Update: I created a snippet for my functions.php file to add the “article:published_date” tag manually for all posts. Now Pinterest recognizes the field properly.
Even if this solution works for now, the question still remains, why RankMath does not insert the tag itself.
The issue with the author field remains: Why does Pinterest not recognize this, although “article: author” is present?
Update: Doing a bit of research I discovered from this thread, that you have to fill out the Facebook Page URL / Facebook Authorship fields in Social-Meta settings for the missing article:author field to shop up.
Sadly Pinterest still doesn’t recognize the field and claims that “Authors” is still missing. Since its missing too, I’ve tried to find a solution for adding the “article:published_time” tag, but to no avail.
I’m at a loss here 🙁
Update: I’ve got it working. Disabled the ouput of your “article:author” meta tag and used my own.
<meta property="article:author" content="My Name">
It seems Facebook and Pinterest expecting different data, because without an URL Pinterest recognizes the field. Since I dont really care about FB I’ll stick with that for now.
Unfortunately, the validation still does not work. An empty error message “Missing fields:” is displayed and a red exclamation mark can be seen for “Rich Pins enabled”. Everything else is green now.
Any idea how I can fix that?
Hello,
You seem to have resolved this issue.
Rank math does add the published date and author meta from your page published data and author from your facebook data in Rank math > Titles & Meta > Social Meta
Do you still want us to look into this?
Looking forward helping you.
Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
Thank you.
