Investigate the paid newsArticle Yoast add on

[MirandaEcho]

• [x] Research the plugin & its functionality for adding schema output to articles. In particular:

• Article Pages: Implement the NewsArticle Schema (example: https://jsonld.com/news-article/)
• Fix error on article pages - implement Publisher with SameAs schema
• Homepage format changes: Use NewsMediaOrganization type schema Add social media accounts with sameAs attribute: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/publicsource/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/publicsource/ Twitter: @PublicSourcePA

• [ ] Look for any potential issues with the plugin on the Public Source site

End goal: Estimate for installing and configuring for the above changes on their site.

[benlk]

$69 for the plugin: https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/news-seo/ $129 Deal if they don't already have Yoast Premium: https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/yoast-news-premium-bundle/ Some docs: https://developer.yoast.com/features/schema/plugins/news-seo/ Plugin on GitHub: https://github.com/Yoast/wpseo-news

I downloaded a copy of the plugin from the Yoast GitHub repo and checked to see if it functions as described.

• sameAs should be implemented by the core Yoast SEO plugin via the settings at Dashboard > SEO > Social > Accounts, if I'm reading the source code right, but if it isn't we can use a filter on it at https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/blob/43b776a0785af5023107fb1c3007fcbef49d2aa0/src/generators/schema/organization.php#L79
• even with the plugin active, articles appear to be presented as @type of "Webpage", not "Article" or "NewsArticle"

I'm not sure that the plugin works in a WP_DEBUG environment without a license key.

Installing and activating and configuring the plugin would take ~1h. Filters if needed wold be 2h custom dev.

[MirandaEcho]

Tell me more about the filters and why those might be needed

[benlk]

If the plugin doesn't set the sameAs metadata, then we'd need to set that metadata ourselves. We won't know if it's necessary until PS buys a license for the plugin.