Hi there,
Thanks for your support!
I’m unfamiliar with Google news and how it handles files.
Is there support from that side?
I’ll have to have a dig at reproducing your issue to see if I can tell what’s going on. I’ll try to look into it asap.
I find many difficulties in the Forums. One of them is that I speak of Brazil. I have to write and then translate everything. This makes it difficult for me to contact support. I’m not a programmer. I create content for the website “SouEnfermagem“. In order to make the site with good performance and fast loading, I installed the SVG Plugin.
After I installed this problem appeared. I did a lot of research to understand what happened and how to solve it.
The installation of the SUPPORT SVG Plugin affected the YOAST SEO plugin, as well as the SITEMAP XML plugin. They all load the same image, however, they are not loading an SVG image, I don’t know exactly why.
After all that I said, discover yet another error regarding Plugin SVG Support. It affected the site’s RSS Feed. Affected by the image in the Feed has become an SVG and is not compatible with the Feed Feeders we have installed.
Because of this issue, the Feed no longer loads on Printrest and another external site.
It’s a complicated situation and I’m still studying the best way to solve it. I didn’t contact Google News, but I found a response from them on the Forum with the indication to install the PLUGIN NG FEED. The proposal is that this plugin solves the problem of the image not appearing. It remains to be seen with the support of this plugin if it supports image in SVG format. Anyway, it’s a delicate and very common case and a lot of people end up not using the SVG image because they can’t solve it. If I can’t resolve it, I’ll probably have to roll back the installation.
If you’ve read this far, thank you. If you don’t understand something just ask. If you have any suggestions send me. Appreciate.
I understand how hard it must be with the language barrier.
Sounds like you may need to use png/jpg for those images. And make sure you don’t have the setting to force inline SVG enabled in SVG Support settings.
I and many others have used this plugin with yoast… not sure how it’s affecting that or your sitemap to be honest…
I wish I could help more. But I think there’s something else going on. My plugin doesn’t do anything until you upload and use SVG files in your pages or posts. And it shouldn’t affect your sitemap whatsoever.
How did you go?
Did you figure it out?
I’ll mark this as resolved for now because I think it is something outside what my plugin does.
But please let me know if I can help more.
I contacted SITEMAP NEWS support. Look what they replied:
Hi, it looks like every post that has an SVG featured image, has the same og:image meta tag:
og:image -> content=”https://www.souenfermagem.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/grafico_enfermagem_app.png
This does not correspond with that (featured) image in the content. That might be why GN is ignoring them…
Older posts without SVG featured image have a correct og:image tag.
You’ll have to contact the SVG Support devs about why this could be happening…
Link: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-news-svg-2/
COMMENT:
I’m still studying the best way to solve it.
There are three plugins involved in this image issue.
Yoast plugin
SVG plugin
XML Sitemap plugin
I’m studying and seeing what I do to get optimized. At the moment I’m using JPG image, but required for a lightweight web is SVG.
The Yoast Plugin responded by saying that they don’t support SVG images. In that case, I would have to attach two images at the time of posting. An SVG image for the highlight. The second image would be JPG for social media attachment only. But this idea of using two images is not a good thing because it takes work. Anyway, I believe they will still solve it. I’m studying and with time I’ll check how the progress is.
Thanks for the feedback, you can close the topic.
Interesting.
I may be able to add a feature to upload a fallback png/jpg when using an svg as featured image. But that doesn’t solve your problem of using SVG in these circumstances unfortunately.
It does sound like the template for the Google News could handle this. But I’ll have to test with that plugin to know.
I’ll add it to my list of plugins to try and get to play nice.
I’ll also note that yoast doesn’t support SVG and see if I can extend that at all, if it’s a good option.
