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After installing the plugin, go ahead and activate it. Once activated, navigate to Settings > Permalinks, and without changing anything, click save changes. This will ensure the new AMP URLs are active. Go ahead and test it by going to one of your blog posts and adding “/amp/” to the end of it. You should get something like this:
Now that the plugin is activated and AMP pages are showing up, let’s validate them using Chrome.
After clicking Console, move your mouse back up to the address bar and add “#development=1” to the end of your AMP URL. This will turn on the validator. After you’ve added that, refresh the page and you should get this if the page is valid:
You now have a valid AMP. But the process isn’t over.
The meta data portion of your AMPs is handled via the plugin with a .php file. That file can be found under Plugins > Editor > AMP > amp/includes/class-amp-post-template.php. The edits required will differ between themes, so please back up your original code.
Here is an example of the code to edit to your needs (we have already made changes to this code, so yours may differ):
$metadata = array( '@context' => 'http://schema.org', '@type' => 'BlogPosting', 'mainEntityOfPage' => $this->get( 'canonical_url' ), 'publisher' => array( '@type' => 'Organization', 'name' => 'Wpromote', 'logo' => array( '@type' => 'ImageObject', 'url' => 'http://www.wpromote.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wpromote_logo2-01_calogo1166-e1461349206580.jpg', 'width' => 220, 'height' => 60, ), ), 'Image' => array( '@type' => 'ImageObject', 'url' => get_post_photo_url(), 'width' => 1600, 'height' => 375, ), 'headline' => $post_title, 'datePublished' => date( 'c', $post_publish_timestamp ), 'dateModified' => date( 'c', $post_modified_timestamp ), 'author' => array( '@type' => 'Person', 'name' => $post_author->display_name, ), );Remember that your images need to have static sizes, and your logo needs to be at least 60px high.
Check for errors, and use the structured data testing tool to find specific issues. There is also a section in Search Traffic > Search Analytics to see how your AMPs are performing via Clicks and Impressions.
Please note that this plugin creates AMPs for only posts, not pages. This is because currently, posts and news articles are the main focus of AMPs and the Top Stories Carousel.
If you want to track how your AMPs are performing in Google Analytics, you will need to add this script to the end of the amp-wp-master/includes/amp-post-template-actions.php file in the plugin editor. Be sure to put your unique Google Analytics ID in the code, replacing “UA-XXXXX-Y”.
