The Author Jack Foreigner

Actually, I do fiddle with my WordPress templates — child theme templates, that is — but a CSS option would be much more preferable, I think.

I’m gonna have fun this weekend trying out the various methods you’ve so graciously provided…I’m truly grateful: please check your e-mail…. 😉

P.P.S.

Sorry, forgot to mark this thread “resolved”…thanks again!!!

OMG, John…sometimes I really wish you weren’t so quick with the support — so that I can be forced to think things through a little more myself!! 😉

Yes yes yes OF COURSE just add a <div> and style it…I feel like the Homer Simpson of WordPress.org!!! :-\

Thanks, that really works…and thanks especially for the updates with more, erm, uh, “hooks” or whatever the CSS term is (selectors??)…now maybe you can answer a couple of VCR-programming questions I happen to have, too…. 😉

Seriously, thanks a billion. I’m curious which option will prove best for my needs — but it’s nice to know I’ve got options!

Hi, John,

Thanks so much for taking the time to respond — and in such detail, too!

The “concept code” (“code mockup” or whatever it’s called) you provided is exactly what I had in mind. In particular,

foreach( $category_ids_to_skip as $category_id ) {
if( in_category( $category_id ) ) {
// Uh oh! We have a match. One of the IDs
// specified matches this posts’ categories. Do
// whatever we are supposed to do when category
// matches.

caught my attention…now I really do I know better, but I’m gonna ask anyway, mostly out of sheer curiosity: what would the PHP be for “Uh oh! We have a match. One of the IDs specified matches this post’s categories. Do NOT output Ad Blocker Detected shortcode“???

Now, John, I’ve been trying to make this thread as general as possible to possibly be of some benefit to others as well (and kudos for taking the initiative to respond at length for the reference of posterity!) but I think I’ll have to get “personal” here so that the context of my request makes better sense, as it sounds pretty ridiculous that I want to disable your plugin without actually disabling it!

(The following is actually not all that important but provided in case it matters somehow.)

See, the thing is, for certain Posts, I don’t want a particular ad unit showing (the upper left-hand corner one, to be exact). So I’ve got CSS to target it for specific Post Categories and specific Post IDs.

But here’s the tricky thing: targeting .ABD_display works when there’s no ad-blocker enabled (so that I can suppress display of that particular upper left-hand corner ad unit), but when an ad-blocker is enabled, targeting .ABD_display_adblocker makes all ads disappear!

Hence why I thought to abandon CSS and turn to PHP….

I guess what I’m really asking (thank you for your patience; not as articulate when it comes to coding) is: what CSS selectors (or whatever they’re called) does Ad-Blocking Detector offer??

So far I can identify a few, like .first, .ABD_display, and #aswift_0_expand, but I need more to achieve one last thing….

Basically, something like

function ToBeOrNotToBe() {
if category-id = array (a, b, c)
then No-Ad-Blocking-Detector-Please
else echo do_shortcode(‘[adblockingdetector id=”14″]’);
}

THANKS!!!

Thanks, whatwhatwhat, for the tip…I’m using the “Advanced Ads” and “Ad Blocking Detector” plugins quite satisfactorily!