Hi there,
I’m using Newspaper and Newsmag on a few sites, and I’ve just tried to set up Facebook Instant Articles for one of my sites running Newsmag. Unfortunately, the media elements are not able to be shown. Both the featured image and any featured video aren’t in the code (which is based on the RSS feed of the site). It seems like it’s an issue with the theme itself.
Additional details from the Facebook reviewer:
Please make sure to include all of the embeds and media found in the web article. For more information please see the following links:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instant-articles/reference/embeds
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instant-articles/reference/image
Do you actually have open graph tags added to your site?
You need to use a plugin like Yoast SEO or similar to actually add the needed OG tags for FB to see them!
Yes, I’m using Yoast SEO 🙂
Note that like most themes with a ‘featured image’ turned on, this image lives “outside” the post meta since not placed into the actual post meta.
On our news portals, we turn off inserting featured image in post, and then actually place the image into the post “inline” so that it is part of the actual post meta; this is only way to have media appear in things like AMP, FB Instant Articles, etc. — unless you have custom feed setup.
So, best to turn off the post option for featured images, and then simply “place” the image into the post (we do it after first paragraph).
Try it 🙂
It works for me perfect. Conflict between the Instant-articles plugin and Yoast?
Dunno. Good to check the support forum for the IA plugin to see what other people are running into.
Thanks for the reply, Chris!
I may give that a go, but I feel like that isn’t using the theme to its fullest potential. I actually like using the different featured image setups, especially for a featured video :/
christixnnl: Instant Articles is working for you with the Newsmag theme when you’re using featured images/videos, and you’re not also using Yoast?
Yoast has nothing to do with instant articles other than embedding open graph data and allowing you to set custom snippet and image for Facebook.
Still no update since a year regarding this issue?
To clarify, I’m talking about the Facebook Instant Articles embed of media from youtube,instagram,facebook,twitter, etc.
Oembeds with iframes dont normally appear in rss feeds. Theme does not control rss feeds. You can make your own custom feed and include whatever you want using custom fields or rewrite options.
The issue is not RSS feeds, as the embeds are appearing fine on desktop/mobile. It’s when converting to facebook instant articles that there is a problem, even when using the correct embed tag/codes, for ex:
<figure class=”op-interactive”>
<iframe>
<!– Include Twitter embed code here.
</iframe>
</figure>
