Product Page Open Graph Tags identifying page as Article NOT Product

The meta data on product pages is identifying the page as an “Article” not a “Product” this was discovered when trying to implement Rich Pins for Pinterest. The Open Graph Tags are also used for Facebook and Instagram, and with direct shopping options becoming more prevalent, this information is vitally important.

Here’s snippet of the meta data from a product page on the Demo website:

<meta property=”og:title” content=”Turtleneck Sweater – Atelier” />
<meta property=”og:type” content=”article” />
<meta property=”og:url” content=”https://atelier.swiftideas.com/product/turtleneck-sweater/&#8221; />
<meta property=”og:site_name” content=”Atelier” />
<meta property=”og:description” content=”Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet isse potenti. Vesquam ante aliquet lacusemper elit. Cras neque nulla, convallis non commodo et, euismod nonsese. At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimos ducimus qui blanditiis praesentium….

As you can see from the highlighted section – the page is being tagged as an “Article” not a “Product”.

I can’t seem to find an option to correct this – but assume this is something that’s autogenerated and hard coded.

based on the valid values for “og:type” it makes sense that product pages have the value “Product” whilst category and shop pages have the value “Product:group” see link for valid values

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/opengraph/

Category and shop pages are currently tagged as: “og:type content=object”

I have spoken with the Theme owners and they’ve indicated that these tags are generated and managed by the WooCommerce plugin.

Please could you advise whether WooCommerce intend on fixing this issue?
Alternatively – is there anyone currently working around this issue with the use of another plugin to clean up the WooCommerce autogenerated meta data?

thanks

Ashley