Social Buttons and Ad Code

Hi,
Firstly great theme, love it!, i know very little about html coding and am finding wordpress and this theme very user friendly.

I have a couple of issues with my site im trying to work through maybe someone can help.

1) Social Buttons work in the TagDiv widget with FB/YT/Twitter when i enter the details there but for the top menu and bottom menu they dont work, i added the same info into the ‘Social Networks’ tab as i had for widget fields and it just take me to my website… eg for youtube i put channel/XXXXXX into the field, then when i click it goes to http://www.website.com/channel/XXXXXX instead of youtube. Am i making a mistake with the format?

2) Ad code, i made 2 types of ads in my adsense account, a 728 x 90 for the top banner and a ‘responsive’ ad for the sidebar (i figured these sound about right). I copied the code for the 728×90 one into the header adcode section and the responsive adcode into the sidebar section of themepanel>ads and saved but when i view my website there is no ads. Am i missing something here?.

3) Caching – is it better to disable W3 total cache while working on the site so i can see the changes reflected quickly live?, im finding in mozilla with ad blocker im having to use another browser to check what my updates look like and it behaves unpredictably (sometimes shows updates, sometimes not). When i did disable adblocker for my site page only all sorts of malware appeared on my computer subsequently i installed bitdefender and malwarebyte seems to have sorted it.

p.s im a newbie to all this stuff but trying hard and enjoying your theme and this learning curve alot 🙂

my website is http://tabletopminis.com (its still in early development)

• This topic was modified 11 years by Riyathe.

Hello, I don’t work here but can help with number 1 and maybe 2.

1. You need to put the full URL into the social fields for the buttons to show up in the footer or header. For example say your YouTube channel is ‘BestWebsiteEver’, then you will need to add: https://www.youtube.com/bestwebsiteever
The social widget sidebar plugin you only need to add the social media account name.

2. I am not sure on this but did you just create the ads? If so, it can take up to an hour for Google to start displaying them.

Hi Brain,
The social buttons are working now thanks.
The ads still aren’t showing and they have been active for a day now.

Hmm, not sure about it. It works for me. Are you sure that none of the options are turned off like view on desktop? Have you looked at mobile to see if it displays? Maybe take a screen shot of the ads panel.

thanks Alin, it appears i havent requested the one time application to adsense for ads other than youtube,

i dont have any traffic on my site though just now, is there any ‘minimum’ or such that adsense looks at for approval?

Cheers,
Riy