General FAQ's and Common Issues

#General FAQs

General FAQ's addressing what AMP is and how it works can be found here.

Additional information about how to customize your AMP plugin, advertising, and analytics can be found here.

And finally, information about how to tell if your AMP plugin is working and navigation/menu questions, visit this FAQ here.

#Common Issues ##Help! My AMP URL redirects me to my non-AMP page! Solution: Check to make sure the plugin is activated—often times, this is caused by not activating the plugin itself, which causes the /amp/ at the end of your pages to redirect to the normal page. Turn that plugin on, and Presto! This issue is solved!

##Google says, “A value for the image field is required.” Solution: Add a featured image to your post. To show the card at the top of search results, it’s important to include a featured image for Google to consider a post “valid”.

What if I don't have a featured image for each post? We’d recommend creating a generic image to use with each post for optimized viewing. That will make your post appear more attractive on Google itself without requiring you to find a new, unique image; featured images are currently necessary for Google to index your AMP-powered pages, so if you have one to include in every post, that will not only resolve this issue, but it will also help with SEO!

The AMP WP plugin currently creates metadata for the featured image for you, which is why it’s so important to have one.

##I am getting a loading error on my AMP posts--the background seems to load, but the rest of the page (including images) isn't loading quickly or at all. What's wrong? Most likely, another plugin may be interfering with your AMP posts--if you've installed a few new plugins, try deactivating them one at a time to see if that makes a difference. Certain settings can interfere with the loading of the page, so once you narrow it down, try adjusting the settings and extensions as well on other plugins. That can help!

##Help! My question wasn't answered in the above. Check out the AMP help forums here. :) You might find your question has already been answered, or you can post a new one.