Title: BIG fail!
Last modified: September 2, 2016

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# BIG fail!

 *  [gandurisinuante](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gandurisinuante/)
 * (@gandurisinuante)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/big-fail/)
 * This little plugin almost crashed my entire site, so consider the 1 star as an
   absolute 0!

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 *  Plugin Author [matchalabs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matchalabs/)
 * (@matchalabs)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/big-fail/#post-7748941)
 * ML Adverts is fairly basic – behind the scenes it runs a standard WP_Query.
 * Mind if I ask how it almost crashed your entire site so I can track down what
   the issue might be?
 *  Thread Starter [gandurisinuante](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gandurisinuante/)
 * (@gandurisinuante)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/big-fail/#post-7748942)
 * Well, first of all I really appreciate that you’re actually taking some interest
   in what users say.
 * The thing is like this: I installed the plugin, then I tried making a test with
   it, for a banner in the header area. Didn’t work, tried another area, didn’t 
   work. So I just deactivated the plugin and when I went to my homepage voila, 
   no articles at all. I could only access them individually but nothing appeared
   on the homepage.
 * So I deleted the whole thing. No change. Then I thought it might had something
   to do with another plugin called Simply Exclude that I’ve been using on my blog
   for a long time. Because when I created the first advert, I had to check some
   things on Simply Exclude as well.
 * I went in debug mode, found the error, deactivated the Simply Exclude plugin 
   and my site is back to normal. But the strange thing is that there was nothing
   wrong with the Simply Exclude plugin until I installed Ml Adverts.
 * So this is the entire novel :)) Anyway, the BIG Fail is a subjective opinion 
   and I don’t doubt that your plugin worked for other users.
 *  Plugin Author [matchalabs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matchalabs/)
 * (@matchalabs)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/big-fail/#post-7748943)
 * Hi gandurisinuante,
 * ML Adverts doesn’t do anything too magical, it is basically a nice interface 
   to a standard custom post type! I suspect the issue lies somewhere with Simply
   exclude, particularly the ‘Because when I created the first advert, I had to 
   check some things on Simply Exclude as well.’ bit.
 * I will install Simple Exclude myself and see if I can replicate the issue.
 * Thanks for getting back to me, if you need a hand setting up ML Adverts then 
   I’d be happy to help – just drop a note in the support forum.
 * Regards,
    Tom.
 *  [ahacommunications](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahacommunications/)
 * (@ahacommunications)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/big-fail/#post-7748972)
 * I have a problem with ML Adverts on my website, that I cannot seem to get an 
   answer on how to fix. It is probably really simple too!!
 * My site is [http://www.ahacommunications.ca/titans2](http://www.ahacommunications.ca/titans2)
 * I want the 2 adverts at the top to be side by side rather than stacked on top
   of one another.
 *  Plugin Author [matchalabs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matchalabs/)
 * (@matchalabs)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/big-fail/#post-7748973)
 * Please try adding this to your themes style.css file:
 * ul.ml-adverts-top-of-site li
    { display: inline; }
 * Regards
    Tom
 *  [ahacommunications](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahacommunications/)
 * (@ahacommunications)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/big-fail/#post-7748974)
 * AWESOME!!!! You did it!!
    Thank you so much!!!
 *  [ahacommunications](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahacommunications/)
 * (@ahacommunications)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/big-fail/#post-7748975)
 * I am still learning a lot here, so if you can quickly tell me how to add some
   space (padding?) at the top above the ads, that would be super!!

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