ComboStrap Metadata - Article Page (News, Blog)

About

article is a type of page that defines a page where most of the content is textual and is meant to be read.

This type of page understands also the subtype:

news
blog

Example:

wiki article,
news article,
blog,
piece of investigative report

If you don't defined a published date, the creation date is taken.

Usage

Google Rich Result

Setting a page to article enables:

the article card (advanced SEO).
and the Speakable feature for the title and the description if set

Google understands the following article type that we matches to the following type values

Value	Google (Schema.org)
article	Article
news	NewsArticle
blog	BlogPosting

Facebook

Facebook uses the article type to create cards and follows the article ogp type.

Properties

Automatically

When a page gets the article type, the below properties are automatically added.

Google (ld-json)	Facebook (ogp)	Description
datePublished	published_time	When the article was first published - The published date or the creation date if not available
dateModified	modified_time	When the article was last changed.
author	author	Writers of the article
headline	title	The headline of the article (ie the first 110 characters of the title)
Na	description	The description of the article
publisher.name	Na	The name of the publisher (the dokuwiki wiki title configuration)
publisher.logo.url	Na	The URL of the logo
image	image	Image that belongs to the article (The page image)

Manually

With the manual json-ld property, you can also add extra json-ld properties.

For instance, if you want to add a keywords property

{
    "type":"article",
    "json-ld": {
        "keywords":"article, json-ld, semantic"
    }
}

Image

By default, ComboStap will set the page image.

Google recommends to provide multiple images with

a high-resolution (minimum of 300,000 pixels when multiplying width and height)
the following aspect ratios: 16×9, 4×3, and 1×1.

You can create them and set them with the image property even if the standard does not allow it.

{
    "type":"article",
    "image": [
            ":photos:1x1:photo.jpg",
            ":photos:4x3:photo.jpg",
            ":photos:16x9:photo.jpg"
    ]
}