plugin, the event schema disappears. But we need the Events Calendar plugin. So it’s not really a plugin *conflict*; it’s Yoast adding the event schema when/where it shouldn’t.

How can I prevent Yoast from adding event schema on a non-event page?

@supernaut510

As per our GitHub report, the Events Calendar Integration is now moving from Yoast SEO to the TEC plugin itself and is already implemented on their end. You can look at the?changelog of TEC plugin?to find more information about it. So, the integration will be removed from Yoast SEO very soon!

In the meantime, you may also refer to the suggested workaround on this thread from the plugin author and if needed, contact further assistance to the plugin support.

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