How do I submit my articles for review?

  • Resolved aznbbj

    (@aznbbj)


    8 years, 7 months ago

    Hey guys! Thanks for the great plugin. I’m having trouble figuring out how to submit my articles for review.

    From the plugin’s settings page, when I click Step 7, “Submit your articles for review”, I’m redirected to a page with the error: “The link you followed may have expired, or the page may only be visible to an audience you’re not in.”

    If I go to business.facebook.com and navigate to my site’s Instant Articles tab, under Step 2, “Submit For Review”, I see “You have not submitted your articles for review yet.”

    I’m not sure how to initiate the article submission process. I’ve:
    1) Setup my Facebook app, gotten the App ID and App Secret, added my website and app domain
    2) Logged into Facebook through your plugin successfully
    3) Added my FB App ID and Secret to your plugin
    4) Claimed my URL
    5) Installed Pages Manager
    6) Created my style template
    7) Enabled Audience Network
    8) Setup Ads and Google Analytics in the plugin

    What am I doing wrong? Thank you for your help!

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/fb-instant-articles/

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  • You need to insert the feed, which is usually

    sitename.com/feed/intsant-articles

    Refresh your Permalinks if needed, then enter the feed URL into the Production or Development fields under “Tools” in the Instant Article settings on FB

    The plugin needs a bit more detail there so that is clear..

    Thread Starter aznbbj

    (@aznbbj)

    Thanks so much! I added my feed URL to the Development RSS Feed about an hour ago, and it shows that it was ingested (“updated for the last time two minutes ago”).

    I’m still not seeing anything on business.facebook.com > Instant Articles > Development, however. Is there anything else I need to do?

    Take a look at your RSS feed and see if you’re having the same trouble I am… my feed is erroring out so I don’t think FB is accepting it.

    Thread Starter aznbbj

    (@aznbbj)

    Good news — I was able to get it working. A few things to note:

    1) I didn’t realize there was a separate RSS feed for instant articles, doh! I was just putting in my regular feed. Here’s the instant articles feed that this plugin generates: https://yourdomain.com/feed/instant-article
    2) The claimed URL is case sensitive. I capitalized one of my site’s letters, which didn’t match the canonical URL in the RSS feed, so it wasn’t validating. I added my URL again in all lower case and it worked fine.
    3) This is the only part I’m not clear about: At business.facebook.com > my page > settings, I added my feed to FB’s Development RSS Feed, saw nothing for 30 minutes, and decided to add the same feed to the Production RSS Feed. Waited another 15 minutes, and voila at business.facebook.com > my page > publishing tools > instant articles, both the Dev and Production were populated. So not sure if anything I did triggered this, or I just needed to sit tight and be patient.

    Anyway I hope this helps others out.

    BTW thanks radiomantodd for your suggestion. I checked my feed and it is outputting fine — what kind of error are you getting?

    The way you outlines is the RSS submission. I’d prefer to go the API submission route (which the plugin supports). Any idea how to submit through the API instead?

    I’m also interested about the answer that ProblemSolved is looking for ??

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