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Google is flagging Backlight's use of Breadcrumbs as deprecated, and issues a warning (as of Jan 21, 2020).
It's possible this is a spurious warning, and will go away in a few days, but in this case I think it's correct.
Google has adopted other options for specifying Breadcrumbs.
https://developers.google.com/search/do … breadcrumb
Without looking into this closely, I suspect this is a simple enough fix. There are a number of ways to solve this. This seems like the simplest one, taken from Google's examples:
Given this breadcrumb
Books › Science Fiction › Award Winners
the HTML would be
<ol itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/BreadcrumbList">
<li itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope
itemtype="https://schema.org/ListItem">
<a itemprop="item" href="https://example.com/books">
<span itemprop="name">Books</span></a>
<meta itemprop="position" content="1" />
</li>
›
<li itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope
itemtype="https://schema.org/ListItem">
<a itemprop="item" href="https://example.com/books/sciencefiction">
<span itemprop="name">Science Fiction</span></a>
<meta itemprop="position" content="2" />
</li>
›
<li itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope
itemtype="https://schema.org/ListItem">
<span itemprop="name">Award winners</span>
<meta itemprop="position" content="3" />
</li>
</ol>--Jim
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Thanks, Jim. Probably a change we can effect in a future release.
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Hi Jim, Matthew I found this fix on Google at the bottom of the page. https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2020/ … ulary.html
I am still using publisher for the time being - I will try to manually update the template in the TTG-BE Gallery folder unless there is another way? Or a possible publisher script update/fix?
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Hi Jim, Matthew I found this fix on Google at the bottom of the page. https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2020/ … ulary.html
I am still using publisher for the time being - I will try to manually update the template in the TTG-BE Gallery folder unless there is another way? Or a possible publisher script update/fix?
Hi Andrew,
The best way to stay up-to-date with changing web standards is to use the latest version of Backlight, as we continue to update it. I recommend that rather than continuing to hack CE4 and TTG-BE, you instead spend the time upgrading your website to Backlight 2. Just my two cents.
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