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I’m experiencing the exact same thing.
My feed is updated. Google News Live Preview is accurate. But some pages aren’t even being crawled and some aren’t showing in Google news at all.

Hello @christopheran
As promised, here’s an update.
Articles have stopped being crawled again. So I’ve requested it manually in Search Console.
Hopefully this helps update it.

Good evening @christopheran.

No, I’m still a bit confused. It seems some are being crawled and others aren’t.
For example 3 recent articles, but only 2 appear.

It seems to help if I log into Google Console and manually request indexing.
Obviously this isn’t ideal, so hopefully it improves.

I’m not doing anything different on my end.
Thanks again for reaching out.
I’ll be sure to update this post should anything happen.

@christopheran Thank you again for your reply. Sorry for the late response.

For Pages being listed as invalid or excluded, I mean that in Google Search Console all of my pages are being discovered, but not indexed.

When you click on the graph, it lists them and says “Status: Excluded”.

And they’re not appearing in Google News app, even though they appear in the preview on Google News Publisher Center.

I have successfully made one page appear by manually requesting indexing though.

Thank you for your in-sight.

@christopheran Thank you again for your insight.

Yes, things are now appearing in the preview.
And fortunately the Feed validates just fine.

It’s more so that they aren’t being crawled on Google Search Console that’s bothering me. Despite being “Live”.
The only page that is noted as valid is the homepage.
Every other page is listed as invalid or excluded on purpose.

I will check Google Search Console and Google News again tomorrow.

@christopheran I see thank you for your reply.

It seems that my preview isn’t even loading today.

But maybe this is all my fault.
Originally I migrated my site to its new domain (backed up and re-uploaded).
Yesterday I removed all contents from the old site. And now this morning the preview for the new site doesn’t work.

Could there be issues with having moved my site?

All links were updated and the RSS feed works.
This is my new site.

EDIT:
Less than 15 minutes later the feed preview has returned…
I’m so puzzled and don’t know what to do. Search Console still has no data.

UPDATE:
Not sure if relevant, but I tried to Live Test the GN Feed URL and it says indexing requested rejects. Screenshot here.

And the reason appears to be something to do with “Excluded with NoIndex Tag”.
Screenshot here.
Maybe these aren’t supposed to be indexed though? I’m not sure.
Thanks.

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@christopheran Thank you for getting back to me.

Yes, everything appears in the preview. It says it’s live.
You can see a screenshot here.

The RSS feed is working in an RSS app.
Thank you.

@tobiasbg Ok, thank you again.
I will do some testing with additional tables.

If not I may have to explore alternatives to Frontend Checklist.

Thank you for your time.
Best regards.

@tobiasbg Thank you for taking the time to get back to me.

This is an interesting solution.
I hadn’t considered using html in the cells.

I’m currently using Frontend Checklist Plugin Shortcode:

[frontend-checklist name="001"]

(However this way not only do I have to create the checklist every time, I also have to change the numbers for every cell.)

The leading zeros can probably be ignored so 001 becomes 1. This won’t be an issue. I could create a separate cell for the card numbers.

Would using the method you suggest have to be changed for different tables?

So Table 1 would be: id="frontend-checklist-{ROW}-item-0"
And Table 2 would be: id="frontend-checklist-2-{ROW}-item-0"
etc?

And this would store the value?

Thank you for your time.
I appreciate your explanation.

@christopheran
It seems we finally have success.

Google News team replied to me, and basically confirmed they knew of the issues and it was just a case of waiting for the algorithm to fetch the data.

They mentioned the more sections you add, or change, or delete and re-add, it can make wait times longer.
So if anyone’s reading this with the same issue, leave your most recent section, and just wait.

It took 3 days, but my Articles finally refreshed, and are now showing in the News preview and I could submit for approval. Let’s just hope they go live easily once approved.

Thanks again for your help Chris, and for developing the plugin.
I appreciate your time.

@christopheran Hello again. Sorry for the delay (timezones).

I’ve just checked and it still hasn’t updated from yesterday.
No articles are showing and it still says:

There are no articles in this section

It’s very strange.
I’m not sure what more I can do.

Is there anything I should be doing on WordPresses side?
Thanks again for your time. I really appreciate it.

@christopheran Thank you for your response. I appreciate your time.

To make sure I followed your instructions accurately, I deleted all sections and started again using the following link:

https://www.whygames.co.uk/feed/gn

(you can see a screenshot here).

I’ve waited 20 minutes and refreshed, and still doesn’t appear to be fetching.

RE your question, I’ve had GN Publisher installed for about 3 weeks (since the beginning of the site) and published 12 Posts since.

Thank you again.

I finally reached a GoDaddy advisor who knew what I was talking about, but they said this:

Thank you for staying connected. I am really sorry for the inconvenience caused to you. By default, the crawler will be enabled only and we did not disable it. The cPanel page that you are able to see is the same one we are seeing from our end.

So I have no idea why Google won’t fetch.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank yo in advance for your time.

@tobiasbg Hello, thank you for replying. I appreciate your time.

I see. I’ve just tested on my MacBook and you are correct, the CSS above works as expected when the MacOS is switched between Light and Dark mode.

I guess it’s a theme issue, as in Mobile (or thin Browsers), an Icon appears and allows switching to a Dark Mode. It’s at this point it no-longer works.

I will have to try and figure out a way to include the table in the Themes Dark Mode settings, or even just to exclude the text from the table when switch.

Thanks again.