Title: Problem with responsive ads
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Problem with responsive ads

 *  [smackbomb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smackbomb/)
 * (@smackbomb)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-responsive-ads/)
 * First of all, thanks for this theme. It’s extremely well-done and looks great.
 * I have a problem with the implementation of responsive ads in mobile views. I’ve
   tried putting ad code in the PHP files themselves and also using the Ad Injection
   plugin. The problem I’m running into is that for ads that appear in the post 
   body (i.e. above of below post content), the expanding sidebar is causing Google
   to see the width of the page as wider than it actually is, so instead of getting
   a 300×250 size ad in mobile view it’s dropping a 728×90 ad which gets cut off
   because the page width isn’t anywhere near 728 pixels.
 * So I was wondering if there was a patch, workaround, or fix for something like
   this. Every other WP theme I’ve used implements this correctly; on wider desktop
   screens the ads display at 728×90 or larger, and in mobile view it drops to 300
   ×250.
 * I don’t want to turn off sidebars in mobile view because they contain essential
   site navigation.

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 *  [bdbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bdbrown/)
 * (@bdbrown)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-responsive-ads/#post-5703443)
 * HI smackbomb. Can you post a link to your site? Thanks.
 *  Thread Starter [smackbomb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smackbomb/)
 * (@smackbomb)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-responsive-ads/#post-5703452)
 * Sure – I actually have 2:
 * [http://www.unofficialsurvivorguide.com](http://www.unofficialsurvivorguide.com)
 * [http://smackbomb.com](http://smackbomb.com)
 * Thanks.
 *  [bdbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bdbrown/)
 * (@bdbrown)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-responsive-ads/#post-5703453)
 * I took a look at both sites. Guess I’m not following what you’re describing. 
   Can you point to a specific page/post on which this occurs?
 *  Thread Starter [smackbomb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smackbomb/)
 * (@smackbomb)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-responsive-ads/#post-5703454)
 * Apologies – I had them removed. I should have put it back so you could see – 
   sorry.
 * I put the ad back above the posts on [http://www.unofficialsurvivorguide.com](http://www.unofficialsurvivorguide.com)
 * Thanks for taking a look.
 *  [bdbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bdbrown/)
 * (@bdbrown)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-responsive-ads/#post-5703459)
 * I’m thinking there must be some conflict between the theme and the plugin, although
   I’m not sure what it would be. I’ve helped several users successfully add dynamic
   sidebars with responsive ad content both within post content and within the loop
   between posts.
 *  Thread Starter [smackbomb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smackbomb/)
 * (@smackbomb)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-responsive-ads/#post-5703462)
 * I’m not married to the plugin; I just want to be able to put responsive ads above
   posts. If you have another method please do let me know. Thanks again for your
   time.
 *  [bdbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bdbrown/)
 * (@bdbrown)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-responsive-ads/#post-5703463)
 * Give this a try and see how it works:
    1. Theme Options > Sidebars, add a new
   sidebar with a title and id of something like “Post Ads” and “post-ads” (they
   don’t have to be the same). 2. In Widgets, drop a text widget in the Post Ads
   sidebar and insert your ad code. 3. Copy single.php from the parent theme to 
   your child theme. 4. Add the dynamic sidebar in single.php just above the post
   title:
 *     ```
       <?php while ( have_posts() ): the_post(); ?>
       	<article <?php post_class(); ?>>
       		<div class="post-inner group">
   
       <?php dynamic_sidebar( 'post-ads' ); ?> 
   
       			<h1 class="post-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
       			<p class="post-byline"><?php _e('by','hueman'); ?> <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?> · <?php the_time(get_option('date_format')); ?></p>
       ```
   
 * 5. Position it using css.
 *  [bdbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bdbrown/)
 * (@bdbrown)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-responsive-ads/#post-5703491)
 * I’m also working on this issue with another user and ran across this post on 
   one of the threads I read:
 * > I’ve tried helping others with AdSense resizing problems before, and the problem
   > is that the ads get output inside an iFrame. When you pick a particular ad 
   > format, you pick a specific size, and the iFrame code comes with the width &
   > height attributes set. While you can override the size attributes for the iFrame
   > by adding width & height CSS properties, you can’t touch the contents of the
   > iFrame with CSS, since it reflects the contents of another site, so resizing
   > the iFrame, e.g., making it smaller for a narrower view port, will generally
   > cut off parts of the ad.
   > This problem is more apparent in AdSense ads which have a wide, horizontal 
   > format which are intended to fit in the main content area of a page, rather
   > than the vertical, tall thin ads which are intended to fit inside a sidebar.
   > So if you do have the wider ads, I would consider switching to the vertical
   > ones and putting them in a sidebar, or in a narrow widget area of the footer.
 * I also found a couple of articles related to responsive Google ads; maybe one
   of them will help:
    [How to Use Google AdSense Ads on Responsive Websites](http://www.labnol.org/internet/google-adsense-responsive-design/25252/)
   [How to add Google AdSense Responsive Ads to WordPress](http://www.netchimp.co.uk/webdesign/wordpress/add-google-adsense-responsive-ads-wordpress/)

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