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Hi @digitalbizralph

You can change this quite easily in the template files (via a Child theme, of course) – in template-parts edit content.php and change the reference on line 40:
the_content( esc_html__( 'Read More', 'atomic-blocks' ) );

to:

if (is_category()) {
  // Get the content
   the_excerpt( esc_html__( 'Read More', 'atomic-blocks' ) );
   }
 else {
   the_content( esc_html__( 'Read More', 'atomic-blocks' ) );
   }

Sorry for the delayed reply – many thanks for the fix, all’s fine now!

Cheers,
Paul

Hi Bradford,

I posted the results of that in an earlier comment; the reasons are, I’m sure, correct, but I’m not clear as to why it’s happening for just a small number of articles, and why these errors aren’t reported for the other published articles that contain the same structure. It’s possibly a validation glitch on Apple’s side; I’ve reported it to them, but they just replied with an unhelpful description of the error I sent them rather than an answer to the query. I’m not really concerned about it myself anymore as most other articles are publishing ok (even though they appear to contain the exact same structure and relative URLs etc. as the failed articles), but thought it might be useful to report that it seems to be a limited and intermittent issue, in case it’s happened to others.

The error was:

Error: Unable to determine mime type of URL [bundle://unnamed-1-1-e1461580910756.jpg]
document -> metadata -> thumbnailURL

Error: "text" was "\"\"" should be not (null or an empty string)
document -> components -> [6] -> text

Error: no components defined for role=body
document -> components -> [6]

Many thanks,
Paul

Hi Bradford, further to my earlier comment, the issue only seems to be affecting a small number of posts; new posts are publishing, as are some older posts that hadn’t already been published. I can’t work out what makes these two or three posts less acceptable than the others; they only contain text and images, whereas other articles that have been published also contain embedded videos. It’s not as big an issue as I first thought, as it does only seem to be affecting a tiny proportion of our articles and new articles are publishing fine so far.

Below is a larger chunk of a problematic article.json file if it’s useful in any way:

{"version":"1.1","identifier":"post-27018","language":"en","title":"Whitworth textiles exhibitions review","documentStyle":{"backgroundColor":"#FFFFFF"},"layout":{"columns":7,"width":1024,"margin":100,"gutter":20},"components":[{"role":"title","text":"Whitworth textiles exhibitions review","textStyle":"default-title"},{"role":"container","layout":"headerContainerLayout","style":{"fill":{"type":"image","URL":"bundle:\/\/unnamed-1-1-e1461580910756.jpg","fillMode":"cover"}},"behavior":{"type":"background_parallax"}},{"role":"byline","text":"by Cari Morton | May 2, 2016 | 9:00 AM","textStyle":"default-byline","layout":"byline-layout"},{"role":"body","text":"Textiles exhibitions are not that common in our national museums and galleries, especially textile design exhibitions, so it\u2019s exciting that the [Whitworth Art Gallery](http:\/\/www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk\/) in Manchester is currently host three textiles and surface pattern exhibitions concurrently.","format":"markdown","textStyle":"dropcapBodyStyle","layout":"body-layout"},{"role":"photo","URL":"bundle:\/\/unnamed-2-494x317.jpg","layout":"anchor-layout-right","anchor":{"targetComponentIdentifier":"component-572c4a7b21953","targetAnchorPosition":"center","rangeStart":0,"rangeLength":1},"animation":{"type":"fade_in","userControllable":true,"initialAlpha":0}},{"role":"body","text":"The Tibor Reich exhibition in particular is worth the visit. On until August 2016, the exhibition is a retrospective of Reich Ltd\u2019s brightly coloured post-war industrial design. The second exhibition room is a riot of colour, with overlapping fabrics hung from the ceiling and so many patterns and colours vying for your attention. The range of the output is fascinating, not just in terms of the different styles employed but also in their application. The designs were applied to fabrics, both printed and woven, blankets, tufted and woven rugs, as well ceramics, including interior tiles, pots and tea sets.\n\nThe fabrics are heavily pattern-based, encompassing a vast range of design styles, from detailed florals to bold geometrics, explored at varying scales across the fabrics. Some of the ceramics on display also employ pattern repeats but many of them use a markedly different aesthetic, featuring his figurative illustrations of characterful people. The first exhibition room displays lots of these illustrative drawings alongside paper-based designs and architectural designs for his own house.","format":"markdown","textStyle":"default-body","layout":"body-layout","identifier":"component-572c4a7b21953"},{"role":"body","text":"","format":"markdown","textStyle":"default-body","layout":"body-layout","identifier":"component-572c4a7b24061"},{"role":"photo","URL":"bundle:\/\/unnamed-1-1-494x371.jpg","layout":"anchor-layout-right","anchor":{"targetComponentIdentifier":"component-572c4a7b24061","targetAnchorPosition":"center","rangeStart":0,"rangeLength":1},"animation":{"type":"fade_in","userControllable":true,"initialAlpha":0}},{"role":"photo","URL":"bundle:\/\/unnamed-2-1-494x354.jpg","layout":"anchor-layout-right","anchor":{"targetComponentIdentifier":"component-572c4a7b2676f","targetAnchorPosition":"center","rangeStart":0,"rangeLength":1},"animation":{"type":"fade_in","userControllable":true,"initialAlpha":0}}, (etc. etc. etc.

Excellent plugin by the way; it’s been very useful to us in getting our content out!

Hi Bradford,

The error being reported by the console is:

Error: Unable to determine mime type of URL [bundle://unnamed-1-1-e1461580910756.jpg]
document -> metadata -> thumbnailURL

Error: “text” was “\”\”” should be not (null or an empty string)
document -> components -> [6] -> text

Error: no components defined for role=body
document -> components -> [6]

However, the first of these regarding mimetype (which I think is the same as reported by Riley) also comes up for one of the articles that has already successfully published. The text and body errors seem odd, as those elements are in the json I’m submitting, e.g.:

{"role":"body","text":"The Tibor Reich exhibition in particular is worth the visit. On until August 2016, the exhibition is a retrospective of Reich Ltd\u2019s brightly coloured post-war industrial design. The second exhibition room is a riot of colour, with overlapping fabrics hung from the ceiling and so many patterns and colours vying for your attention. The range of the output is fascinating, not just in terms of the different styles employed but also in their application. The designs were applied to fabrics, both printed and woven, blankets, tufted and woven rugs, as well ceramics, including interior tiles, pots and tea sets.\n\nThe fabrics are heavily pattern-based, encompassing a vast range of design styles, from detailed florals to bold geometrics, explored at varying scales across the fabrics. Some of the ceramics on display also employ pattern repeats but many of them use a markedly different aesthetic, featuring his figurative illustrations of characterful people. The first exhibition room displays lots of these illustrative drawings alongside paper-based designs and architectural designs for his own house.","format":"markdown","textStyle":"default-body","layout":"body-layout","identifier":"component-572c4a7b21953"}

I’m having the same problem. Here’s a sample:

<html lang="en" prefix="op: https://media.facebook.com/op#">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<link rel="canonical" href="https://weareoca.com/fine-art/a-colourful-composition/">
<meta property="op:markup_version" content="v1.0">
</head>
<body>
        <article><header><!-- title --><h1>A colourful composition</h1>

				<!-- kicker -->
				<!-- TODO -->

                <!-- publication date/time -->
				<time class="op-published" datetime="2016-03-24T09:00:34+00:00">24 March 2016, 9:00 am</time><!-- modification date/time --><time class="op-modified" datetime="2016-03-24T12:07:39+00:00">24 March 2016, 12:07 pm</time><!-- author(s) --><address>
                    <a>Emma</a>
                                    </address>

				<!-- cover -->
				                    <figure><img src="https://weareoca.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/kandinsky.comp-8-e1458577885277.jpg"></figure></header><!-- body --><footer></footer></article>
</body>
</html>

I’m thinking that’s the most likely explanation at the moment. Apple only opened up News to every publisher yesterday, so the system is probably struggling to cope with keen folks like ourselves! ??

No, I haven’t submitted for approval yet as, like you, I want to be sure it’s working first. Manually created articles through Apple’s own interface don’t seem to be appearing in the under published either, so I’m inclined towards this being either an issue on Apple’s end or there is an intentional lag time between clicking publish and the article being published. I’m having to bulk publish articles in WP, as the auto-publish doesn’t seem to be being triggered. Perhaps a Cron is needed for that to work…

I’m having the same issue; my drafts are appearing in Apple News under ‘Drafts’ but despite being listed as Published on the WP side, nothing is showing up in Apple News via the management interface under ‘Published’ or the App.

Thanks for the quick reply, but I’ve uninstalled and re0installed the plugin afresh and I’m still seeing a blank screen as the operator via the Dashboard. The ‘Chat with us’ popup is showing ok for the public user ok, it’s just the back-end that isn’t working. The link the operator is sent to is /wp-admin/admin.php?page=yith_live_chat – is that correct?

I’m in a similar position; have either of you found a good solution to this yet?