Schema piece - Article

Describes an Article on a WebPage. May be transformed into a more specific type (such as NewsArticle) if the required conditions are met.

Triggers

Should be output on all post types which support authorship and have an author.

Required properties

A valid Article must have the following properties.

  • @type: Article.
  • @id: The site's home URL appended by #/schema/Article/{{ID}}, where {{ID}} is a unique identifier for the article in question.
  • headline: The headline of the article (falling back to the title of the WebPage ).
  • description: A summary of the article (falling back to the page's meta description content).
  • isPartOf: A reference-by-ID to the WebPage node.
  • mainEntityOfPage: A reference-by-ID to the WebPage node.
  • datePublished: The time at which the article was originally published, in ISO 8601 format; e.g., 2015-10-31T16:10:29+00:00.
  • dateModified: The time at which the article was last modified, in ISO 8601 format; e.g., 2015-10-31T16:10:29+00:00.
  • author: A reference-by-ID to the author of the article, in addition to their name property (to better support Pinterest).
  • publisher: A reference-by-ID to the publisher of the article.

Failure scenarios

If any of the required fields are missing or invalid, the node should not be output.

Optional properties

The following should be added whenever available and valid:

  • image: An image object (or array of all images in the article content), referenced by ID.
    • Must be at least 696 pixels wide.
    • Must be of the following formats+file extensions: .jpg, .png, .gif ,or .webp.
  • video: An array of all videos in the article content, referenced by ID.
  • comment: An array of references by ID to comment pieces.
  • articleSection: An array of the names of categories which the article belongs to (e.g., ["cats","dogs","cake"]).
  • inLanguage: The language code for the article; e.g., en-GB.
  • speakable: A SpeakableSpecification object which identifies any content elements suitable for spoken results.

Conditional properties

Optional properties which should only be output when the required criteria are met.

If copyright information is available

  • copyrightYear: The year from which the article holds copyright status.
  • copyrightHolder: A reference-by-ID to the Organization or Person who holds the copyright.

If there are comments

  • commentCount: An integer value of the number of comments associated with the article.
  • comment: An array of references-by-ID to the comment pieces associated with the article.

If commenting is allowed/enabled

  • potentialAction: A CommentAction object with values:
  • name: "Comment".
  • target: The url property of the parent WebPage, appended with #comment.

Examples

Minimum criteria

{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@graph": [
{
"@type": "Article",
"@id": "https://www.example.com/#/schema/Article/abc123",
"headline": "Example article headline",
"description": "Example article description",
"isPartOf": {
"@id": "https://www.example.com/blog/example-article/"
},
"mainEntityOfPage": {
"@id": "https://www.example.com/blog/example-article/"
},
"datePublished": "2019-07-10T08:08:40+00:00",
"dateModified": "2019-07-10T08:43:03+00:00",
"author": {
"@id": "https://www.example.com/#/schema/Person/abc123"
},
"publisher": {
"@id": "https://www.example.com/#/schema/Organization/1"
},
"image": {
"@id": "https://www.example.com/#/schema/ImageObject/abc123"
}
}
]
}

Extended criteria

{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@graph": [
{
"@type": "Article",
"@id": "https://www.example.com/#/schema/Article/abc123",
"headline": "Example article headline",
"description": "Example article description",
"isPartOf": {
"@id": "https://www.example.com/blog/example-article/"
},
"mainEntityOfPage": {
"@id": "https://www.example.com/blog/example-article/"
},
"datePublished": "2019-07-10T08:08:40+00:00",
"dateModified": "2019-07-10T08:43:03+00:00",
"commentCount": 6,
"articleSection": ["cats","dogs","cake"],
"inLanguage": "en-US",
"author": {
"@id": "https://www.example.com/#/schema/Person/abc123"
},
"publisher": {
"@id": "https://www.example.com/#/schema/Organization/1"
},
"image": [
{
"@id": "https://www.example.com/#/schema/ImageObject/abc123"
},
{
"@id": "https://www.example.com/#/schema/ImageObject/def456"
}
],
"video": [
{
"@id": "https://www.example.com/#/schema/VideoObject/abc123"
},
{
"@id": "https://www.example.com/#/schema/VideoObject/def456"
}
],
"potentialAction": [
{
"@type": "CommentAction",
"name": "Comment"
"target": [ "https://www.example.com/blog/example-article/#comment" ]
}
]
}
]
}
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