Jay

Ok, I just sent some example URLs to your email. The navigation isn’t working anywhere. This should really be fixed. It’s weird that it stays like this for so long.

Yeah, it happens everywhere. Just use Design 1-3 and see for yourself. Should be easy to reproduce, since it’s pretty widespread.

I’ll run some more tests when the fix is rolled out. I’ll keep you posted, naturally.

[never mind]

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Thank you as well.

I have debugged this issue myself and fixed it. See the above linked github issue for more details.

Could be that Google realizes this has been a screwup and they’re backpedalling on it.

@domdomdomdom

Actually, I did give a useful tip on how to start solving this problem to @considerthis1. However, whenever the boat gets rocked, it’ll take a while for the ripples in the water to smooth out. There’s no telling what helpful stuff the community will come up with in the near term. For some, patience will be required.

I’m a developer and could automate upscaling of featured images if I wanted to. If you’re not a dev, you can pay one to build it for you. Or just wait until someone builds it for free. Maybe there’s a WP plugin out there that can be applied to the problem. WP’s own media library won’t let you scale images larger, only lower.

Google is asking for 1200px wide images, so there’s no rational reason to assume it will have negative impacts on your SEO. Especially if you weren’t actually displaying the featured image in the first place (a reference to it will still appear in the AMP source), like me. And in that case, the image also can’t possibly have a negative impact on your layout. Literally nothing changes.

If you are displaying the featured image and do not want to display it quite so large (and assuming you want to keep using this plugin), then you’ve got no option but to wait until this plugin’s authors add an option for setting maximum limits on the displayed featured image.

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@considerthis1

Where does it say there’s a max 675 height limit? It’s not on the google webmaster guideline page linked earlier in this thread. I’ve fixed a site with higher than 675 images and search console tells me the validation is ‘looking good’.

@domdomdomdom

We? So you’re deciding for everybody else?

Not sure what you’re trying to say, but I highly recommend that people learn the existing definitions of words and then use them correctly. Talking about ‘size’ in reference to ‘dimensions’ creates confusion and costs time.

Changing your featured images won’t change anything about your ranking. If you’re letting featured images somehow influence the formatting of your page, you’re not in control.

That’s the spirit. Although these are just warnings, not errors. These 1200px wide image are for appearing in some sort of news carousel. It won’t magically fix your rankings if something else is holding them back.

There is a nifty plugin that will export your urls for you.

You can paste the urls into a spreadsheet and create a column next to them, where you keep track of whether you’ve processed a certain page yet.

This will help you divvy the work up over a number of days/weeks.

@ampforwp

How come the disabling of the featured image isn’t available for all themes?

It would save loads of bandwidth on our Design 1/2/3 AMP pages.

@havig

You state that 1200 high works too, when Google themselves clearly state that it needs to be 1200 wide?

And what’s this about image weight vs size? Nobody uses the term ‘image weight’. It doesn’t exist.

By weight you actually mean the file size? And by size you actually mean the image dimensions?

I don’t understand where all this confusion comes from.

@domdomdomdom

A few hundred pages is nothing. You can do this in a week or two if you make a plan for it and process a part daily.

As for worrying about images making your total page size too big…

1. Google itself is asking for it. Do you honestly believe you’re going to get penned for feeding the beast what it wants?

2. You can save your 1200 wide (jpg) images at 85% quality or less, which will keep them relatively small.

3. AMP is also about not executing scripts and downloading a whole bunch of other components separately, not just size. Just so long as it’s easy to render for weak mobile devices with shitty connections.

(Let’s hope 5G will deliver us from this relentless AMP mess in about a decade or so.)

@considerthis1

This plugin can’t make your images 1200 wide. You need to do it yourself manually, or somebody needs to write a plugin that will resize featured images automatically.

The latter could happen, because there now exists a market demand for it. I’d do it myself if I wasn’t so damn busy. I’m not going to sit around and wait for it myself.

1200 Pixel wide images are exactly what I’m talking about, mate.

I’ve already resized mine and turned off featured image display at the top of AMP. My problem is solved already.

@domdomdomdom That’s correct, but it still solves the problem of having an ugly-ass 1200 pixel wide image at the top of your AMP pages.

Wide images are usually also higher. Unless you’re wanting to upload panorama pictures.

Hi @ampforwp,

Any progress on this issue yet?

Earlier I was emailed with the request of doing a skype chat. I asked why, and it turns out you guys need more reproduction instructions for some reason?

All you need to do is put a broken image link in a non-AMP page:

<img src="https://nonexistingwebsite.com/nonexistingimage.jpg" />

And then check the AMP output. You’ll see it has no valid values in its dimension attributes width & height.

If you simply initialize both to 0 for images-not-found, then the problem will be resolved.

Sincerely,

Jay

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