Facebook Instant Articles

Hello,

Can anyone help me to add subtitle to the Facebook Instant articles?

I got following a reply from the Facebook team:
Our review team examined a sample of your articles and found some problems
Please address these issues before submitting again

Bogdan, it does not help :(. There is no place to put the SubTitle text as being of h2 type. I opened a post and inserted by SubTitle in this way:
<h2>This is my SubTitle</h2>
and Facebook ignores it.
The statement of problem is this: The theme sets the Header of a post to <h1> tag but the Subtitle is not set to a <h2>…</h2> tag. How does one accomplish this?

@Mystic

Changing tag will not help to get subtitle in the Facebook Instant Article.

Need to add some custom codes to get output for example:

function add_subtitle_before_content( $content ) {
ob_start();
td_subtitle( '<h2>', "</h2>\n" );
$subtitle = ob_get_clean();
$content = $subtitle . $content;
return $content;
}

Amit

Where does your code snippet go into? I put the code changes as suggested by Bogdan into loop-single*.php and it did not work.

Thanks in advance!

I am also working on it. I have created a custom template for Facebook instant articles.

Thanks for the quick response… Pl. keep me posted.

is it possible to use facebook instant articles with newspaper theme, i get an error “No rules defined for <p> in the context of Bold” How do i fix it?

hii amit

s it possible to use facebook instant articles with newspaper theme, i get an error “No rules defined for <p> in the context of Bold” How do i fix it?

Hello @sunilverma008
You can fix those errors by adding Custom transformer rules.

Put following rules and save changes.

{
"rules":
[
{
"class": "ParagraphRule",
"selector": "p"
},
{
"class": "BoldRule",
"selector": "b"
}
]
}

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Thanks for your understanding.

@amit @snaxzer, can u help me with instant article,

i am getting this error, https://prnt.sc/gmlbiv

images or videos are not being displayed.

also the featured image is not being displayed. website, http://karwarnews.com/chnadra-shekar/

thanks a lot in advance.

Hi @hamzahali

I have checked your feed for Facebook Instant articles, it seems fine.
Have you added any custom transformer rule?

Quick fix: http://prntscr.com/gmlpyu

@snaxzer amit bro,
i have not added any custom rules.
still images and videos not coming, can u please help me.
Please My no. is 0091-9741791445.

Hello, all –

After switching to the beautiful Newspaper theme, I began experiencing some problems with my Facebook Instant Articles.

For one, the same images are now showing up twice in each article. And an even bigger issue is my Audience Network ads are no longer being displayed. Is it possible the theme may be creating the shareable images twice?

It appears Instant Articles is becoming an increasingly prominent presence in publishing, so it makes good sense for me to be a part of it. Will there soon be a fix that will correct these issues?

I contacted the people at Facebook regarding this issue. Here is what they found: https://imgur.com/a/pqNFY

Thanks very much.

Sincerely,

Warren T.

Hello, @warrentab

Considering http://www.crossicehockey.com as your website.
I have checked your site and found two same images in the source feed. And this result in two images on the Facebook Instant Article.

Why two images in the feed?

Let me try to explain in detail,

It seems you are using style 5 templates on some article. On articles using style 5, you are using feature image which will not be shown on the single article but it is being used in og:image and this can be read by FIA.

Now, to show the image on the single article, you are adding the same image to article body. FIA reading this image as the second image in the article.

That’s the reason FIA showing the same image twice.

Thank you for your understanding.

@hamzahali

Contact me on email.

Hello, Amit –

Thank you for your reply. So what do you recommend I do to avoid this problem?

Hi, again –

I should mention I am using the default setting for my posts, as opposed to any particular style.

Thank you again.

warrentab

Can someone please explain why my featured images are showing up twice in Facebook Instant Articles?

I am still waiting for help! Thank you!

Provide the URL of an article, replicating two images in FIA

Hello, Amit:

Thanks for the reply. Here’s the url to the FBIA: http://dlvr.it/PxM2l0
(Note: Please view it on a mobile device.)

Regards,

Warren

Do not include an image in the article body. Instead, use the default template for your site.
This will solve your issue.

I am using FIA and not facing any issue. You may check my FIA on my Facebook page: Tech Explorist
Refer:

Hi, Amit –

I understand what you are saying. However, how else would I include an image in my post unless I place it in the (<<Add Media>>)?

Thank you so much for your help.

Warren

Amit,

I should also mention that my SEO plugin always reminds me to use a Featured Image.

Thank you again!

WT