how do I use widgets AND ads in the same sidebar?

  • I am using the brownline theme, which is a free 3-column theme that can be downloaded from www.ads-software.com. I am trying to place ads in the sidebar. I know how to get the code for the ads and place it in the sidebars. However, once I activate a widget in the sidebar, the ads disappear. Why are my ads and widgets conflicting? More importantly, How do I get both my ads and my widgets to work in the same sidebar?

    My site is SteelersToday.com. You will see that I have ads in the right sidebar, but none in the left sidebar. I tried putting ads in the left sidebar, but they didn’t show up. The only way I was able to get them to show up was by deactivating all of the widgets in the sidebar. How do I make my ads and widgets coexist peacefully?

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  • check the structure of a dynamic sidebar, so that you know where you can add code that will show even if widgets are added to the sidebar:

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/dynamic_sidebar

    if you are stuck with the info, you could also paste the code of your sidebar into a https://wordpress.pastebin.com/ and post the link to it here.
    someone might then point the ‘safe’ areas out.

    some ads work fine if put into textwidgets.

    Thread Starter dstarver

    (@dstarver)

    There is an option for a text widget. But I didn’t know what that was.

    So, if I just paste the ad copy into the text widget, are you saying that should solve the problem?

    yes. You could paste it directly into your sidebar, if you do it outside the ‘if’ statement.

    There is default sidebar stuff inside an ‘IF’ statement that is only there when there are no widgets.

    So yes, a text widget will work, or pasting in your sidebar outside the IF

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