Facebook Instant articles
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Does anyone know how to use Facebook’s instant articles on a wordpress.com hosted, AMP enabled WordPress website?
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Hi there
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instant-articles/quickstart is the how-to documentation for the Facebook part.It mentions using a plugin but you do not have that option while hosted here at WordPress.com
It talks about feeding instant articles using RSS. Your blog does produce an RSS feed as discussed here:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/feeds/Now all you have to do is put the two together!
Let us know how you make out – i would love to see you do this successfully!
dave -
I already did put the blog’s RSS feed on our Facebook Page’s Instant Articles Configuration, and It doesn’t load up the articles already posted in the blog.
I think Facebook needs the meta tag in the sites html <head> for it to successfully grab AMP feeds, which I think wordpress.com doesn’t support.
Though I haven’t tried yet if it needs articles posted after the initial Instant Article setup.
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Hi
I suspect that RSS feeds do not reflect posts prior to the feed’s creation. Even though you cannot install plugins on WordPress.com sites i found this article
http://feedwordpress.radgeek.com/wiki/how-do-i-go-back-to-get-older-articles-or-all-the-articles-from-a-sites-archives/It says
Syndication feeds are designed to notify subscribing clients about new content as it is published, or new events as they happen. They typically do not provide a comprehensive view of all the posts in a site’s archives (it would, in any case, be extremely wasteful, in terms of bandwidth and other resource consumption, for a post to deliver its entire content archives to a client that regularly requested a feed once an hour!).
So old posts are not likely to show in a feed, but if you did the setup correctly, once Facebook approves your feed, you should start seeing your posts from that point on!
best,
dave -
I made new articles and refreshed Facebook’s RSS feed grab and It still doesn’t show up.
In “Facebook RSS” article it’s said that
The Instant Articles system requires access to each article’s standard web URL to render the content properly.
which could mean that the meta tag, that needs to be put at the <head> inside the HTML of the website is the access key that Facebook wants in order for them to grab the content.
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The URL is in the feed already though as part of the XML.
You did not mention if you put the html tag in the <head> of your page
To register one or more URLs for your Page, go to Publishing Tools on your Page, click Configuration under the Instant Articles header and scroll down to Register Your URL. You’ll need to input the tag specified on that page in the <head> tag of your website’s HTML and then select the URL(s) you’d like to register.
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That will prevent FB from picking up the feed.
New feeds go through an approval process before they are allowed on FB. If you have done all of the steps required, they may simply not have gotten to you yet:
Submit 5 Articles for Review
Every new publisher must be approved by Facebook before publication can begin. Review may take 2 business days.
Make sure you’re ready to submit with our Submission Checklist. Use the Facebook Pages Manager app to preview Instant Articles on your mobile device. Download it for iOS or Android if you don’t have it already.
The submission checklist:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instant-articles/get-started/article-review#checklistI can only guess that you are following ALL of the steps in the procedures listed in the Facebook documentation, my suggestions are based upon that premise.
I would still like very much to see you succeed in this, but the support in the WordPress forums is meant for WordPress exclusively and this is somewhat of a grey area…
You might have better luck with Facebook’s help folks, since the majority of the steps, procedures, and configuration is on their end. There are some very active forums at https://www.facebook.com/help/community
Let me know how you are progressing
dave -
Yeah this is more of a grey area since this isn’t a feature of WordPress.
It could easily be done on WordPress.org but, I like the simplicity and community of WordPress.com
Thanks for the help
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Hey Phi
I still would like to know how you make out in the end, and if you think of it let us know what the major hurdles were and their solutions!best,
dave -
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To request new features such as Facebook instant articles we start a thread in the Ideas Forum. Here’s the link https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/ideas#postform
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