Simple example showing how to tag a blog post using Microdata following some of Schema.org’s properties used to define an “Article”.

structured-microdata.php

<?php
/**
 * Simple example showing how to tag a blog post using Microdata
 * following some of Schema.org’s properties used to define an “Article”.
 *
 * @link https://imelgrat.me/json-xml/structured-data-google-recipes-jobs/
 */
?>
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Article">
    <div> 
        <span itemprop="name">Structured Data: Helping Google find recipes and jobs</span> 
        by <span itemprop="author">Ivan Melgrati</span>
    </div>
    <div itemprop="datePublished" content="2018-02-01">Published on Feb 1, 2018</div>
    <div itemprop="description">This article is about structured data</div>
</div>