Title: og:type = Article ?
Last modified: December 22, 2019

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# og:type = Article ?

 *  Resolved [Ambyomoron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josiah-s-carberry/)
 * (@josiah-s-carberry)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ogtype-article/)
 * I note that the function eme_extra_event_headers in eme_functions.php contains
   the statement:
 *     ```
       $header='<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
       ...
       ```
   
 * I wonder why the type is set to “article” and not to “event”

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 *  Plugin Author [Franky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liedekef/)
 * (@liedekef)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ogtype-article/#post-12264013)
 * According to [https://ogp.me/](https://ogp.me/) , there’s no og:type called “
   event”.
 *  Thread Starter [Ambyomoron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josiah-s-carberry/)
 * (@josiah-s-carberry)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ogtype-article/#post-12267080)
 * I am specifically thinking of how Google search results make use of the opengraph
   tags. If you look at [https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/event](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/event)
   it seems clear that the “event” type is indeed supported (at least, by Google).
   Looking at the information at [https://ogp.me/](https://ogp.me/) , I understand
   that opengraph is an “open” standard, using whatever practices the “community”
   uses (whatever that means). It is not limited to the items that are listed there.
   [https://schema.org/Event](https://schema.org/Event) does provide a detailed 
   specification for events, which specification appears to be used by Google.
 *  Plugin Author [Franky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liedekef/)
 * (@liedekef)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ogtype-article/#post-12267120)
 * The page you refer to at Google (which I used too btw), is for json+ld syntax(
   or Microdata or RDFa). And there I do use the Event type. [https://schema.org/Event](https://schema.org/Event)
   also is for json+ld syntax (or Microdata or RDFa), not opengraph.
    So currently
   I’ll stay with og:type=Event for opengraph, google uses the json+ld info anyway
   🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Ambyomoron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josiah-s-carberry/)
 * (@josiah-s-carberry)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ogtype-article/#post-12267125)
 * OK – thanks for that clarification.

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 * Last activity: [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ogtype-article/#post-12267125)
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