Title: Rotation not working
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Rotation not working

 *  Resolved [fmpweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fmpweb/)
 * (@fmpweb)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rotation-not-working/)
 * Hi – I have the latest version of the plugin installed at [http://www.youruttoxeter.com](http://www.youruttoxeter.com),
   with banners displayed on the homepage, but find that rotation is not working.
 * At one point rotation did work when the homepage was viewed on a desktop pc, 
   but it has never worked on mobile devices – galaxy smartphones or tablets.
 * I’ve switch of my caching plugin SG CachePress and deactivated my host’s SuperCacher
   services. I’ve even flushed the cache before doing so.
 * Banner rotation does work on inside pages and posts widget areas on both desktop
   and mobile, even when all my caching options are activated.
 * Any thoughts on what the problem might be? I’ve deactivated all plugins but again
   no luck on the frontpage.
 * Thanks.
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 *  Plugin Author [Thomas Maier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webzunft/)
 * (@webzunft)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rotation-not-working/#post-6519192)
 * Hi fmpweb,
 * thank you for your message. From what you describe I can only assume a problem
   with the ad group or ads being different. Since rotation works in some places,
   the caching might indeed not be the cause here.
 * Do you have identical ads and groups on the positions or different for where 
   it works and where it doesn’t?
 * Thanks
    Thomas
 *  Thread Starter [fmpweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fmpweb/)
 * (@fmpweb)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rotation-not-working/#post-6519249)
 * Hi Thomas – on the frontpage I currently have four groups, one at the top (Block
   1) with two ads set to random, to only display one ad at a time and they are 
   not in any other group – this doesn’t rotate.
 * The remaining three groups (Block 2, Block 3 and Block 4) each have three ads,
   again set to random. Each group has the same ads and are set to show just one
   ad at a time – these don’t rotate.
 * I’ve even tried just have Block 2 in multiple places on the frontpage – again
   it doesn’t work.
 * The inside pages/posts is one group with five ads, set to random and to show 
   up to three ads. This does rotate.
 * Does that explain?
 * Thanks. Gavin.
 *  Thread Starter [fmpweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fmpweb/)
 * (@fmpweb)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rotation-not-working/#post-6519250)
 * Hi again Thomas – I’ve also tried with just one group on the frontpage (with 
   a) just Block 1 with two ads and b) just Block 2 with three ads. Again, no rotation.
 *  Plugin Author [Thomas Maier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webzunft/)
 * (@webzunft)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rotation-not-working/#post-6519253)
 * What did you do in order for the ads to show up in the masonry grid? How is that
   created?
 * Thanks
    Thomas
 *  Thread Starter [fmpweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fmpweb/)
 * (@fmpweb)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rotation-not-working/#post-6519255)
 * I’m using the views plugin from [https://wp-types.com/](https://wp-types.com/).
   This uses shortcodes to create layouts. Are you au fait with this plugin?
 * Could it be a shortcode within a shortcode issue or a loop within a loop issue?
 * Saying that however, the first ad group isn’t in the loop.
 *  Plugin Author [Thomas Maier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webzunft/)
 * (@webzunft)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rotation-not-working/#post-6519298)
 * How is the first group implemented?
 * I am thinking more about caching. Maybe they have their own implementation of
   it.
 * Could you please contact their support too since wp-types is obviously a premium
   service and groups don’t rotate within their software, but seems to work outside
   of it.
 * Any information from them would help. I just want to prevent the situation where
   I am debugging their paid software to make my free plugin work.
 * Thanks
    Thomas
 *  Thread Starter [fmpweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fmpweb/)
 * (@fmpweb)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rotation-not-working/#post-6519331)
 * Hi Thomas – thanks for your continued help.
 * I can now get rotation to work on both desktop and mobile. It was a combination
   of me not placing the Advanced As shortcode in the correct places, my caching
   plugin and, in particular, this piece of code in the htaccess file:
 *     ```
       ## EXPIRES CACHING ##
       <IfModule mod_expires.c>
       ExpiresActive On
       ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 year"
       ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 year"
       ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 year"
       ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 year"
       ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"
       ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 month"
       ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 1 month"
       ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month"
       ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 1 year"
       ExpiresDefault "access 2 days"
       </IfModule>
       ## EXPIRES CACHING ##
       ```
   
 * Deactivating the caching plugin slows the site down a little but I’ll have to
   look into dealing with that. Is there a way to exclude the banner ads from being
   cached? I’ll have a chat with the SG CachePress authors too 🙂
 * Thanks again for your help.
 * Cheers.
 *  Plugin Author [Thomas Maier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webzunft/)
 * (@webzunft)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rotation-not-working/#post-6519333)
 * Thanks for letting me know about the solution.
 * There is a cache busting feature available in Advanecd Ads Pro ([https://wpadvancedads.com/add-ons/advanced-ads-pro/](https://wpadvancedads.com/add-ons/advanced-ads-pro/)).
 * If there is a solution for the SG CachePress plugin then I would also like to
   learn about it.
 * Thanks
    Thomas
 *  Thread Starter [fmpweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fmpweb/)
 * (@fmpweb)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rotation-not-working/#post-6519335)
 * There doesn’t appear to be a solution for the SG CachePress plugin :(. I enquired
   about how I could exclude the ads from being cached but no joy.
 * My host, SiteGround, who are very good by the way, have details on their offering
   at [https://www.siteground.com/tutorials/supercacher/supercacher_intro.htm](https://www.siteground.com/tutorials/supercacher/supercacher_intro.htm)
 * The Dynamic Cache setting is fantastic and dead simple to use. It seems a real
   shame not to be able to use it.
 * Your cache busting feature looks very interesting – will it work with this SG
   CachePress?
 * Thanks. Gavin.
 *  Plugin Author [Thomas Maier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webzunft/)
 * (@webzunft)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rotation-not-working/#post-6519336)
 * Hi Gavin,
    so far I didn’t have problems with cache-busting on any cache service,
   but I didn’t test it with SG CachePress either. If it doesn’t work and I can’t
   fix it then I do a refund of course.
 * Thanks
    Thomas
 *  Thread Starter [fmpweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fmpweb/)
 * (@fmpweb)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rotation-not-working/#post-6519340)
 * Thanks – I’ll give it a try 🙂 Thanks and all the best.

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rotation-not-working/#post-6519340)
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