Problems with reponsive Adsense Ads

Hi there,

So I tried to use the Adsense ads, I followed the documentation, but when I try to open my website on my iPhone, it looks like this: http://puu.sh/4OWzB.jpg

So there is definitely something wrong, I used the 320×50 ad for mobile and 728×90 for everything else.

Any suggestions?

Hi,
so far my experience is you can’t use Google’s NEW “responsive” ads unless you also add their custom CSS for the viewport to your child theme CSS (tricky).

Also, I found you can’t have ONE responsive ad unit for the top and sidebar.

So, for my setup I had to follow the 1.4 docs which show adding the old style two or three sizes for a topbar spot, and two sizes (300×250 and 250×250) for a sidebar spot.

The static ads don’t resize, a javascript peek is simply looking at the viewport depending on the starting screen size then feeding in the proper code to fit that space (e.g., 250×250 for ipad retina portrait).

In theory, to use full responsive adsense units you’d have to use the responsive ads section, paste in the complete code per space, then edit the CSS in your child theme to add Google’s viewport CSS for the class ID being used for their “new” format responsive ad unit.

I did put in a suggestion for tagdiv to possibly figure out how to make a new admin tab for the NEW (e.g., Sept./Oct. 2013) beta “responsive” unit ads from Google.

In theory, they may end up serving responsive units in place of the specified sizes anyway, at some point (meaning Google will do this dynamically …).

Hope that helped…. little bit of a trial and error to get proper sizes via the 1.4 methodology with the theme.

TOP BAR:
1) wider ad unit (728×60)
2) smaller ad unit

RIGHT BAR
1) 300×250
2) 250×250

HINT: go look at their live demo and resize browser to see the sizes they are using specifically since the actual sizes are not specified in the admin panel only the viewport sizes.

Christopher

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your reply. I’ll try your suggestion later on. I tried the responsive ad, but as you said, didn’t work properly.

I think I’ll have to live without mobile ads for a while and have done with it.