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XyZedMemberThanks Brad. That's useful to know. I've just tested it out. It works 🙂 Though it only looks good for a small bit of content because it appears to only show content placed directly within the paragraph inside the functions file using echo function? Unless there is a way to get it to load content from elsewhere it would mean adding a lot of content via the functions.php file. I'm not sure if that's OK, or advisable? I'm looking to add banners etc.
XyZedMemberI've just done more research and it's official. The most common device to access the internet is now a mobile device. So most people will not see any of my adverts with the sidebar being displayed after comments. I appreciate the best thing to do is for me to totally rethink how I display my ads but it would be great to have a quick workaround to be able to have sidebar display after content and before the comments.
XyZedMemberIs this the right place to report this or do I need to get in touch directly with the author of the Streamline Pro Theme? If a theme is sold as "pro" but directly hinders the display of adverts to mobile users this is surely a design flaw?
XyZedMemberThanks. I may have posted in the wrong area? I didn't think it necessary to link to my site as was sure it is the way the Streamlinepro theme is designed but maybe I'm wrong.
Here is a typical page of mine with the ads in the sidebar
These ads are part of the resource of my site and essential to finance it. But they are not shown until after comments when displaying on mobiles devices. This effectively means that the vast majority of people will never see them if there are comments on an article.
As mobile devices are becoming the dominant device it is now something that seriously undermines any site with ads.
June 3, 2013 at 3:55 am in reply to: Only some images show on category pages but nothing different #43779XyZedMemberI haven't, I've assumed it's an issue with the eleven40 Child Theme though.
June 3, 2013 at 3:35 am in reply to: Only some images show on category pages but nothing different #43777XyZedMemberHello Chris, yes and no. I've still no idea why it would show most of the images, but on every page there was at least 3 or 4 articles where it refused to show the image despite them all being exactly the same. I eventually had to go through every post and use the image as a featured image.
If there's a featured image it will always show it on the category lists but if there's no featured image, and an image in the first paragraph it will show it in the page lists only 70% of the time.
XyZedMemberMany thanks, it's what I suspected but didn't want to embark on the strategy only to find it was a dead end 🙂
XyZedMemberMany thanks, I didn't get notification of your comment so I've only just seen it. I am actually using the simple sidebars plugin to assign unique sidebars to specific pages and was wondering if it could cause any problems if I had hundreds of them.
XyZedMemberHello Angela. I just create a sidebar named after the page I want it to appear on, then edit the page I want it to show on and select the sidebar from the drop down menu on the right where it says "Sidebar selection" - Primary sidebar.
It's working fantastic for me, turns a boring blog with predictable ads that can be ignored always on the right column into a blog where many pages have proper content spread across the entire page, with relevant ads placed amongst them.
XyZedMemberThank you for that. Could anything be achieved using simple edits by any chance? I still think this idea (feature) would be something that should be included for everyone to use.
XyZedMemberThank you Chris. I think what I want to do may be impractical because I'd like to have a different sidebar for each page, which could get ridiculous. However, if each page has a different side bar - wouldn't caching not load the right one when they went to another page or am I misunderstanding?
The reason I want to do this makes a lot of sense to me (and hopefully others), and potentially beneficial for a lot of Genesis theme users so it would be great if a way to do it could be found.
I believe most wordpress sites have content on the left and adverts in the sidebar, and that users quickly realise this, and start to ignore the sidebar. I also find that many articles have a long entry on the main left column and just a few affiliate ads in the sidebar with loads of blank space when you scroll down.
If the sidebar contained parts of the genuine content of a page, and the ads were just placed in there too - then people would read all of the page, it would look better too 🙂
Here's an example of a quite long page I have using this technique
http://www.whitegoodshelp.co.uk/tumble-dryer-buying-advice/
and here's an example of a normal page with a standard sidebar, which you can see is just full of ads, and the content on the left far outweighs content in the sidebar giving it an unsatisfactory lop-sided look
http://www.whitegoodshelp.co.uk/do-i-have-to-wait-in-all-day-for-an-engineer/
People seeing articles on the latter will quickly learn to ignore the sidebar because it's just ads, but on a site displaying content like my first example, people will read all of the page - and it just looks better.
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