The following code shows a list of links to recent posts on an experimental blog site I am playing with. The problem is that this fails Google's Structured Data Testing Tool because it is missing required items such as author
and publisher
.
But I don't want to show these for recent posts and I don't want to show them for every blog post either. What should I do? Get rid of the structured data? Put the required stuff in and hide it with CSS? Or leave as is?
<section>
<header>
<h4 class="h4-padding">Recent Posts</h4>
</header>
<ul>
<li>
<article itemprop="blogPost" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting">
<header itemprop="name headline">
<h5><a href="http://myblog.com/post/5/1/2016/a-very-interesting-thing">A very interesting thing</a></h5>
</header>
</article>
</li>
<li>
<article itemprop="blogPost" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting">
<header itemprop="name headline">
<h5><a href="http://myblog.com/post/30/7/2015/something-even-more-interesting">Something event more interesting</a></h5>
</header>
</article>
</li>
<li>
<article itemprop="blogPost" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting">
<header itemprop="name headline">
<h5><a href="http://myblog.com/something-very-dull">Something very dull</a></h5>
</header>
</article>
</li>
</ul>