Dynamic Group Display Problem

  • Resolved adjunctadvocate

    (@adjunctadvocate)


    6 years, 8 months ago

    I updated to the latest version. As an aside, I optimized the AdRotate database using the plugin and it CORRUPTED the AdRotate database. I had to uninstall the plugin, reinstall and upload and configure all ads from scratch. This is when I realized that when I created groups, made the group dynamic and inserted the AdRotate widget, the ad size changed from the original size of the image (Banner) to 140×140 for all ads in my narrow sidebar. In my larger sidebar, similarly, grouped, dynamic ads were reduced in size.

    Any idea why this is happening and how it can be fixed? Prior to the update/reinstallation, ad groups that made use of the dynamic option worked fine.

    Thanks!

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  • Plugin Author Arnan de Gans

    (@adegans)

    An optimize command on MySQL does not corrupt data – Something else must have been wrong. Is the new installation working OK?

    As for the size – try setting the advert size to the correct height and width.

    Thread Starter adjunctadvocate

    (@adjunctadvocate)

    You marked the issue as “Resolved?” Are you kidding me?

    “An optimize command on MySQL does not corrupt data….” Um, there is a link coded in your plugin that, when used, optimizes the MySQL database. When the “optimization” was finished, the database for the plugin was corrupted (all ad data was deleted). So, yes, the optimize command coded into your plugin (different from the optimize command used directly through the CPanel of the website) corrupted the plugin’s database. When I optimized several other databases using the CPanel, none of that data was corrupted.

    “Try setting the advert size to the correct height and width.” What? Prior to the update, the ad sizes were appearing correctly in both dynamic and static modes/groups. I didn’t update the plugin and then resize all of the ads. After I updated, dynamic mode stopped rendering ad sizes correctly.

    With every update to your plugin, it used more and more CPU and slowed down the site. By the final update, the plugin sent numerous database queries and the query monitor indicated the ad tracker crashed and could not be repaired. After several years of using your plugin, I switched to Ad Inserter, a lightweight plugin that is quite easy to configure and does the job perfectly.

    Thanks for providing your plugin and good luck with your product, but there are other, more elegantly coded, banner ad plugins out there now.

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