T4BS5 Blank - schema.org/SiteNavigationElement issues

ccsupport

We are using Joomla 4.2.8 together with T4 BS5 Blank template 1.1.7 and T4 plugin 2.2.6.

There are issues with schema.org/SiteNavigationElement in our menu because we use megamenu with separators.

T4 plugin generates e.g.

name HELP & CONTACT Support CentreFAQsContact Us [this is what happens to separator]
name Support Centre
name FAQs
name Contact Us

So each separator gets it's "name" generated based on menu item name followed by names of child items. This is wrong and shouldn't be happening. How do we correct this? If there are no easy solutions, how do we disable generation of "SiteNavigationElement" schema?

Thanks.

saguaros

How can I replicate this issue?

Did you experience the same with our demo site? https://t4-framework.demo.joomlart.com/

ccsupport

Yeah, your demo is broken too but different. Check it on:

https://validator.schema.org/#url=https%3A%2F%2Ft4-framework.demo.joomlart.com%2F

In our case we use separators so we get:

name HELP & CONTACT Support CentreFAQsContact Us [this is what happens to separator, all child items are listed]
name Support Centre [child item]
name FAQs [child item]
name Contact Us [child item]

And we should get at least:

name HELP & CONTACT
name Support Centre
name FAQs
name Contact Us

But even then this is not a proper Schema "SiteNavigationElement" as for each, non-separator, menu item you should list URL next to name to. To do that I think you would need to go with a list. Something more like the example at https://www.rankya.com/structured-data/structured-data-examples/

We have edited "t4-plugin\themes\base\html\mod_menu\mega.php" and removed your implementation of Schema "SiteNavigationElement" as it might cause more harm than good.

saguaros

ccsupport https://validator.schema.org/#url=https%3A%2F%2Ft4-framework.demo.joomlart.com%2F

I checked this link but see no error / warning there 🙂

ccsupport

Well....There are no errors / warnings but that tool checks only the markup, not the content of the markup...

When you actually see the content, it doesn't make sense. Please read my previous post again for details.

saguaros

ccsupport Could you make a test by switching template on your site to default Joomla template - Cassiopeia and see how it goes?

ccsupport

The schema with bad content is injected by code in:

t4-plugin\themes\base\html\mod_menu\mega.php

saguaros

ccsupport Could you test your site with Cassiopeia template?

I will forward to our T4 team also.