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Good suggestion @radiomantodd.

Although I’m sure you’ve noticed that there are some of the highlights already on the Changelog page, I’ve taken note of your request to make this more comprehensive.

Thanks again!

Thanks for the example @lisota.

We’ll attempt to reproduce the issue and will get back in touch for some more information if we aren’t able to reproduce on our end.

Thanks again!

@schneidan, I just wanted to note that I’ve opened an issue on GitHub which includes this feature request: https://github.com/Automattic/facebook-instant-articles-wp/issues/186

Cheers!

Thanks for this suggestion, @lisota.

I’ve opened an issue on GitHub which includes this feature request: https://github.com/Automattic/facebook-instant-articles-wp/issues/186

If it’s ok with you, I’m marking this thread as “resolved” to avoid duplication.

Cheers!

Hello again, @lisota ??

How do your Polldaddy embeds get placed into a WordPress post? Is it by their plugin automatically/with a tag or by a raw embed snippet/iframe?

I think there should be a way to support this, especially if there’s an embed code that can be used. I’ll await your reply to the above.

Currently, our plugin doesn’t support the ability to exclude individual posts from being published as Instant Articles. The good news is you’re not the first to request/inquire about this so it’s been tagged as a feature request.

Thanks again.

@lisota, I’ve taken note of your feedback — it’s much appreciated!

Also, regarding the performance, the latest release (v2.9 as of now), contains some significant improvements to performance. Could you give that a try and see if your experience is better?

I’m marking this as “resolved” for now.

Hi, krausing. Thanks for the feedback.

Could you provide some more information about the issue you’re having? That will help us investigate this further the issue.

To your 1st question, could you clarify what is meant by the “Facebook debugger” in this context?

Regarding your 2nd question, to clarify: are you saying you’re experiencing that hours after saving one of your WordPress posts and having it be published as an Instant Article to Facebook, that creating a post within Facebook with a link to your WordPress post generates a 404 error? Could you share a sample link?

Thanks again!

Hi, HoussenMoshine. Thanks for the reporting this.

Could you provide more information about what a “planified article” is?

Hi, maccas83.

Could you provide the debug output shown in the post edit screen on the Facebook Instant Article box (after clicking the “toggle debug information” link)?

This will help us investigate further.

Thanks again!

Glad you found a solution! Marking as resolved.

Hi, johanvoets. Thanks for the feedback.

Could you provide some more information about the issue you’re having? That will help in the investigation.

– What do you mean by “concept article”?
– What “theme” are you expecting the post to be skinned with?

Additionally:
– What version of the plugin are you using?
– What version of WordPress are you using?
– Is there any debug output shown in the post edit screen on the Facebook Instant Article box (after clicking the “toggle debug information” link)?

Thanks again!

Hi @andhel.

Thanks for the reporting this with clear reproduction steps and details!

We’ll attempt to reproduce the issue and will get back in touch for some more information if we aren’t able to reproduce on our end.

3. Regarding the Like button not appearing: it’s a common misconception that this “Like” is associated with the article when in fact, it relates to your Facebook page. More likely than not, you already “like” your own page ?? and its behaviour is to not appear when you’ve already “like” it.

Thanks again!

@maxxnz, actually, it was my mistake when I mentioned that tags in captions are escaped. You are correct to mention that they are not escaped.

So that I can better debug and reproduce this, could you provide some links to example articles (if you have them live) which contain image captions with links? You also mentioned that for some of your articles, the link renders as expected — is this true and if so, could you also provide a link to an example so we can try to differentiate?

Additionally, it would be great if you can provide the debug output shown in the post edit screen on the Facebook Instant Article box (both sides after clicking the “toggle debug information” link).

Thanks again.

You’re welcome! Glad it worked out.

Hi @mdotk.

Can you try placing the following under the Plugin Configuration > Publishing Settings > Custom transformer rules in the Settings page of the plugin? It seems to have done the trick for me using the source markup you provided in your previous comment:

{
    "rules":
    [
        {
            "class": "SocialEmbedRule",
            "selector" : "div.su-youtube",
            "properties" : {
                "socialembed.url" : {
                    "type" : "string",
                    "selector" : "iframe",
                    "attribute": "src"
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}

Background: our plugin makes use of the Facebook Instant Articles SDK for PHP which contains a Transformer that does all the heavy lifting of converting general markup into valid Instant Articles markup. The way that it knows how to transform source elements into the valid Instant Articles markup is by a set of rules which defines the mapping of how to parse the content of the post/page.

Our plugin contains Rules which have been pre-defined to satisfy the most common WordPress source markup. While some items (such as shortcodes) are not yet supported you can override and/or define your own rules in the Settings page of the plugin.

That’s what the snippet I provided above does.

For more information please see the Selector Rules section of our Quick Start guide.

Hope that helps!