Hello, How to Configure FEATURED IMAGE from posts as the HERO image for Google News ?
Google News Forum:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/news/of8YtscDRwo;context-place=topicsearchin/news/primaryImage
Open graph image is typical method, most often based on featured image.
Sorry, I dont know what i need to do
Using an SEO plugin like Yoast SEO or “All in One SEO Pack” or a “Open Graph” plugin will fix all these for you. Site like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc. all rely on proper META DATA added to head of the document. Simplest way is with a plugin that takes something like the featured image for the post, and makes that the ‘image’ element you need. If none of that makes sense, install the Yoast SEO plugin which can manage this stuff for you 🙂
Sim, Thanks for your help but. I dont want to setup Featured image, Feature image is Ok. I Have Yoast Seo Premium.
I Want to fix the HERO Image for google news Producer.
Do you know how can I submit a ticket ?
Hello,
Sorry but there is no ticketing system. This forum is the support platform. We did not intervene as Chris’ device was good. There is no extra setting in the theme for any hero image implementation besides the image grabbed by google. This will be the featured image. There is no spot to add a specific image of your choice apart from that.
If you use feeds, as mentioned i nthe google support page, then that is an entirely different story. The feeds are not handled by the theme and the images issue is a known RSS issue: https://woorkup.com/show-featured-image-wordpress-rss-feed/
Thank you!
Hi, this may be useful … I’ve actually started trying this with Google News when there are two images, one if featured and shows in meta as main image and og image, and pinterest image, but might not be seen as main image for Google News on some odd occassion, such as your use case — in looking at the Google forum, I found this:
By default Producer chooses the largest image as hero image. Here is how to explicitly designate the primary images in feeds: In <item>s or <entry>s in the feed, you should add the class name class=”type:primaryImage” to the tag for the desired primary image.
These code snippets work:
<img src="www.publisher.com/image.png" />
<figure> <img src="www.publisher.com/image.png" class="type:primaryImage" /> ... </figure>
<div> <img src="www.publisher.com/image.png" class="type:primaryImage" /> ... </div>These do not work:
<img src="www.publisher.com/image.png" />
<figure class="type:primaryImage"> <img src="www.publisher.com/image.png" /> ... </figure>
<div class="type:primaryImage"> <img src="www.publisher.com/image.png" /> ... </div>I am actually trying this with a story tomorrow am. to see what happens, adding this to the main image I have posted into a story, along with supplemental image, adding this to the image class in the post body:
class="type:primaryImage"
If you need something special, one option is to setup a custom feed for Google News, and use something like Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), and then in your custom feed, have the fields inserted however you wish. We do this for sub-headlines so that they carry over into RSS feeds, when the sub-headline field is outside the post body.
If that is above your head, you might need to hire a developer, or look for a plugin.
However, be aware Google *will* use the largest image in your post as the hero image regardless of anything you add or don’t add; so only reason to worry about it is when you might have two large images, and Google News not grabbing the featured image (e.g., via Yoast SEO ‘News’ add on, etc.).
(Our sites have been in Google News since the 2005 beta, btw.)
Hey, Simchris.
Thank You for your Help.
I Will try 😀
