jamminjames

Same weird formatting on a desktop.

• This reply was modified 5 months, 1 week ago by jamminjames.

I’m still getting the same behavior after updating to 3.4.4. Flushed website and browser caches.

• This reply was modified 5 months, 1 week ago by jamminjames.

I added screenshots for the settings pages.

Okay, the page (just an example, it’s affecting all pages) is: https://www.ecosacramento.net/about-us/

A screenshot and html file are here.

Good luck!

The website is using the Vantage theme which uses SiteOrigin. I can’t leave the website in that state, but I could activate the plugin temporarily and copy the html source code for you, if you like. Otherwise, we’d have to set a short amount of time for you to inspect it while the plugin is activated, preferably after midnight PST.

Hold the phone! The update is causing a major problem. For some reason, on a desktop, all the pages look like they’re formatted for a phone. Will report on a new thread.

• This reply was modified 5 months, 1 week ago by jamminjames.

Thanks, Ralf!

Yes, same circumstance for me — happened when I set post ID to be excluded. Did you make a change to the file, and if so, what, exactly? It seems the plugin maker isn’t monitoring this forum, and they haven’t updated the plugin in 10 months.

I’ve updated, and it still does the same thing. If “Show the Starbox with Top Star theme?in the global feed of your blog?(eg. “/blog” page) under each title of every post” is set to “Yes”, the excerpts do not display. Tried again after flushing caches, same result.

For now, we’ll leave that set to “No”.

We keep the plugins up to date, we’re using the latest Starbox, 3.5.1, and the latest WordPress, 6.5.3.

Here’s a screenshot of the settings page for Starbox.

I forgot to mention that we tried it with all other plugins deactivated, so it’s definitely something to do with Starbox.

UPDATE: I tried turning off “Show the Starbox with Top Star theme?in the global feed of your blog under each title of every post” and it fixed the problem.

• This reply was modified 5 months, 2 weeks ago by jamminjames.

You are correct, it is the Starbox plugin, which displays a custom author box under posts. I have asked them to look into it. Thanks!

Well, it’s not showing in Firefox either, and I have no ad blockers on. I’m sure it has to do with Google’s script, as you say, but would love to find a workaround, as they are not very responsive support-wise. I could try a forum, I guess.

Btw, both script parts of their ad code are repeated in every ad, at the start and the end. So I put the top part in the header and the bottom part in the footer. Do you think that should work, assuming this other problem is ironed out?

Update: I noticed in the Google inspect that “user agent stylesheet”, which is part of the Google browser, has this setting:
script {
display: none;
}

So, I created a stylesheet addition to override it, like:

.a-90 script {
display: inline !important;
}

…which worked, however, that extra text from the Google script shows again: adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}

So, apparently, the browser is intentionally not showing that bit, which is a script appended to the first part of the code (see the .js file I gave you a link to). But it is also apparently needed to display the ad. So, therein lies the conflict. I don’t know how it can be resolved, do you?

And thanks for the optimization tip, I’ll look into that.

• This reply was modified 5 months, 3 weeks ago by jamminjames.

Okay, here you go, thanks!

Also, if you want to inspect our page, it’s here: https://www.humortimes.com/

The ad is supposed to display above the “Fun Stuff” widget in the right column. I don’t see anything blocking it when I try inspecting it using Google Developer Tools.

Funny thing is, the ad shows perfectly in the Preview in AdRotate.

• This reply was modified 5 months, 3 weeks ago by jamminjames.
• This reply was modified 5 months, 3 weeks ago by jamminjames.

This is a second attempt. Oh, well. Unfortunately, it’s notoriously hard to get any help from Google, but I am trying.