How to create a blog schema in Bricks Builder

Bricks builder has a dynamic data feature which can then be customised into different schemas.

To do this we need to create a custom function to get some variables that are not available by default.

These variables are:

• Modified date in format Year-month-day
• Created date in the format  Year-month-day
• Category Names without anchor links
• Featured image url
• Author URL

 

In your bricks child theme, add the following code in your function.php file

• Append the code at the bottom of the existing code.

function gdv_schema($gdvs)
{
	
	if ($gdvs == "modified-date") {
    return get_the_modified_date('Y-m-d', $post->ID);
	}
	
	if ($gdvs == "created-date") {
    return get_the_date('Y-m-d', $post->ID);
	}
	
	if ($gdvs == "category-names") {
    
	$category_detail=get_the_category($post->ID);//$post->ID
	//return count($category_detail);	
	$li = '';
	$i = 1;	
		foreach($category_detail as $cd){
			
			
			if (count($category_detail) ==  $i) 
			{
			  $li .= $cd->cat_name;
			}else{
				$li .= $cd->cat_name .", ";
			}

			
			$i++;
		}
	return $li;			
		
		
	}
	
	if ($gdvs == "featured-image") {
    return get_the_post_thumbnail_url( $post->ID, 'medium' );
		
	}	

	if ($gdvs == "author-url") {
		
	$author_id  = get_post_field( 'post_author', $post->ID );
    return get_author_posts_url( $author_id ) ;
		
	}
	
}

Add the following code in your post templates so it appears on all your posts.

• Create a Basic Text block and paste the code in there
• NOTE: The code will not execute if you put it Page Settings > Custom Code (at least in the templates)

As you can see you can create dynamic schemas to load on your WordPress website.

A great resource for the schema structure is Merkle

Google has an online Schema Tester.

1. Enter the url of the page you want to test and click Test URL