Update Facebook Instant Article with new content
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Hello,
Does the plugin add op-published and op-modified <time> elements when a post is updated?
When I update a blog post, I notice that the Facebook Instant Article isn’t updated and still displaying old content.
Thanks,
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Re-scraping shouldn’t have any effect. It controls Facebook’s cache of Open Graph metadata. That data controls how facebook shares look (the cover image, the title, the excerpt) but has nothing to do with Instant Articles.
(I did try rescraping the post I’m testing, but it had no effect on the out of date Instant Article version, as expected)
(I also tried unpublishing and republishing the post, also to no effect)
Instant Article data is sent to FB when the post is published, and stored in a different location from the OG data as far as I can tell.
Previously, whenever a post was re-saved, the data was re-sent, so all you had to do to update an Instant Article was save the post with new content.
For me this is NOT working right now. Nothing I do is causing the data to be re-sent, it’s stuck in whatever format was there when I first published.
This is terrible, and most users won’t even notice that their content is totally out of date, because they won’t check the Instant Article format (which is a pain to do for an old post even if you think of it).
Anyone else having this problem all of a sudden?
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