Article schema

Properties of the Article schema.

Properties #

type #

article type

@type

The type of the article.
Select from: Article, Advertiser Content Article, Blogposting, News Article, Report, Satirical Article, Scholarly Article, Social Media Posting, Tech Article.

TechArticle #

dependencies

dependencies

Prerequisites needed to fulfill steps in article.

proficiency level

proficiencyLevel

Proficiency needed for this content; expected values: ‘Beginner’, ‘Expert’.

info #

headline

recommended

headline

Headline of the article.

description

description

A description for the article.

categories

articleSection

The categories the article belongs to.
It defaults to the wordpress categories assigned to the article.

keywords

keywords

Keywords or tags used to describe the article.
It defaults to the wordpress tags assigned to this article.

audience #

audience

audience

The target audience for the article.

content #

languages

inLanguage

The language of the article.

main entities

mainEntity

Τhe primary entitites described in the article.
You can select from a dropdown of available business, organizations, persons and items, or you can right click on the field and enter a text value or a WikiData reference.

about

about

The subject matter of the article.
You can select from a dropdown of available business, organizations, persons and items, or you can right click on the field and enter a text value or a WikiData reference.

images

recommended

image

The images used in the article.
You can select DYNAMIC to have this field populated automatically from the article’s content, or EDIT to manually edit the field with your own info.

include article body

articleBody

Include the full text of the article in the schema.

word count

wordCount

The number of words in the text of the article.
Defaults to the {word_count } dynamic value which calculates the number of the article’s words automatically.

extra #

authors

recommended

author

The authors of this article.
Defaults to the {post_author} dynamic value that corresponds to the article’s author in WordPress.

publisher

publisher

The publisher of this article.

copyright

copyrightHolder

The party holding the legal copyright to the website.
Defaults to the default Business schema. You can select from a dropdown of available business, organizations and persons, or you can right click on the field and enter a text value or a WikiData reference.

year

copyrightYear

The year during which the claimed copyright for the website was first asserted.
Defaults to the current year.

published

recommended

datePublished

Date of first publication.

modified

recommended

dateModified

The date on which the article was most recently modified.

post url

url

The url of the article.

Article Schema Example #

{
    "@type": [
        "Article"
    ],
    "@id": "https://deepschema.org/#post-20",
    "headline": "My Post",
    "articleSection": "World News",
    "keywords" : "Europe, storm",
    "description": "Lorem ipsum dolor.......",
    "articleBody": "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur............",
    "wordCount": 329,
    "inLanguage": [
        {
            "@type": "Language",
            "name": "en"
        }
    ],
    "mainEntity": [
        {
            "@type": "Place",
            "name": "Europe",
            "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q46"
        }
    ],
    "about": [
        {
            "@type": "Thing",
            "name": "weather",
            "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11663",
        }
    ],
    "image": [
        {
            "@type": "ImageObject",
            "name": "Europe map",
            "caption": "Satellite map of Europe",
            "url": "https://deepschema.org/uploads/img-01.jpg",
            "contentUrl": "https://deepschema.org/uploads/img-01.jpg",
            "thumbnail": "https://deepschema.org/uploads/img-01-200x200.jpg",
            "width": 1664,
            "height": 960
        }
    ],
    "audience": [
        {
            "@id": "https://deepschema.org/#audi-1",
            "@type": "PeopleAudience",
            "name": "General Audience",
            "audienceType": "Audience A",
            "geographicArea": [ 'Italy', 'Greece', 'Spain' ],
            "suggestedGender": "unisex",
            "suggestedAge": {
                "minValue": "30",
                "maxValue": "70",
                "unitCode": "ANN"
            },
        }
    ],
    "author": [
        {
            "@id": "https://deepschema.org/#pers-wp-1",
            "@context": "http://schema.org",
            "@type": "Person",
            "name": "Stelios Ignatiadis",
            "email": [ "sic@actus.works" ],
            "url": "https://actus.works",
            "worksFor": [
                { "@id": "https://deepschema.org/#busi-1" }
            ],
            "image": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/123"
        }
    ],
    "publisher": [
        { "@id": "https://deepschema.org/#busi-1" }
    ],
    "copyrightHolder": { "@id": "https://deepschema.org/#busi-1" },
    "copyrightYear": "2023",
    "url": "https://deepschema.org/my-post/",
    "datePublished": "2023-10-29 17:04:53",
    "dateModified": "2023-10-30 00:24:35"
}
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