Large white space in posts and About page?

You have an empty Google ad embedded in your posts. If you didn’t put them there manually then some plugin did. Check your source code to see what I mean.

You’re definitely right. Great catch!

Any clue as to how I can get rid of it? I checked my Adsense plugin. Nothing!

I’ll kep checking around. I’m sure it has to surface somewhere.

Yhanks,
Curt

My guess is it’s the All in One Adsense and YPN plugin you’re running. From the readme file on your site – Automatically insert google adsense ads or yahoo publisher network (YPN) ads in to your posts on the fly.

By the way, you may want to stick an empty index file in both your themes and plugins directory to stop people (like me) from snooping. ??

I looked at my All in One Adsense and YPN Plugin and I don’t see anything about automatically insert ads on the fly.

Also, could you expand on the empty index file? This is the first I’ve heard of this.

I don’t see anything about automatically insert ads on the fly.

You didn’t read the readme file did you? I’m telling you it’s that plugin doing it. It automatically inserts a blank Google ad in your posts. It can be configured from the Options page. Deactivate the plugin and tell me what you see?

As per your second question if you don’t want people browsing the contents of your themes and plugins folders by going to wp-content/themes or wp-content/plugins create an empty index file (index.php) with this inside,

<?php
// Silence is golden.
?>

and drop it in both folders. (themes and plugins)

I just realized which readme file you were talking about. What can I say, It’s late!

I deactivated it, but nothing changed. It must not automatically undo the addition. I can go in and edit it manually since I only have the one post so far I guess. Is there another alternative to this plugin, because I definitely plan to use Adsense later?

I still don’t see the option to change when I look at the setting in the options for the plugin.

And for the other issue. The light came on there also! You just added wp-content/themes to my URL to get there. I saw the empty index file at the higher folder level. I just copied that into the two folders.

Thanks, I appreciate the info!

Oooops!

I just logged out of my site and everything looks good now. I guess the changes didn’t show while I was still logged in. Even though I did refresh my page.

Still would like to know though if there are any other plugins that work better. Or how to properly configure the ALL-in-One plugin to not add it in automatically.

I was just looking at the plugin and there is no way to stop it from auto inserting for that is the whole point of it. However, if you look at the bottom of the Options page you’ll see several choices such as:

Don’t Show On These Pages
home page
static pages
post pages
category pages
archive pages

Also, you can prevent it from auto inserting on a post-by-post basis by placing <!--noadsense--> in whatever post you don’t want an ad to appear.

With respect to using the blank index files it’s a good idea as you never know when some unsavoury character may come along and browse your plugin folder looking for a vulnerable/outdated plugin to exploit.

I saw all of those options. I think I would want ads on all my pages but the last two categories. Plus, I don’t think I want to have to doctor every post. That’s why I installed a plugin to create excerpts.

That blank index page really explains a lot about a problem I had on another PHP script a while back. I think I’ll add that in on a couple of others I have running right now.

Thanks again for all your help! It was an eye opener. One thing I’ve learned is that you’ll never learn it all. There’s always something new.