It’s not just you. If you’ve received this error the odds are pretty good this component of your schema is correct and your validator is mistaken.
![Schema.org Person type details Schema.org Person type](data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mNkYAAAAAYAAjCB0C8AAAAASUVORK5CYII=)
Specifically, in this case, the
Google Structured Data Tester. After testing this blog, I was puzzled as to why Google was throwing an
Error
on this property. I checked the documentation on
schema.organd as expected,
Person
is indeeda valid type for the
Publisherproperty.
Specifically, “Values expected to be one of these types: Organization andPerson“. Perhaps I was missing context? Nope.
Google’s validator just needs to be updated to be in parity with the official Schema.org specs.
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