PVC and Facebook Instant Articles

  • Hi,

    We’ve just started using Facebook Instant Articles to push content to Facebook and one thing I’m wondering is if Post View Counter will count impressions from Instant Articles.

    The documentation of FIA states, that the instant articles source URL is simulated to be our main page URL, but since I also had to manually insert the Google Analytics tracking script into FIA, I’m wondering how will PVC act along. Because if it won’t at all and the numbers will be scraped of the views on the FIA.. We can’t use PVC anymore.

    Hope any answers will help others too.

    Thanks!

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  • Plugin Author dFactory

    (@dfactory)

    Hi,
    Hard to say – we didn’t use the Facebook Instant Articles, you’d have to do your own tests.

    But PVC relies on post id – it needs to be set in order PVC assigns a view to a post (of any type). If FIA is not related to any post or it has not any post representation in a WP install PVC will not work.

    There is a pvc_view_post( $post_id = 0 ) function that allows you to manually insert views, in custom code, functionalities or endpoints, but it requires a post id to be able to assign the view to a post.

    Regards,
    Bartosz / dfactory team

    Thread Starter sel

    (@glashsix)

    Hi Bartozs,

    Thanks for the VERY ?? quick response. Any information on this is great. I will consult with my colleagues and test it. I’ll post any findings in this thread.

    Bests!

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