Hello – does Newspaper support Google AMP? Using the Automattic Jetpack plugin, my current theme (Metro mag) issues a lot of errors for incorrectly nested tags, prohibited attributes and invalid attribute values.
My web host says the theme is the issue. Would using Newspaper overcome these errors?
See my tutorial thread on AMP.
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-getting-started-with-accelerated-mobile-pages-amp/
Theme supports AMP via the plugin made by the same people who make WordPress.
Using YOAST SEO, AMP plugin, and Yoast AMP Glue, our sites are working very very well with AMP.
Hi Chris
I got the AMP working but picture galleries don’t show – is that a next step on AMP functionality or can it work now?
Pat
Read the docs on the AMP plugin as good first step.
AMP only loads content in the actual content box. Anything else “outside” the post, you have to add by editing the AMP plugin template. This solution makes it easier for people with different needs, templates, custom post types, etc., to enable what they want — which varies from site to site.
AMP is not required, but will get some bump in mobile search with the little AMP lightning bolt next to SERPS listings and also appear in the news carousel, where non-AMP versions will not.
YOAST SEO and Glue addon are useful for dropping in additional things to align the AMP version with the main version of post, default image, etc.
It’s all still a work in progress obviously. First step is actually having AMP pages so Google can see you’re moving to AMP, then they will “see” that and add AMP spidering to your Search Console for review.
Or, to clarify – some things which hook into the post content, such as some author box plugins, or related post plugins, which hook onto end of the content block *will* show up in AMP automatically.
Be careful of paragraph alignment tags which WP stupidly still uses for old browsers and should have been changed to alignment classes at least 2 years ago. SO, centered paragraph tags and such will have to be search/replaced. Luckily images use an alignment tag properly when placed via the post insert media setting.
Very old non https YouTube/Vimeo links will need updating from http to https…
etc.
Thanks for your time Chris S
I read it all! Easy!?
Well in the end I went for Yoast Glue – WP Auttomatic AMP AND PageFrog – saw the combo recommended (then saw you warn about PF today) but it is all working well – logo/images/previews so will see if they come through ok
Pat
Many thanks! Will experiment this week…
