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Final entry: I figured out the issue. It was actually one of confusion. In WPTouch, right under the article name there’s a large space. (Is there any way to get rid of that?) I thought this was where the ad was supposed to show up. Instead, it shows up at the very bottom of the article, below the comments.
Thanks for your assistance!
I went ahead and switched the ad unit to 320×50. I also set up a test unit on the non-mobile site. The ad appears on the non-mobile version of the site, but does not appear in the WPTouch version of the site.
Recommendations?
Note that to remedy this, as before, I once again uninstalled the WPTouch plugin using the WordPress Plugin management page. While the WPTouch folder is no longer located in [websiteroot]/wp-content/plugins (after the deletion, which is to be expected), I’m thinking there’s a configuration file hiding somewhere that may have some corruption issues. Is there a file somewhere else that stores settings information? I ask because previously, after uninstalling and re-installing the plugin, the previous settings remained.
EDIT: I did a bit of digging and found some extra file locations, including one dealing with caching. I deactivated caching and deleted the files in those locations after uninstalling WPTouch. I then reinstalled WPTouch with caching off. My settings were still in place, and the problem persisted.
Once again, thank you for any assistance.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can’t Approve Comments! Please Help!Using CentOS, but checked PHP version. It was still set to 4. Thanks!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can’t Approve Comments! Please Help!I’ll go ahead and add my voice to this. Same issues as above (no plugin involved, though). Can’t approve comments. Thoughts? Anyone?
Alright, I figured out one piece of the puzzle: The “comments_popup_link” for the first snippet of code is reading the comments status of the stuff in the main loop. There, only one article is displayed, of the same category (category 4) as the code snippet. The second code snippet filters OUT category 4, so for it that’s neither here nor there.
My question: is “comments_popup_link” dependent on the main loop to gather its information? Is there another call I could make that would give me the total number of comments?
Thanks in advance.
Actually, i found out why comments_popup_link doesn’t work on pages here. Still Wondering about the first page, though.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Different Front Page Design to Second PageJust used this code to do something similar. Works beautifully.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Problem with the_exerptIt works, thank you! I’d been looking for the answer to this for days.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Is simple better?The second one (http://jackosh.com/?wptheme=jackosh.com2) is better. I’ve always prefered to have a descernable banner at the top. Not having it is like turning in a paper in school without the name or date at the upper right (or left) hand corner.
Of course, if you look at my site (http://www.gnorb.net) you’ll see I steer more towards the “every page should be an event” line of thought, brought about mostly because of my jobs and the fact that most people who come to my site stay for at most 2 pages. I might as well give them their time’s worth while they’re there.
(I use a modified version of TypoXP, by the way, to which I’ve added a banner and changed the colors + sidebar content.)
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Cool New WordPress Themealexeyenko: Very nice theme. Extra clean. Not a big fan of green, but you pull it off quite well. Good shade. I’m having the same problem with the sidebar being pushed down, at least within posts and the archives. Front page is fine.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: How to eliminate sidebar, intentionally?Remove the following line of code from all pages:
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>Personally, I would just comment it out instead of outright deleting it — just in case.
//Edit: As for your other request, instead of removing the sidebar, how about just editing the CSS so that it appears where/how you want it to?
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Best WordPress Themes Part Two, Gallery !piotr82: Any chance of you releasing that rather sweet looking theme you have going on Coxis right now? That said, good gallery.
By the way, DesignPastor, I think you mean “Good GNORB” not JORB. Simple mistake. Happens all the time. Though why you’d be saying “Good GNORB” is beyond me… ;-P
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: New Theme : TypoXPExtremely nice and simple theme.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Resolution, lock it in at 1024×768Actually I’m with xoxo on this one: I’m just plain lazy, know only JEXHTML (JE=Just Enough) and don’t know enough CSS to pull that one from the top of my head. (Thanks for the CSS Viper007Bond.)
As for forcing widths, while it may just be a matter of preference, it may well also be a matter of necessity. If your writing style is short-and-sweet then a narrower theme will make it seem like you have more content. Nothing I hate more than to write a tiny, sidenote-type post then have it stretched over 1600 px. *ugh* Makes me wanna puke when I see that, and most writters react to it by wanting to fluff their articles with useless material, thereby degrading the reading experience, just so it doesn’t look like total crap.
It may also be necessary in cases where you want to have mutiple pages per post, but only want up to a certain length. Guessing that someone’s going to look at your site at “1024×768” is hardly the same as forcing them into it. At least when you force them into it, it’s not as bad, even if you do tick off the 800×600 and “small floating browser window” crowd. (Besides 1024 = average anyway)
Here’s a good example: You lead off all your articles with a picture wrapped by text, except this time you only write a short paragraph. You place the picture there as normal and think, “this looks just fine in my screen 1024×768 screen through my Firefox on Linux browser.” Then you go to your friend’s house which runs his resolution at 1400 x 1050, uses Opera and runs Window. When you look at the site you say “Oh no! now that picture pushes all the text in the next article down! This looks like crud now!”
I’ve worked as a writer for a number of websites and we’ve gone through entire redesigns in good part for that very reason. On the downside, they tend to alienate people. (Can you imagine my friend, running his resolution at 1400×1050, being subjected to a forced resolution of 800-width? Talk about wasted real estate!) Generally, however, controlled-width themes are much easier to control, aesthetically speaking.
*chink chink chink* My $0.03 (adjusted for inflation)
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Resolution, lock it in at 1024×768After the BODY tag:
<table width=”1008″>
<tr><td>CONTENT…..
</td></tr></table>
Done 😀