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Schema & Structured Data for WP

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Velocity3.8

Structured data and schema markup plugin for WordPress and AMP

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After a year of validation fixes, Schema Pro adds four new schema types at once.

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◆Current state
Schema Pro spent 2026 in maintenance: Organization URL and logo validation, FAQ markup surviving regeneration, Local Business handling incomplete location data, star ratings displaying as entered, WordPress 7.0 compatibility. Version 2.12.0 breaks that pattern by adding four new schema types — datasets, author profiles, forum threads, and Q&A pages — alongside the usual rating fix and admin loading cleanup. Changelog bodies are teasers with the itemized lists behind the link, so scope beyond the named types is not readable from the feed.
◆Where it's heading
The maintenance work was about keeping existing markup valid against Google's expectations; this release is about covering document kinds the plugin previously could not describe at all. Dataset, ProfilePage, DiscussionForumPosting and QAPage are the types Google has been surfacing rich results for on community and research content, which suggests the roadmap is now following where rich-result eligibility moved rather than only defending what already validated. Cadence stays roughly monthly either way.
◆Prediction
If coverage rather than validation is now the priority, expect further type additions tracking Google's rich-result documentation. The teaser-style changelog means the next release's real scope will again not be readable without following the link.

◆Recent moves

  1. 14d ago

    Four new schema types: datasets, author profiles, forum threads, Q&A

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    The first capability expansion in this window, and it lands against a trajectory of pure validation maintenance. Four new schema types mean four categories of page that Schema Pro could not previously make eligible for rich results at all.

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  2. 1mo ago

    Schema meta box honors page-level edits; star-rating display fix

    Page-level schema edits now take precedence as expected and star ratings display as entered. Corrective work on the editing surface rather than the markup it generates.

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  3. 3mo ago

    Organization schema fixes: URLs, duplicates, undersized logos

    Half-formed URLs, duplicate entries and undersized logos were keeping Organization schema from validating cleanly. Typical of the validation-repair thread that ran through the year.

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  4. 4mo ago

    FAQ and custom-markup schema fixes; quieter PHP notices

    Five fixes around FAQ schemas and custom markup, including FAQs vanishing after a schema regeneration. Cleanup, but the regeneration bug was the kind users notice immediately.

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  5. 4mo ago

    WordPress 7.0 compatibility and Local Business schema fix

    Compatibility with WordPress 7.0, refreshed internal libraries, and a Local Business quirk on incomplete location data. Keeping pace with the platform rather than the schema spec.

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  6. 5mo ago

    Version 2.11.0

    The changelog body is section headers with no items, so nothing about this release is readable from the feed. Direction cannot be judged from what was published here.

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