I’m having trouble with the Apple News plugin sync in WordPress. I deleted an article multiple times from Apple News Articles, but it is still not getting removed from Apple News. I also tried resetting the sync, but it didn’t help.

When I check the post editor page, the Publish State shows as “Not Found.” Additionally, when I click the Delete button, the page redirects to the Admin dashboard with a message:
“Your article has been removed from Apple News.”

Does anyone know how often the Apple News plugin syncs? And why isn’t the sync updating properly in this case?

i have checked multiple posts but facing same issue.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thank you.

1. Field Title “KEY” Field entry: keywords
2. Field Selection: “TYPE” – Drop Down Selection: string
3. Field Title “VALUE” – Field Entry: strike, uaw, ford, gm

I tried #2 as ”array” as well like this: the output for apple_news_metadata shows as

array ( 0 => array ( 0 => array ( ‘key’ => ‘keywords’, ‘type’ => ‘array’, ‘value’ => ‘strike, uaw, ford, gm, chrysler, united auto workers’, ), ), )

What is correct?

There has been an error with the Apple News API: FAILED_TO_PARSE_IMAGE – Failed to parse image with URI [bundle://AA1cDdpS.jpeg]

Also noticed that images not loading correctly on site. Any ideas why? Help appreciated.

Thanks

“Thank you for following up with us! Actually, after updating your channel to see RSS feeds, we’ve also allowed ANF articles to upload.

We are uncertain why you are getting the error. Please contact https://www.ads-software.com/support/forums/ and search in the Support forums or post the question there.

For your reference, your case number is 101960364318.?“

There are no articles appearing in my Drafts Sections. When publishing new articles I double check all the settings and I am at a standstill. Does anyone have any ideas? Thank you in advance.

We are having issues with previewing articles before submitting them to Apple News approval.

We’ve installed the Apple News plug-in successfully, had to manually enter the API information (Our CMS asked for a PAPI file, and I did know where to retrieve that), and have published a select amount of articles from our CMS.

The status for each published article states “live” in our CMS and is populating the “Drafts” area of the iCloud News Publisher.

Apple advises that we preview our articles before submitting for approval. Unfortunately, we are unable to do that at this time.

Thank you,
– NdS

Here is the error:
There has been an error with the Apple News API: INVALID_DOCUMENT - "URL" was "https://ashleydev.com/title-of-the-article-to-be-embeddedk/embed/#?secret=n3IxPCSAEH#?secret=F2EySfsGEl" should be valid URL with one of ["http","https","#","webcal","stocks","action","music","musics","tel","mailto"] scheme(s) (keyPath components->1->components->7->components->1->additions->0->URL)

I’ve exported the json file and looking at the output. It looks like the plugin is grabbing the embed url created by WordPress, instead of the actual url of the post it should be linking to.

Here is the json snippet:

{
          "layout": "embed-generic-layout",
          "role": "container",
          "components": [
            {
              "role": "heading2",
              "text": "“Title of the article to be embedded—",
              "format": "html"
            },
            {
              "role": "body",
              "text": "<a href=\"https://ashleydev.com/title-of-the-article-to-be-embedded/embed/#?secret=n3IxPCSAEH#?secret=F2EySfsGEl\">View on the original site.</a>",
              "format": "html",
              "textStyle": {
                "fontSize": 14
              }
            }
          ]
        },

Is there a fix for this?

Previous thread:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/video-embed-does-not-work-apple-news/

Our problem is related to featured video posts that are YouTube embeds not being picked up properly by Apple News.

I replied to that thread but realized it might not be seen, so here is what I wrote:

The videos in the articles Mark references are *not* embedded in the body of the text itself. (Most videos that are in the middle of a post are embedded using the oEmbed link so that shouldn’t be a problem.) So that might be why those videos aren’t being pulled by the Apple News feed properly.

We use a plugin called Featured Video Plus (https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/featured-video-plus/) to put in video in place of where a normal featured image would go. We do this so there is the flexibility to put in video there but also be able to use regular featured images for other posts that don’t have video. This plugin also pulls a thumbnail automatically from the YouTube video so that a featured image doesn’t have to be manually uploaded for pages like the archive page, for example.

What seems to be happening from the latest post I looked at is that Apple News is indeed pulling the featured image generated by the plugin (which is the expected behavior for the Apple News feed). What I’m wondering is whether we can make a template tweak to account for stories that have featured video instead, or at least add something in the feed that will take that video URL and actual embed it either at the beginning or the end of the story.

Looking at the underlying code, there is a standard YouTube iframe generated in addition to the HTML5 video player code. Let me know if there’s something we can work with here and I would gladly conjure up some code to make it easier. Thanks.

Screenshot of code is here: https://jenndelafuente.com/apple.png`

Link to post that contains video: https://invisiblepeople.tv/inside-americas-first-safe-drug-consumption-site/

Link to Apple News version (you’ll see that it only has the featured image at the top, not the actual video): https://apple.news/AWtV5_MvNSju5iRGP3zRrbQ

Thanks for your help!

INVALID_DOCUMENT – ‘text’ property is null or not textual. (keyPath components->1->components->2->components->0)
INVALID_DOCUMENT – ‘text’ property is null or not textual. (keyPath components->1->components->2->components->0)
INVALID_DOCUMENT – ‘text’ property is null or not textual. (keyPath components->1->components->2->components->0)
INVALID_DOCUMENT – “text” was should be not (null or an empty string) (keyPath components->1->components->2->components->0->text)