Linkedin No publication date found

[yogeshbeniwal]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Linkedin post inspector is throwing an error for Publish date: No publication date found

Describe the solution you'd like

Similar to adding meta author, add relevant details to page to resolve this error

Why do you think this feature is something we should consider for the Yoast SEO plugins?

To keep all schema related information at one place

Additional context

[mmikhan]

We have been trying to add support for this but have no luck due to LinkedIn's lack of documentation. Once we find more information about this, we'll add it in the plugin.

[worldsdream]

I wanted to create a new issue regarding this but saw that @yogeshbeniwal beat me to it.

[swing-nn]

It seems LinkedIn wants a time tag that is missing. Having read several web posts and checked my page settings, I believe this could be solved by adding element
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_time.asp

[mmikhan]

Not really, I just tested it but no luck 🥱

[noellesteegs]

I am also experiencing this issue with the latest WP and Yoast versions.

[zhfahan77]

I am also experiencing this issue with the latest version Version 20.4

[cnxsoft]

I have the same issue and contacted LinkedIn support.

Here's their answer:

Member can change the date accordingly :

<meta name="publish_date" property="og:publish_date" content="2019-10-21T00:00:00-0600">

or by time element :
<time datetime="2021-05-23">May 2021</time>

[verybigelephants]

I have the same issue and contacted LinkedIn support.

Here's their answer:

Member can change the date accordingly :

<meta name="publish_date" property="og:publish_date" content="2019-10-21T00:00:00-0600">

or by time element : <time datetime="2021-05-23">May 2021</time>

doesn't work on my end

[umarbutler]

Same issue here.

[aourednik]

Same here

[josevarghese]

I checked LinkedIn Help and noticed there still need details from LinkedIn on how to add the Publish date. If anyone notices any official guidelines from LinkedIn about this, share them with us so we can take a closer look.

Moreover, even though the LinkedIn inspector shows a message about a missing publish date, the sharing on LinkedIn works fine.

[MarvinVrdoljak]

<meta property="article:published_time" content="2019-10-21T00:00:00-0600" /> is fixing the problem. og:publish_date is not working for some reason.

[josevarghese]

Hi @MarvinVrdoljak

The meta tag <meta property="article:published_time" content=" is already outputted by the Yoast SEO plugin within the posts.