For a free version, this is better compared to other plugins.

Hi wisernow23 and thank you for your review!

HD Quiz inherits as much from your theme as possible and does not directly affect things like sizes in most cases. If you feel that fonts are too large on mobile devices for you, please reply with a link to a quiz and I can send you some CSS to force the fonts to play nicer on your site.

As for the ads, there were no changes that could have impacted ad placement in the latest version.

As the description for that feature states:

DO NOT USE?if you are already displaying auto ads on your site. HD Quiz will place the ad?code?after every 5th question, but how the ad appears is entirely based on the ads and ad networks themselves.

(note: if you’ve been a long time user, you may not have seen this notice before unless you revisited the settings page. I think I added it to 1.8.7).

Basically, I have zero control over Google auto ads. That’s what makes them “auto” – they place themselves. ??

I recommend either not using google auto ads in the adcode area (you probably already have the ad code on your site, no need to add it in twice), or better yet, you can create a “static” adset which allows you (or in this case, HD Quiz) to manually place them.

Hope this explanation makes sense and let me know if you have any further questions and if you want that mobile CSS.

Thank you for your response. I didn’t include any code in the ad code area box because I read the notice stating that it is unnecessary when using Adsense auto-ads. In previous versions, up until version 1.8.7, the ads appeared as described in the note, such as after every 5th question or when the user answered incorrectly, which was fantastic. However, after updating to version 1.8.8, I noticed the mentioned change, which was also confirmed by one of the visitors to my website. I’m not sure if this change is due to the update or the behavior of the auto ads. In any case, I have decided to roll back to the previous version, and the ads now appear as they did before. However, I still greatly appreciate this specific feature of the plugin (the appearance of the ads), which is not available in other quiz plugins, especially considering it’s a free version.

Thanks for the update. If it’s OK, I’d like to clarify two things.

I didn’t include any code in the ad code area box

So you’re not using the ad feature in HD Quiz, and are just using your site’s regular ads?

ads appeared […] or when the user answered incorrectly

This was never a thing that HD Quiz did. I’m guessing that your Google Adwords set just decided to place some ads in the “extra” text area on its own. It would also only show ads after every 5th question if you are using the adcode feature. Basically, whatever you put in there, (an image, text, adcode, HTML, whatever) would show after every fifth question.

I have a theory, though, based on some things.

First, you said that you are now getting WAY more ads than normal. Second, you said that the ads used to appear after every 5th question, even though you were not using that feature (this means that Google decided to do this all on its own, which is very coincidental).

Have you EVER in the past put adcode into that section? Right now, my best guess is that you had adcode there in the past and saved. The code is now stored in your database ready to go. However, perhaps due to some other security plugin you had at some point, when loading this code, the scripts were being stripped out.

The ONLY change to ads in this latest version is that before printing the ads, the code is run through WordPress’ the_content filter. This is so that users can also use shortcodes in that section, allowing us to be compatible with ad mangers and things. If I’m right, then this might explain the behaviour.

If this is the case, you have two possible options to test / fix.

1. Just enter some random text into the adcode area and save. This should flush out any old data that you previously had saved. You can then remove all content from that area and save again.
2. If that doesn’t work, you can always edit the plugin directly.
   If you edit ./hd-quiz/includes/template.php on around line 99 you will see
   $hdq_adcode = apply_filters("the_content", stripcslashes(urldecode($hdq_adcode)));
   
   You can change that to:
   $hdq_adcode = stripcslashes(urldecode($hdq_adcode));