Sorry, but I don’t remember the exact steps I took to resolve the issue. I believe I stopped using the individual mobile templates and used the responsive version.

In July 2021 after that issue occurred, I joined an ad provider. In August 2021 I changed to a different theme.

I’ll wait and see what happens when the next theme update comes up. At that time if it doesn’t change to show the new version available, I’ll submit a ticket.

Thanks.

I can’t say with 100% certainty that the issue did not occur while the site was still in staging, but I know that I was never reminded of another theme update until after I moved the site from staging to live.

I use MainWP to help me manage my websites. I found about the Newspaper theme update discrepancy when MainWP indicated that an update was available for the theme soon after I updated to version 11.

I do not use a child theme.

The theme update was done from the Dashboard > Updates page. The Newspaper plugins were updated from Dashboard > Newspaper > Updates > Plugins.

Dashboard > Newspaper > Updates indicates that my theme is up to date.

As the following screenshot shows, the Dashboard > Appearance > Themes pages also says there is an update available for Newspaper.

Thanks.

You should be able to find that settings page at:

WordPress Dashboard > Newspaper > Theme Panel

On my website, Newspaper is the second menu item on the left, just under the word Dashboard.

Wp-Rocket does have a setting for mobile themes. On or off, it makes no difference as to the problem of serving mobile ads all at the top of the article.

This is a live site so I deactivated only those plugins that did not affect the layout or functionality of the site. No difference at all.

I have successfully used WP-Rocket with this site for several months and have had zero issues that were caused by that plugin. However, I disabled it, cleared all caches – everywhere. No difference at all.

Again, I cleared all caches – browser, Wp-Rocket, CDN, etc..

There are a total of 4 different post templates involved in this issue, used according to category, etc.. Each post template has a mobile template. The issue is present for all of them.

Here is something that I’ve discovered today after going back through every template and double-checking everything.

TagDiv randomly displays a responsive version of the desktop template instead of the corresponding mobile template. Sometimes it does, most times it doesn’t and this is to the same device. When it does, the problem does not exist. Every ad displays where it should. BUT, if it serves the mobile template as it always should on phones, the ads in the post content do not display correctly.

In every instance and on every mobile post template, whether it is one ad or more, they will display one after the other at the top of the article before the first paragraph. This is true no matter where I tell TagDiv to display the ad. After the 15th paragraph? It will be at the top of the article? After the 8th paragraph? Same story. More than one ad will do the same, just stacked one above the other, but all before the first paragraph.

So, now there are two questions.

1) Why does TagDiv sometimes serve the responsive desktop template and other time it serves the mobile template – to the same device?

2) Why won’t the mobile template display ads where I tell them to go?

I will submit my info via email.

Thanks.

I have placed ads in the settings for locations where I want them. That is the point of this thread. I place the ads and they display as wanted on desktop, but on mobile they display two ads, one after the other, at the top of the article and not in the locations where they are set in TagDiv settings. Ads in the mobile template are not honoring the settings. This issue should nothing to do with the ad provider (Adsense). I did double-check to be sure that auto-ads aren’t turned on in Adsense. They are not.

As for some ads not appearing where placeholders are, that may be with the ad provider, but the issue that I detailed in the original post of this thread and in the previous paragraph are related to the TagDiv mobile template.

https://thetechiesenior.com

no browser ad blockers are installed

Sorry, I forgot to mention that the problem exists across Chrome, Firefox, and Safari browsers.

I said in my reply to Calin above that his advice had fixed my problem. But I’ve now discovered that the same solution does not work with the mobile version of the same category 1 template.

I made certain that the box that hides the row with pagination is not ticked.

I set the post loop to limit post number to six.

If I set pagination type to “Normal numbered,” I have the same problem that I detailed in my original post on any page after page one. Pages 2 and above are hidden. On the normal full page template with the same exact settings, pagination works fine.

I set pagination type on the mobile template to infinite or load more, etc., everything works fine. But numbered pagination is hiding pages after page 1, even with the hide row on pagination unchecked.

Is there something different about the mobile version that normal numbered pagination will not work?

Calin,

That solved the problem. Categories paginate correctly now. Thank you.

Could you clarify what would be the usefulness of that setting to hide the row on pagination? I can’t imagine any reason to hide it if one needs pagination to be active. Why have pagination if the row is hidden?