horrible ads on top of the header

  • Unknown's avatar
    ponycaramelneptune93033 · Member ·

    Hi,

    for our German website illustrer.de we’ve chosen the design Theme. Under the head of featured we postet our illustrations and various other content. Since June we had to take notice, that wordpress.com places ads on head, on the top of the header.

    That’s quite incredible. Not only it slashes the format by a frame of 160 x 600 px (!!!), the Ad is furthermore permanently placed and visible for all visitors. This stands against the rules of wordpress.com, which state: “At WordPress.com, we sometimes display advertisements on your blog to help pay the bills. This keeps free features free!” Sometimes, not continuously. And certainly not in a manner to spoil the whole appearance of a blog?

    Some weeks ago s.c. Happiness Engineer kokkieh stated: “The team is experimenting with more ad slots and different ad placements on free sites” (https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/ads-on-the-blog-1?replies=14#post-3069763). And like User janapinkuh we also are “okay with ads, I get them most of the time at the end of my posts, and I know ads help WordPress” (https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/toujours-blog-theme-and-ads?replies=2#post-3075157).

    At this point we are no longer frustrated but pissed off. Messing with more-column-designs decreases their value for each and every user. Moreover the lack of information of all kind concerning this serious item while choosing themes for a new blog, mingles with the freedom of choice in an unfair way.

    No use to praise your pay-models in this case: Your’re changing the free-use-rules in existing free-deals and causing more damage than a Tornado. So stop messing around and tell straight away, if this bug will stay as a feature. We’ll draw our consequences.

    Best, ms

    The blog I need help with is illustrer.de

  • Unknown's avatar
    justjennifer · Member ·

    Nserver: ns1026.ui-dns.biz
    Nserver: ns1026.ui-dns.com
    Nserver: ns1026.ui-dns.de
    Nserver: ns1026.ui-dns.org

    meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress 5.4.2″

    Hi there, It does sound very frustrating! Are you participating in the WordAds program on your standalone WordPress site hosted at IONOS?

    Just noting that the references you gave in your above post (from more than 2 years ago) refers to sites that are hosted here on the WordPress.com platform.

    For reference, these forums assist users of free sites hosted on WordPress.com’s platform. More information can be found at https://wordpress.com/support/com-vs-org/

  • The topic ‘horrible ads on top of the header’ is closed to new replies.