plimfec

Hi @anupamkhatua,

Thanks very much for your reply.

I did update to 5.7.53, but unfortunately the security field is still displayed at the frontend. I’m running the latest version of WordPress (6.7.2) and tested this in Twenty Twenty-Five as well.

For now I manually added your removed CSS code from version 5.7.51 (see bold section in my first post) to my child theme.

This way:

[aria-hidden="true"] .es_required_field {
      position: absolute;
      top: -99999px;
      left: -99999px;
      z-index: -99;
}

This hides the extra field, but of course just for me as a workaround. Other users might still face the problem.

In case you need additional info to help solve this, please let me know.

Best regards,
Plimfec

I still haven’t got any feedback from the site owner, so I don’t have a clue a disabled WP-Cron was actually the cause. I suppose it was.

Somebody already marked this issue as resolved; seems fine to me.

Thanks for your help @patrickposner & best regards,
Plimfec

For others facing the same problem:

I was using a function in my child theme’s functions.php to alphabetize product meta ‘categories’ on single product pages and apparently that function was causing the problems. Maybe there was a flaw in the code.

After removing the function from my functions.php, Rank Math did display both main and child categories in the breadcrumbs.

Hi @rankmath,

Thanks for your reply.

Like I wrote in my last message:
The breadcrumbs you see on my website right now, come from the plugin Breadcrumb NavXT (pages, posts) and Woocommerce (product pages).

That’s why it is looking fine on your end at the moment I suppose: the current breadcrumbs are not handled by Rank Math. I had to do this to prevent too many Google penalties for my shop pages and of course for my visitors.

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According to your first clip: yes, all settings are (and were) in the right place. Like I wrote:

Activated by the switch:
– Rank Math > General settings > Breadcrumbs > Show categories

Selected ‘Categories’ here:
– Rank Math > Titles & Meta > Post Types > Posts > Primary Taxonomy > Categories`

I made the child category primary as well. But even the main category is not displayed in the Rank Math breadcrumbs (not for posts and not for products).

When there is no child category and just one main category, it’s not displayed neither.

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Yes, WordPress, template and all plugins are updated to the last versions.

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I ran the recommended plugin Site Health. Site Health Status gave me ‘no issues’. While in troubleshooting mode I got nothing than ‘site failures’. I therefore could not use the plugin. I couldn’t even switch on the theme twentytwentyone..

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Last days I validated again in Google Search Console (with Rank Math plugin running but with the Rank Math breadcrumbs switched off), and today I received the message that the validation had (partly) failed.

Please look at the errors I posted before: https://i.imgur.com/Z7n0VGX.png

The pages were crawled by Google while the Rank Math breadcrumbs were switched off. That’s very weird in my opinion. But apparently the Rank Math schema still is picked up by Google?

All errors are about empty fields for the category (main and child) in the Rank Math section inside the code.

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Google Search Console errors:

Failed validation (today):
– Either ‘name’ or ‘item.name’ should be specified
– Invalid object type for field ‘item’
– Incorrect value type ‘@id’

Still in validation today:
– data-vocabulary.org schema deprecated
– Missing field ‘itemListElement’

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I hope you can find out why Google is not detecting (main and child) categories in the Rank Math code / schema.

Thanks for your time again.

Somebody marked this thread as resolved, but it is not. There are several questions unanswered and my problem still exists.