AdRotate issue

  • Domain: joeinsider.com
    Theme: StudioPress Magazine Theme 2.0.2
    WP version: 3.8.1

    Been using AdRotate for about six months with no real issues. I created two new advertisements to place in a widget zone directly below the content slider at the top of my page. Everything looked good on the back end, but I got the “Error, no group ID set! Check your syntax!” showing up on the front end.

    I did have a group ID set, just like all my other groups throughout the page.

    I didn’t know how to fix it after doing some troubleshooting, so I deleted the adverts, deleted the advert group and removed the AdRotate plugin from that widget zone. On the front end it still shows the “Advertisement” label for that widget zone and the error message.

    I also created a new ad to place at the top of my right sidebar, which worked fine on the back end but doesn’t show up on the front end. However, I didn’t get an error message for that one.

    I deactivated/activated AdRotate several times and nothing changed. I also cleared my cache to see if it was just taking a while for the changes to show up and that didn’t work either. No clue what to do at this point.

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  • You don’t have a problem with the plugin,your theme will show ads and recognize the plugin if you use the php code and not the id group (in the theme). To implement the ad group, you have two ways:
    1/ In pages
    You need to add your group ID code like this [adrotate group="1" ,you can add that short code anywhere in pages, posts and widgets, but it won’t work in the theme.
    2/ In Theme
    The second way that work with your theme is using the php code, just click on your group name, scroll down to find Usage when you will see the group php code to use (it’s something like <?php echo adrotate_group(1); ?>), the best way to implement that php code in your theme is installing the “Genesis simple hooks” plugin first, then insert the php code anywhere you want and don’t forget to check use php box.

    Update:
    In fact, there is an issue with the Adrotate plugin, it stopped working in the many sites, consider contacting them or use an other one.

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