The Author Jack Foreigner

Would someone please answer this question??

It’s very annoying that basic functionality is not documented…the plugin doesn’t seem to be saving multiple dialogs — I seem able to use only one at a time, even though under “General Configuration” I’ve set “Number of Modal Dialogs” to “2”….

Oh, okay…not sure what auto injections are and not sure what ad placements are but if no settings are changed then I’m not as wary of updating!

3) Yep, that’s what I’d meant.

Yes, I saw the WP system prompt about your plugin…a little afraid to update right now ’cause of the reorganization you made (if I understand your Changelog notes correctly) with the Ads, Ad Groups, and Ad Placements…. ??

Aaaaagggrrhhh — BLUEHOST!!!!!

I don’t know how it’s so highly regarded in the WP community, allegedly…but they’re down a good eighth of the time it seems and I guess this whitespace issue is just related to their typically slow servers.

Wouldn’t surprise me in the least! I thought their CloudFlare CDN was suppose to improve things….

Okay, thanks very much for the confirm. ??

Beautiful. Simply beautiful.

Thanks, John — this is a great little bit of code I’m going to try out with other plugins, too, whenever I need similarly fine-grained control over the circumstances of their display!! I daresay you’ve helped many, many people beyond myself.

Ah, well, can’t replicate now that Google seems to have just as mysteriously de-indexed that hidden login page…thanks for the suggestion, thought!

Yes, please, Stefan, much appreciated!! ??

1) Oh, surely there are better methods, depending on the objective…but if the goal is to quickly get to one’s desired selection and we’re gonna use a drop-down menu, I for one find it cumbersome to first scroll through all my Ads if I want an Ad Group — whereas, again, Ad Groups will surely almost always be outnumbered by individual Ads so it would be quicker if nothing else scrolling through them. Just a thought!

2) <grin />

3) I’m still cobbling together my overall advertising strategy, such as it is, but already I can say that most Advanced Ads Ad Groups have a membership in the double digits. But actually, I have to correct myself here: it seems like your plugin automatically culls the display list to the last eight units added!

Funny, my theme-maker told me it’s a Jetpack Comments issue! ??

Well, it only happens sometimes — “quite often,” as I’d said, but still not always — so most any blog post on my site would do, if you reload it enough anyway: check out https://jack-foreigner.com/chinese-century-novels for example…scroll to the bottom where it says “Have Your Say!” and see if there ain’t a big ol’ block o’ whitespace there (reload if need be)….

I do notice, FWIW, that sometimes slow page-loading causes the whole expanded Jetpack Comments form to be displayed. Perhaps the whitespace is related to this somehow?

And, while we’re at it: any way to change the default “Enter your comment here…” textfield value??

Oh, also, just for possible future reference, how could individual pages be targeted?

if( in_page( $page_id ) ) {

?

Hey John,

Just an update on things: I’m abandoning this CSS approach in favor of the PHP-based one. Just less things to account for.

Thanks again, as always, for your time and help!

Hello Again, John,

This method turns out to work better than the CSS-based one (not too surprisingly, in a way, as what I’m really trying to do here is to control behavior, not layout as such) over on the other thread…just one thing more now: what’s the PHP for the equivalent of your

if( in_category( $category_id ) ) {

…only for individual Post IDs??

I’d like to also target posts as well as post categories. (Long story. ;-))

It couldn’t be as simple as

if( in_post( $post_id ) ) {

— could it???

Hiya, John,

First off, thanks for taking a trip down memory lane with me here — i.e., revisiting this formerly resolved thread.

Yes, well, I do tinker with browsers’ “Inspect Element” features but that’s really the extent of my capabilities, ambitious as I am.

Oh, no performance plugins, no caching or minification or anything. But I’m on Bluehost’s CloudFlare…some kinda DNN thingy….

Anyway, I’ll see what I can figure out.

Thanks, John…

I definitely should have specified that I’d meant a search engine on each plugin’s support forum, devoted to search that plugin’s topics only…as it is, the general catch-all engine pulls up a lot of irrelevant stuff.

Yes, that’s speaking to the quality of the search engine and not to the existence of one. I’m marking this thread as “resolved” because it is, technically — but if any core developers should happen by I would very much like to propose search engines that are somehow tuned specifically to each individual plugin’s support forums!

Okay…just an FYI, FWIW: the CSS

<div id=”upper-left-abd-adblocker”>
content
</div>

and

.postid-2702 #upper-left-abd-adblocker { display: none !important; }

doesn’t work. Sounds like it should but just doesn’t: the <div> tags are completely ignored! And yes I checked for orthographical errors.

As for the second method, using the additional selectors provided by the latest plugin update, well…it doesn’t work either!!

I don’t get it. Both methods appear totally logical. But they’re totally ignored by the browser! And yeah, I checked across different computers and even a Samsung tablet.

Sorry, but now I’m really intrigued and so am opening this thread up again…maybe it’s just me, just my site or the theme I’m using???