andrewso

I’m new to CSS as you can tell, your solution worked like a charm, thanks.

Just a question, what’s the purpose of this line?

body .adsense {display: none; }

I understand the second it means use the adsense class only on a page that has body id=”single-page” is that right?

Thanks for the solution.

Moshu, if I did it that way then I can’t control where the ad is placed in my post. Editing the single.php file would only allow my to place it between the title and the content. I can’t control where it goes in the content.

I just want the main page to ignore a div tag that shows up in the post.

Any ideas on how I can get the main page to ignore that <div>? Thanks!

Thanks moshu, do you use adsense deluxe? Can you load up my page in IE and see what’s happening? I’m stumped. I’ve been writing my blog for 2 years and never had an issue like this with such a widely used plugin.

I couldn’t find this using the search by looking up adsense deluxe. Any help? I’ve activated Adsense Deluxe so the problem is now viewable on the main page in IE.

Hi David,

I think your hack would work, but I lack the php skill to implement it.
I just found a small problem with my earlier approach trying to use quickphp with the quickinc hack u posted. I’m using quickphp on a single static page and it works fine. If I try to run more than 1 instance it wont work so I can’t use it to insert html files for ads around my blog. I’m back to square one and manually inserting code.

Hi David,

I think I will go with the QuickPHP include method. I’ve tried the method with phpadsnew and I can eliminate competative ads from showing up but then I can’t use the rotate function so the system really is overkill. I guess the perfect system would allow you to manage the ads within WP and then let you group, rotate and manage a small number of ads. I’m still suprised that a system that seems as mature as phpadsnew can’t rotate and exclude ads based on a keyword group. It looks like phpadsnew can manage and rotate ads’s in 1 location but not multiple places, thats the real root of the problem. I actually created a zone called Sidebar and another called Header, assigned keywords to 2 ads inside each zone and the probablilty was set by default to 50/50.

I asked this in the phpadsnew forum to one of the moderators who wrote a quick start guide,

I got PAN working right off the bat after reading. Just one question. How do I restrict ads from competing advertisers from displaying at the same time? I created two campaigns with two zones, each with 2 ads, one yahoo, one google. Placing the php code on the site allows the ads to rotate, but the problem is Yahoo and Google compete, so I am not supposed to place the ads side by side.

Can you please help clarify how to do this in the Quick Start?

Here was his response,

This is a problem with competing ads that PAN does not have a fix for. Therefore, those google and yahoo ads have the chance to show up on the same page at the same time. We run both on our site and they do show up on the same page sometimes twice and sometimes three times.

I don’t want to take the chance violating the Terms of Service between Google and Yahoo so I didn’t continue to use the system.

I’ve been looking for a system or WP plugin that would allow me to group and rotate, this way I could place the php code in my WP php files or in my CG-Inbetween and not have to think about it for a while. Thanks for all the advice.

Andy

Clarke, For those of us with the same color background as the icons in Socialble, is there a way to tweak a border color or some kind of CSS effect in the admin panel? That would rock, right now the del.icio.us icon for example has a white box on the top left and my background is white so they blend together.

Thanks,

Andy

Hi Cal,

Sorry for the post again, I would really like to start using the plugin you made. My blog is getting some positive press and it’s good to have social bookmarking functionality. Thanks for reading.

Andy

Hmm that sounds like a solution…except I don’t know any PHP. I think I understand how you proposed the solution though. The problem I see is that each ad placement has a different size. If I create a keyword based group called google and another called yahoo, use a random pick for an entire group, that solves the issue of picking one ad group over the other, but how do I make sure the correct size ad gets placed in the sidebar for instance or the header?

I think by viewing other peoples blogs they generally rotate between a set of ads from different publishers with different colors and sizes. Each time I switch an ad, I goto either Google or Yahoo and generate new code, for a different color or size, and paste it in the WP php file I want the ad to appear in.

I have an idea to give bloggers finite control over ad placement and grouping that also saves time, an admin page in WP that could save the HTML code from an advertiser with a nickname. Google HTML code for example could be saved as Adsense_Sidebar. I could save an alternate color one as Adsense_Sidebar2. I could save a Yahoo one as YPN_Sidebar. I could save a header version as YPN_Header. Then some kind of php plugin with a reference to the nickname to place the code in my blog.

Something like:
<?php CG-QuickAds (“Adsense_Sidebar”); ?>
?? Wishful thinking ??

I have about 12 ads I rotate among, 3 google, 3 yahoo with 2 color variations. I use the same code everytime, but when I want to change ads, each time I have to generate new code and paste it from the advertiser to WP.

Thanks,

Andy

Hi David,

I asked on the phpadsnew forum and the moderator responded with a reply that phpadsnew can’t restrict the ads from appearing at the same time. I tried using a few javascripts, I am guessing that’s what you mean by random generator, that were designed to switch 2 ads with a 50/50 probablility. The challenge is to load the main page you have to load a few php files, so placing the javascript on a few different php files still generates yahoo and google ads appearing at the same time, on the same pageload. I haven’t found a simple way to cycle a group of ads other than changing them manually. I was hoping phpadsnew could do it, but even if it could, I agree, it really is overkill.

Andy

It worked like a charm. Thank you David ?? Now if you could help invent an ad switching plugin that would be great. I’ve tried javascripts and phpadsnew an ad serving platform and while both will rotate ads, niether will allow you to show ads without conflicting with each other. I would guess that the majority of blog owners have 1-3 advertising programs running with ads in the loop and in the header.php, index.php etc. The problem is displaying ads from different advertisers violates the terms of service. Changing the ads one by one is a tedious process.

It would be a boon to have a plugin like this. Thank you for the fix again ??

Hello Cal,

I’m getting the following error in the options section of the WP admin panel.

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/rawgreed/public_html/wp-content/plugins/blogbling/wp-notable.php on line 205

In addition on the main page I am getting:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/rawgreed/public_html/wp-content/plugins/blogbling/wp-notable.php on line 99

I’m using WP 1.5.

My options are set to

Icons per Row: 14
Image Path: /wpcontent/plugins/blogbling/images/
Spacer String: Non-Breaking Space
Days Between Version Check: 2

I would really like to use this on my blog https://www.rawgreed.com

Thanks,

Andy

I just got it to work. You should also change the line in sidebar.php from <?php if (is_home()) { ?> to <?php if (is_home() || is_page()) { ?> That should make the sidebar show up in all pages.

I have the same problem, I added <?php get_sidebar(); ?> and changed the <div id=”container”<?php if (is_page() && !is_page(“archives”)) echo ” class=\”singlecol\””; ?>> to <div id=”container”>

Still not working, any ideas?

Thanks,

Andy