How to Enable Pinterest Rich Pins

Now that the facts are out, let's walk you through the steps in enabling Rich Pins on your blog

How to Enable Rich Pins Using Yoast Plugin

WordPress users never had it so easy with enabling Rich Pins on their blogs. Bloggers on the WordPress platform can easily enable Rich Pins using the Yoast plugin in 3 simple steps.

You are expected to have signed up for a business account on Pinterest and claimed your website before proceeding with the steps. If you are yet to get any of these done, now would be the right time to do so. Once done, we will proceed with the steps in using Yoast plugin.

Step 1 - Install Yoast plugin for free on your WordPress blog for easier set up of Pinterest Rich Pins

Step 2 - Enable Open Graph Meta data and then go to your WordPress Dashboard , click on "social" and then "Facebook" and finally select "Add Open Graph metadata" completing this with setting to "enabled"

Step 3 - Validate Rich Pins by going to Pinterest Rich Pin Validator and entering the URL for any of your blog's page and click the "Validate" button. Once you receive the message "Your Pins have been validated" you then click on "Apply" and you're good to go.

Within a couple of days, the Pins in your Pinterest account will begin displaying additional information.