neiljf

Hi Joachim

It’s working!

Thank you very much!

I really appreciate the time and effort you’ve taken for me.

Best wishes,

Neil

• This reply was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by neiljf.

Thanks Joachim. Yes, I was missing that part of the code.

I tried again, but I’m getting a different error when inserting into that full code into either Single Post or Theme Header now.

The live site template breaks and the live site shows the error “There has been a critical error on this website.”

You can see a screenshot of how it looked on the site here: https://www.4thway.co.uk/35681-2/

Also on that page, you see an example of where I tried to paste it into the Single Post, with a couple of orange crosses showing alternative places tried.

If you still have any patience left – or anyone else – please share your thoughts!

Thank you very much once again,

Neil

Hi Joachim

Thanks for your help. I found it where you said it would be. But I still can’t get the ad to show.

I published my ad, selected manual placement, and got a message that the ad was now visible in the front end.

In WordPress > Advanced Ads > Placements, I clicked on Show Usage next to the manual placement and copied the code, which is:

if( function_exists(‘the_ad_placement’) ) { the_ad_placement(‘above-title’); }

I then pasted this beneath the top line in my Single Post (single.php) file. The top line was a php get header line. When I checked the website, instead of seeing the ad, I could see the code showing between the header and the page title.

So I then moved the code to beneath the next row in Single Post and tried again. The same issue occurred.

I kept trying this, moving the code down one line at a time until I reached the h1 get title row. Since I want the ad to appear above that, I didn’t try pasting it beneath that row.

I then tried pasting it into the Theme Header (header.php) file instead. This time, I started at the bottom. I tried every row up to the breadcrumbs, which should appear above the ad.

In each attempt, the code showed on my website instead of the ad.

Have you – or has anyone – got any suggestions where I might be going wrong?

Thanks very much,

Neil

• This reply was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by neiljf.

Hi Joachim

There’s no usage button. The section Usage has a “Template (PHP)” field and I copied the entire code from there. I’ve double-checked and I haven’t accidentally clipped the code short.

Am I looking in the wrong place? I’m in WordPress > edit Ad, and looking at the Usage section…

I’ve done a screenshot of what I see and put it on this web page: https://www.4thway.co.uk/35681-2/

Thanks a lot for that, Joachim!

You wrote that my PHP code looks wrong, so I presume I’m copying the wrong code.

I got that code by clicking on the ad to edit it. There’s a “Usage” section, which contains the PHP code there.

Am I looking in the wrong place?

When you say “the PHP must look like this”, do you mean literally exactly as you did it, or am I supposed to replace part of that with e.g. the ad’s code (“35670”)? If so, can you show me exactly how to replace it?

Thanks again,

Neil

Are you doing anything about this problem? For me it’s even worse. That message “Are you enjoying using Pretty Links?” shows all the time and there’s nothing I can do about it. Clicking either Yes or No does nothing. Clicking the X button makes it disappear only until I do something like refresh a page in my WordPress CMS or go to another page in it. It’s driving me crazy, using up key real estate at the top there in a big fat bar all the time.

Thanks.

1) The settings are still as they should be.

2) I originally only checked my MailChimp list. It was there that I saw they had already been unsubscribed.

But that made me realise you must also be storing email addresses. So I signed in on your website. And you do of course. The email accounts were still showing in your list. So I deleted it. Then I tried resubscribing and it works again now.

So problem solved.

Thanks

Yes, that’s right. But I’ve been using MailChimp for some time with no problems so I assumed it was a mailmunch problem.

I hope I’m not doing you an injustice!

You mean I spammed myself ??

Thanks a lot!