genesteinberg

I made it work.

With Widget Logic.

Would rather use yours since it’s current.

I used these commands in the above plugin:

!is_paged() and is_front_page()

What’s your equivalent?

Peace,
Gene

Your method sounds more complicated, however.

I would love to move to a more modern ad management plugin, other than Ad Rotate (unless they take me seriously about the problems and fix them). Does anyone know of one that would allow for easy transfer/import from the current plugin?

Peace,
Gene

I added that code to the ad text. It came from one of the threads at WordPress on the subject of restricting this content to the home page.

The ad plugin is Wp-Ad-Manager. It’s not being produced anymore, and I grant it may not be fully compatible with current WP versions, but with a tiny mod somewhere, it seems to be OK otherwise.

Unfortunately, changing the ad manager isn’t always easy. I tried AdRotate, which has an importer for other ad plugins. I spent a while updating a version of my theme to change the ad placement code. But it is buggy, uses a tremendous amount of queries (about 125 for my site), and, on one of my sites, caches the wrong ads in the wrong positions. The developer has shown no interest in recognizing or fixing the problem.

Peace,
Gene

I’m halfway there. I found the Widget Logic plugin, and it works for the sites that have the ads in a widget.

But I have another site where the ads are placed in fixed positions using an ad management plugin.

I found this code that’s supposed to restrict content to the home page, but it won’t work:

<?php if (is_home()) {
?>
Ad text and link
<?php
}
?>

Any other suggestions?

I have some catching up to do, but I will check it out if it helps.

Peace,
Gene

All right, a final solution. The problem appears to be exclusive to the WP 4.5 update, and the latest Apple Safari Technical Preview.

It works fine in other browsers.

So it may be something for Apple to fix, or for WordPress developers to consider in future testing of 4.5

Peace,
Gene

As I said, I already tested deactivating all plugins. Remember, too, that the various blogs have different themes, and somewhat different plugin configurations.

One of the blogs was using Twenty Fourteen. I changed it to Twenty Sixteen without any difference.

So it’s not the theme.

Peace,
Gene

I do have backups, and I did revert two blogs to WP 4.4.2. In both cases, the problem went away.

I tried your solution on a third blog, and it had no impact whatever. I fail to understand how it even relates to the problem.

Any other suggestions?

Peace,
Gene

You misread. I disabled your plugin because of the styling problems.

I cannot use it until that’s fixed.

It’s inconsistent depending on which site I try it on.

It worked on only one with minor glitches.

Peace,
Gene

OK, for the time being I’ve disabled it from theparacast.com (it’s at https://www.technightowl.com/radio/) until CSS is resolved.

Peace,
Gene

It’s not resolved.

I tried the CSS plugin on one site where it worked.

In theparacast.com it doesn’t. The form irenains unusually narrow.

On another site all form labels are centered so I am not using for now.

Peace,
Gene

Now I’m seeing the contact form narrower on one of my sites:

https://www.theparacast.com

I reverted the CSS to normal, so what’s up?

Peace,
Gene

There are people who have used WP-Ad-Manager or the original, Ad-minister, and would love to see an updated version of either to avoid having to engage in major redesigns to support a different ad management plugin.

Is here anyone out there who’d want to take this on and make this thing work?

Peace,
Gene

I expect some level of support, or to take problem reports into consideration in building new versions. If a developer wants to issue a plug-in as is, at your risk with no promise of support, they should say so. At least some developers are willing to accept donations for jobs well done, and that might provide a small amount of income.

Peace,
Gene

When someone takes the responsibility to develop and release a plugin of this sort, they ought to provide at least a modicum of support and answer legitimate questions.

Gene