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In the case of WordPress managed servers, they automatically update. No option to not update and no warning or notification of time of updates.

Wow. There are a lot of problems with it.

Why doesn’t WordPress fix these before putting it out there?

WordPress servers update automatically, so WordPress is basically knowingly causing problems for users on its servers.

Nah, if I could do that I would.

In this case I mostly use the 3-ad Quick Adsense plugin ads, but on some posts I want to just have 2 ads or 1 ad.

Right, so that I can disable one ad on a post template that has an ad built into the page layout.

That worked, thank you

The one in question at the moment is Quick Adsense.

I tried a few things with that line of code. I might be using it wrong, but I could only make it display the ads only (no content) if I use

<?php echo apply_filters( 'the_content', '<!--OffDef--><!--Ads1-->' ); ?>

in place of

<?php the_content(); ?>

And if I try to combine the two (various ways) it displays double the ads with the same amount of content.

Yes, the plugin author is no longer tending his support, which is why I tried here. There are several plugins that seem to use this kind of procedure though, to alter how their elements display within the text of an article.

Hopefully someone on here will have experience with it.

Thanks anyways

Yes, isn’t that just to insert shortcodes onto a page –like if you want to insert a plugin by shortcode? I have done that before.

What I’m trying to do is insert what I would otherwise paste into the text side of the editor (so it’s actually in the content) so that all the custom pages will be just as though I had done that.

My shortcode is <!–OffDef–><!–Ads1–>

I did, but it doesn’t provide examples of use or a description of how to implement the code.

That worked! Thank you. Nice code Michael

Thanks stephencottontail. That worked great. And I think from your name I’ve benefited from your code before too!

Except I don’t want to display the page author (I am able to do that already).

I want to display the bio for A SPECIFIED user.

eg On Page1, all users see bio of Walt Whitman (who did not write the page but does have a profile on the website).

That worked, thanks PetraP

Yes, that is exactly what it was. Thank you.

To elaborate for others, the is_category only works if you are on an actual category page (not just checked for a category). in_ and has_ (do the same thing) are for if you want to condition based on if your posts are checked for a category.

Thanks, Stephen Cottontail.

Right. We’ve been attacked before. I was posting this in part to ask WordPress insiders if it was actually WordPress sending the message (still uncertain), but also as a sort of community bulletin, i.e. warn others not to click those links and to be suspicious with “confirm comments” type emails saying they are coming from WordPress, because this one looked very much like a legit email and I clicked it, but it may well have been an attack/phishing scam/etc.