advert obscuring my web blog

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    julianbuchanan · Member ·

    I have been sent an image that shows an advert on this page;

    Unmasking New Zealand’s ‘World Leading Drug Reform’

    is obscuring some of the text on my web blog

    Can you fix it?
    Thanks

    Julian Buchanan

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    justjennifer · Member ·

    Hi there, please upload that image to your site’s Media Library so that Staff will be able to have a look at it. Let us know in this thread when you’ve done so. Thanks.

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    julianbuchanan · Member ·

    Hi thanks for getting back to me

    I’ve uploaded the screenshot that was sent to me by one of my twitter followers – you can view it here:
    https://julianbuchanan.wordpress.com/d_wfyupw4aah3pf-1/

    I responded on twitter and said:
    “thanks – unfortunately I have no control over what or how wordpress adverts appear on my website – as it’s a subscription free site -maybe I should pay an annual subscription -but all I do is voluntary and self funded

    Maybe decrease the size of the screen it may fall into place?”

    And go the response:
    “Unfortunately doesn’t work, I’m sure if you send them an email they’ll reconfigure it for you 👍”

    The problem appears to be on this page:

    Unmasking New Zealand’s ‘World Leading Drug Reform’

  • supernovia · Staff ·

    Hi @julianbuchanan, normally that ad should just show in a sidebar. The theme you’re using has been retired for quite some time, and that’s causing other readability issues on a phone, too. So I suspect that’s behind this ad trouble.

    Would you be willing to do one of the following to see if it helps?

    – Switch to a newer theme (you might like https://colineardemo.wordpress.com/ )

    OR

    – Enable the “default mobile theme” — it’s quite old, and we only use it as a fallback if your theme does not work well on mobile devices. But it loads quickly and cleanly on small screens, so if you’re unwilling to change themes for desktop viewing, please test with this to confirm whether the theme is the issue.

    Let us know when you’ve done one or the other, and whether it seems to help this issue. As a bonus, your increasing number of mobile visitors will have a much easier time reading your site. Thanks in advance!

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    julianbuchanan · Member ·

    hi supernovia
    thanks for the helpful advice
    I switched to colinear as suggested and it looks better and hopefully works well on all platforms
    cheers
    Julian

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