Ads Not Rotating

  • I have a place with 2 linked ads. In my sidebar, I added that place widget two times, as I want both ads to display. This works as I’d like, however the ads don’t rotate. They are in the same place each time – the one with the lower ID on top and the higher ID on bottom.

    Unless I’m misunderstanding, the ads should be rotating on each page refresh?

    Here is an example page:

    https://www.theyellowpup.com/blog/

    In the sidebar, you’ll see 2 large 250×250 ads. Those are rotating as expected, as I have 5 ads total in that place. However, the smaller ads below it (250×100) are not rotating at all.

    SAM Pro Edition: Free
    SAM Pro Version: 1.9.3.59
    SAM Pro DB Version: 1.1
    Wordpress Version: 4.6
    PHP Version: 5.4.42
    MySQL Version: 5.5.50-cll
    PHP Max Execution Time: 300
    PHP Memory Limit: 256M
    WP Memory Limit: 256M

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/sam-pro-free/

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  • Plugin Author minimus

    (@minimus)

    All right, so it should be.
    1. You have 2 ads for the same place. You use this Place twice on the same page. When the first instance of Place queries the current ad it gets the first ad from the queue. When the second instance makes a request of current ad, it will receive a second ad from the queue, because the first ad has already been shown and another ads are no in queue. And so each time you restart the page.
    2. Each object Place is a virtual representation of the physical space on the site page. From this it follows that the repeated use of the same instance of object Place on the same page does not provide a plugin concept and therefore is not welcome.

    Thread Starter laurameggleston

    (@laurameggleston)

    So is there any option in the plugin that would support that functionality? Where I can, for example, have a spot that shows 2 ads and changes which is displayed first on page refresh? Or, is there a way to have a plave display more than one ad at a time?

    Plugin Author minimus

    (@minimus)

    Ad Slider for SAM Pro addon. You can purchase it on the CodeCanyon.

    Thread Starter laurameggleston

    (@laurameggleston)

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    Thread Starter laurameggleston

    (@laurameggleston)

    Unfortunately that doesn’t solve my problem. I don’t want a slider rotating between two ads. Basically what I want is:

    [ad area]
    [ad area]

    each place has 2 ads in it – ad1 and ad2. I’d like them to change the order, for example on the first page refresh:

    [ad area filled with ad1]
    [ad area filled with ad2]

    but then when you refresh the page

    [ad area filled with ad2]
    [ad area filled with ad1]

    I’d like it to randomly pull in an ad from that place.

    This very well could be me misunderstanding setup of ads/places/etc and I understand that. I tried using blocks, but doing that still pulled them in in the exact same order. ad1 is always first, ad2 is always below it. IT doesn’t not change when refreshing the page (also tried clearing cache/viewing in other browsers). Please advise.

    Plugin Author minimus

    (@minimus)

    You can use Block (2×1 with randomising of items positions), but this feature is available only in SAM Pro Lite…

    Thread Starter laurameggleston

    (@laurameggleston)

    If that’s available in the lite version, I have no problem upgrading – Thanks so much! This plugin is amazing, so I’m more than happy to upgrade. ??

    Thank you!

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