Firetap Knowledge Panel Schema

Description

Knowledge Panel Schema Pro is an all-in-one structured data plugin designed for SEO professionals and agencies.

It generates clean, Google-compliant JSON-LD for:

• Organization and LocalBusiness entities
• Multi-location businesses
• Opening hours and special/holiday hours
• FAQs (with page-level targeting to avoid duplicate markup)
• Products (with image fallbacks and correct Offer markup)
• Training Courses (using proper Course schema, not misused Product schema)
• Optional Google Reviews integration via the Google Places API

The plugin is built to follow Google’s structured data guidelines closely, with a focus on accuracy, flexibility, and avoiding common schema implementation issues.

Developed and maintained by Rakshak Mathur (FireTap Ltd), a UK-based digital marketing agency.

Features

• Business type selector (LegalService, ProfessionalService, Store, etc.)
• Single primary address + multi-location support
• FAQ schema with URL targeting (prevents duplicate FAQ errors)
• Product schema with price, availability & image fallback
• Course schema for training & education services
• Page-level URL targeting for FAQs, Products & Courses
• Google Rich Results compatible output
• No shortcode or frontend rendering — schema only

External services

This plugin can optionally connect to the Google Places API (Google Maps Platform) to fetch public review/rating data for your configured Place ID.

• What is sent: Your configured Place ID and API key are used to request place details from Google.
• When: Only when the Google Reviews option is enabled and the schema is generated on the front-end.
• Why: To output aggregateRating and review markup in the JSON-LD.

Service provider: Google (Google Maps Platform)
Terms: https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms
Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

License

This plugin is licensed under the GPL v2 or later.

Technical Details

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