Structured Data: Global Settings & Coverage
Use Indexing & Sitemaps → Structured Data as the premium command center for Auto/Manual JSON-LD, sitewide backfills, Organization + WebSite context from Website & Business, Article-style defaults, and built-in validation. Deep link: admin.php?page=seo-link-genius_indexing&tab=structured-data.
Before you start
Open WP Admin → SEO Rank Genius → Indexing & Sitemaps, then choose Structured Data under the AI & LLM group. You need Administrator-level access (typically manage_options) unless your role plugin maps a custom capability.
- Complete Website & Business before expecting consistent
@idwiring for Organization → WebSite → WebPage in live output. - Staging first for bulk manual jobs; progress bars chunk work in batches.
- Use the FAQ notice in-tab: FAQ rich eligibility changed in Search—FAQPage may still validate and help elsewhere.
Adjacent: Website & Business · AI & LLM Indexing
Command center loads here
AUTO / MANUAL switch · stats strip · grids · table
Indexing tabDeep link preserves the Structured Data rail inside the Indexing chrome; pair with Website & Business for publisher graph completeness.
Structured Data screen
The screen stacks five functional bands: introductory card with AUTO/MANUAL pills, KPI stats (total content, coverage, missing, manual locked, errors), the active Auto or Manual panel, the paginated Posts & Pages grid, then Flow Audit for parity checks. AJAX keeps counts and rows fresh after saves or jobs finish.
Orient
Read the KPI row first—it mirrors what the crawler and schema persistence layer last committed.
Pick a lane
Use AUTO for policy-driven rollout; flip to MANUAL when editors need deterministic, locked payloads.
Structured Data
Premium schema command center · strict Auto/Manual controls
AUTO / MANUAL mode chips mirror the PHP switcher; KPI tiles match the stats grid wired to Schema Manager aggregates.
Global toggles
Enable Auto Mode gates automatic JSON-LD for both existing backlog and newly published URLs once you choose Auto schema types and save. Save Auto Settings persists checkbox selections plus the paired Manual enable flag server-side (slg_schema_save_mode_settings). Run Auto Backfill Now processes in batches until completion, respecting manual-locked rows.
In Manual mode: Enable Manual Mode unlocks inline row actions (generate, delete per item) and powers Save Manual Settings separately. Turning Manual on without content selection simply arms the tooling—selection still happens in the table.
Heads up
Google deprecated FAQ expanded rich results in May 2026—FAQPage remains valid markup for validators & LLM ingest.
Backfilling 372 / 600 · Locked skipped 24
Informational FAQ notice sits above Auto controls; gradient progress echoes the AJAX backfill ticker from the bundled script.
Organization, WebSite, Article defaults
Auto/Manual type cards enumerate every Neural-supported schema keyed by taxonomy group (Articles, FAQs, commerce, etc.). Selecting Article, BlogPosting, or NewsArticle here aligns with Neural generation policies for editorial URLs; WooCommerce catalogs surface Product-oriented entries when Woo is active.
Organization and WebSite (including Sitelinks SearchBox wiring where applicable) are emitted when Website & Business validates—Neural injects those graph nodes ahead of WebPage stitching and skips duplicate publisher objects if a locked post tries to reinvent them.
Publisher graph
Configured in Website & Business
| Organization | emit |
| WebSite | emit |
| WebPage | auto stitch |
Per-URL overrides
Metabox › Schema tab for edge cases.
Open post editor ›Treat the chip rail as policy; publisher identity remains centralized under Website & Business unless you carve exceptions in editor metabox workflows.
Validation & preview
Row actions expose View (schema JSON modal), Debug, Edit, Live. The modal includes Copy JSON, Copy as <script>, plus outbound tester links populated with the active URL (Rich Results Test pattern for Google and Schema.org validator URLs).
Bulk tooling: Validate Selected summarizes pass/warning/error scoring; Validate Sitewide walks stored payloads; Audit Selected Output (Flow Audit section) validates with include_output so you catch HTML drift vs stored JSON-LD.
Publishing checklist #8841
Close{"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[ /* Article + breadcrumb refs */ ]}Mirrors footer actions wired in tab-structured-data.php; validation summaries land in the same modal shell when triggered from Manual bulk controls.
Troubleshooting
Schema issues usually cluster around capability gaps, stalled cron-style batches, CDN HTML drift, or conflicting SEO plugins injecting parallel JSON-LD.
| ☑ | Content | Schemas | Status | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ☑ | Services hub | Article | generated | 👁 🎨 ✎ |
| ☐ | Woo bundle | — | missing | 👁 ⚙ |
Filter rail (status/type/search) narrows paging; banners echo inline notices surfaced by the AJAX layer.