johnnorton

Yes, ours is standard, too, if I understand your meaning.
The category/date are still there but covered by featured image.
Very faintly seen in background.

Ken – this is happening on my Hueman site as well. But only in the Chrome browser. Works as usual in Firefox and Safari.

https://www.middleweb.com/

I’ve poked around my plug-ins… can’t figure it out. I do have two small Hueman sites with similar plug ins where it’s NOT happening. See for example:

https://www.stem-by-design.com/

Puzzled,
John Norton

Thanks, bdbrown! That’s a term I borrowed from you, found in a related answer somewhere here. You said you preferred avoiding alterations to a theme’s “basic structure.” I think those were your words.

This looks doable with a little self-instruction first. Can you suggest a ‘safe’ way to try this out, without permanently altering the site until I’m sure it works? I’ve used theme tester but I’m not sure you can test the theme you’re using while you’re using it.

John

One further comment – I love Hueman and appreciate axlmedia’s wonderful gift. I do hope that the time will come when he’ll consider creating some options for arranging the ordering of the main column in the mobile mode.

Needed to test the change and see if data indicated mobile traffic was showing up in the impressions count. It is! Resolved.

I do notice, now that I’ve looked again this morning, that the left sidebar displays below the post when I hold the phone vertically. But when I tilt it to horizontal, the green double arrows reappear, the main bar widens, and the left sidebar is no longer present below the post. I imagine this is the way the template creator intended. My wife, who spends more time with the 20-40 mobile age group thinks that most read content like this in vertical/portrait mode, so I should gain some ground in terms of ad impressions. I’m jotting down some baseline numbers to see.

Thank you so much for your help. I had no idea how supportive the WP community could be. Very encouraging in these times when corporate tech seems to be increasingly driving users into… cattle pens?

I didn’t know you had the ability to do a clean reinstall of the site theme. But it worked! It’s now displaying the left sidebar below the main bar content, on frontpage and any post page. That’s what I need it to do. I really appreciate the help!

I think the missing right sidebar is missing on purpose. My current setting in the theme options looks like this – which tells that sidebar to disappear in mobile mode, Does that make sense?

john

bdbrown… I found the Jetpack setting and it was activated. I deactivated it. Went to the Hueman theme options – the setting I sent screenshot of earlier. Then checked on my Android phone. It is serving differently but it still will not show the sidebars unless you click green double arrow, left or right.

Another quirk: Although the theme setting gives the choice of:
? Show sidebars
? Hide primary sidebar
? Hide secondary sidebar
? Hide both sidebars

When I choose “hide secondary sidebar” (the right one) and update, it doesn’t change anything. The option to still chose either side remains and you still have to click the double-green arrow to open either sidebar.

My expectation would be that if you hide the secondary sidebar, the primary sidebar will appear in some devices, at least in horizontal position. But that doesn’t seem to be the case.

Thoughts? What do you see on your iPhone?

bdbrown, you’re awesome! I will investigate. A teacher friend who runs his on impressive WP site helped us establish our original site (with a faulty theme, it turned out – hacked) and this replacement. He recommended the Jetpack. I haven’t explored it but I’ll check. I also see the “View Mobile Site” link in the footer. On my Android phone, when I click that, I get pretty much the same look served up.

More soon…

Hey – thanks so much for helping me with this. Yesterday afternoon, while prepping a new blog post, I noticed that the responsive layout was not functioning on my laptop. So I went back to Theme Options (Hueman) and turned on the responsive function again. That solved the problem.

I thought the setting was affecting only mobile – guess not. I’ve loaded a screenshot to show you how my settings are, and the info provided by theme.

The default layout for smartphone does not appear to show the left sidebar at all, not at the top or the bottom, vertical or horiz. This is with responsive .css cut on. I’m using a Motorola Android phone to look at it. We don’t currently have an iPhone. Don’t know if that’s a factor. This problem of the mobile phone setting was first raised to me by a tech at the ad server I use (Broadstreet). He said:

“…it’s more of a matter of the mobile template supporting widget areas. That’s the only way we (or anybody) could hook in. That said, your desktop site template is naturally responsive (ie, mobile friendly), so is it possible to disable the mobile template you have? You might be surprised to find how well it works (and displays ads) on mobile naturally.”

Thoughts? Be gentle, I’m a writer/editor not a coder/IT. If I need to engage professional help, I’m willing. But I really want the ad to be served when a page is viewed.

Thanks, bdbrown. I’ll do that. This started out related but kind of wandered.

If it matters or helps, the site is https://www.middleweb.com

I’m also a newbie – when it comes to CSS. I have a large Hueman themed site and a regular advertiser whose ads are served at the top in left sidebar. Fine for lap/desktops, even iPads in horizontal, but it usually collapses on smartphones. It would be great to keep the ad visible somehow… like Abaratando, I have high mobile traffic (40-50%) and I’m losing a lot of impressions. Any thoughts? I might have to hire someone to help but I don’t quite know how to go about that.

Despite the “resolved” mark on this thread, it doesn’t appear to be resolved. I have exactly the same questions. If there’s a guide now, please point to it.