Ok that sounds about right – I do well from sold ads so not the end of the world but it is revenue lost – it does disturb readers though on smartphones – which is 80% so just not worth the potential annoyance

Thanks for this

Just a chime in on this one – AdSense has always been unusable for me – Using AdRotate OR as responsive code in Theme Panel – is never has worked so I now don’t use it at all – it jumps about and ads are delivered in different dimensions whatever I do- whether I specify a size in Panel or not – nothing fixes it – not a complaint perhaps it’s something else in my setup – just noting that never had much success with it. Inline Adsense works best and is responsive – but then delivers an unresponsive square ad next – this spoils reader experience

Pat

We use: Accelerated Mobile Pages by Ahmed Khaludi

Auttomatics AMP plugin

Yoast Glue

The set up works perfectly on our setup and has done for months now.

This selection allows for customisation too

Pat

Edward

‘Shortcodes Ultimate’ plugin (search for it) does this very well

I’ve used it with Newspaper with no problems – but I don’t use it now

You have to buy the additional shortcodes pack to get it.

Hope this helps

Pat

Ah no worries – I used !important and it works now

h2 {
color: gray!important;
}

ConvertPlug – not free though

Thanks I see that’s great

Best wishes

Hi Bogdan

But with my own ads that I’ve sold – a 728 x 90 fits perfectly well – that’s the thing, so why doesn’t a GA 728 x 90

My own are in a VC ad box on home page and within posts

Yes I have this same issue – Adsense isn’t on site now because of this – happy not to use Adsense but following topic to see if there is an answer –

Tried asynchronous and other Adsense code

It affects ads implemented using a VC block

HELLO! And they work in post TITLE – on home page and on post view – I never knew that WP supported emoji in post title 🙂

Again good for seasonal posts in a category!

Cool!

Amazing emoji discovery

Yes thanks Bogdan that’s great

Christmas section idea

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Or – we use ‘Featured’ as a TAG – the ONLY tag we use – that way it can still be categorised “News’ ‘Sport’ ‘Lifestyle’ etc etc as well as its tag (Featured) and then it will ‘fall’ into that CATEGORY when it falls OUT of your slider 🙂 – useful if you’re publishing lots of posts per day – we publish 15-20 and so it’s a great way of selecting ‘Featured’ posts that are still available on their relevant Category Pages – and the home page category ‘tab’

Just a thought…

Pat

Here is how we use it – you can select how many words before it’s triggered, and how many times it appears (max 3 as seen here) and whether it will tag one on the end if it’s a short post – can’t run on tags/cats – but we just designate posts must be one day old (more can embarrass a news site!) PRO gives all sorts of style options, with live preview – doesn’t slow site

http://wbwi.re/2crO6dv

Have you tried this – it works with the theme and it’s awesome – and if you want it to look prettier get PRO

Inline related posts plugin

Pat

Also just to add – I’ve been using the Automattic plugin with Yoast Glue, Yoast SEO and there is also Custom (AMP) Accelerated Mobile Pages plugin by lamvt – this adds ‘related posts'(although at random dates) and it adds your mobile menu -they all work great with the theme – I don’t use any of my ads at all – why? because the AMP pages show up in search results (currently only news carousel though this will change soon) – and therefore they’re probably new visitors who will view the main site at some point, page views increase anyway, brand awareness increases, and the big regional competition aren’t using AMP yet because they’re scared – so I actually look better then many regional brands – the theme works perfectly with this set up for me.

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Hi Catalin

Yes that’s never worked on the theme for me

So where it states in settings – disable on tablet – and you can fix a dimension? And on smartphone? It doesn’t work on the theme, it doesn’t change the dimensions at all – it serves ad sizes that are too big which brings a Google compliance issue

Bogdan

Yes thanks for this – it would be a great feature in these days of so much video content that is shot by news orgs, and not usually put on YouTube anymore – perhaps a future development to have raw video (local) as a featured ‘image’ like the Vimeo/YT options can be considered
Best wishes

Pat

Hi Andrei

Yes I know about the YouTube method

Will this work for a local video? A video that’s been uploaded in media on WordPress? If the media URL is entered?

Pat

Yes I understand – please don’t get me wrong I’m a massive fan of the theme – but things are moving on – I’m just thinking of the future development of Newspaper – mobile is the way forward – AMP/FB Instant etc – so a mobile site must be as close as possible to instant, clearly it can’t be instant but it does need 2 seconds max in load time. Newspaper 7 mobile therefore is a great thing.

However for a news outlet with a large following/visitors, it’s pointless investing in lots of blocks and widgets on a sophisticated home page, so though I still use the theme I’ve stripped it back to basically a roll of articles with one grid and one block. Others will do the same, and all of then sell their own ads on these sites and so need the flexibility.

Recently AdRotate’s author planned to remove mobile ads (except Google type) from his plugin settings, there were so many people begging him not to for this reason that he left it the same so sold ads could appear. If a site owner has developed an inventory of ad positions and prices over two years, he/she then can’t just change these positions when people may have paid for a year or so. It would be the right thing to develop this so a site owner can switch the same options on for the mobile theme if he/she needs them, it can’t be that difficult to do and will keep customers with Newspaper 7+

Thanks

Yes but when a business has sold ads itself – customers have paid for them to show on mobile site – so I can’t use the mobile site unless the positions are the same exactly as the desktop site – it’s a step too far unless these options can be given.

It’s ok for google ads etc but not for a independent news website – will just leave it switched off which is a shame but not end of world ?

Thanks

To update – all is well with the update now – but the mobile theme strips ads out – because they’re not Google Ads they are sold by myself to local businesses is there a way to use the mobile theme with the ads still there?

Happy either way but would be good to know – already lost native ads on AMP AND Facebook Instant Articles and so have to show them on the mobile version of the site – if not will switch it off but would be good to get speed benefits.

Thanks
Pat

This is the same problem for me – I thought an Ubermenu problem – but installed on staging and the problem is still there – v7 loads the mobile menu on desktop vertically not horizontally

To add I restored to v6 from back up and all good again

Go to Theme Panel – Categories – per Category Settings – there’s a list of your own categories

There are a number of flexible settings for each separate category here

Chris

Thanks for all help – it may help others – these page rules if using CloudFlare fixed errors – now all error-free for AMP

CloudFlare Page Rules for AMP – before a fix comes from CloudFlare

Thanks again

Pat