If you can read this, the move to our new server must have worked

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• Coffeebean09 says:

  27 Feb27 February 11:32

  It’s looking great. Well done and thanks for all the information over the last few months.

• The_Pope says:

  27 Feb27 February 12:03

  Site looks great and ads don’t bother me, however I suspect your monetisation will be limited with the 250 x 250 square ad. I’m surprised you didn’t go for the standard 300 x 250 MPU.

  I work in advertising so let me know if you want any advice on the monetisation side.

  • Rob says:

    27 Feb27 February 14:12

    Hi. Yes, I agree, but the template is designed to work with 250-wide ads. I will see how it goes, and if necessary the theme should be tweakable to fit in a 300-wide ad. 250×250 is, I admit, not on the Adsense ‘preferred sizes’ list.

• BicesterTerrier says:

  27 Feb27 February 12:03

  Welcome back. Like the look, although funnily enough I don’t recall what the old one was like. It’s a fickle old world.

  Looking forward to future posts!

• ups says:

  27 Feb27 February 18:15

  Mobile view isn’t there, is that coming later?

  • Rob says:

    27 Feb27 February 18:35

    Yes, it is a Jetpack option but not yet enabled. Thought I’d get the main site working first!

    • ups says:

      28 Feb28 February 15:48

      Cool, no worries!

      Now I noticed I didn’t get the email notification of your reply – even though I had checked the option. Perhaps another thing to look into?

      Also, will there be an option to register so we don’t have to type the name/email everytime?

      • Rob says:

        28 Feb28 February 18:16

        Hmmm. Thanks, I will look into this. I may have to get a different plug-in installed. Give me a bit of time.

        • ups says:

          28 Feb28 February 18:20

          Odd, this time I got the notification. I also got an email after my reply to confirm subscription (it was a wordpress.com link). I went ahead and confirmed the subscription anyway, but not sure if it was meant to be this way? Are you still using wordpress (the software, not the host) for your blog?

        • Rob says:

          28 Feb28 February 20:23

          Yes, still WP software, so Gravatars still work, albeit the self hosted version is a bit different to the free hosting version.

        • ups says:

          28 Feb28 February 20:48

          Right so I’m getting notifications just fine now, they are coming from donotreply@wordpress.com as before.

        • Rob says:

          28 Feb28 February 21:13

          Good stuff. I think things are still settling down a bit. The DNS changes are still not complete either … about 2% of visitors today have still been sent to the old site.

    • ups says:

      4 Mar4 March 08:19

      The mobile view is back but with an annoying big sign up box to follow the blog. It can’t be dismissed and doesn’t always move out of the way, blocking content.

      • Rob says:

        4 Mar4 March 09:06

        Yes, I turned on mobile view.

        OK. You need to help me out on this as I don’t have a mobile which works with the mobile view option.

        Is this the same black ‘Follow’ box which pops up in the bottom right corner when you view the blog on a normal PC?

        • ups says:

          4 Mar4 March 21:41

          Yes – funny enough I didn’t notice it on the PC because it is really unobtrusive (and collapsed by default). However on mobile it is expanded (and doesn’t collapse even if you click the +).

        • Raffles says:

          4 Mar4 March 21:57

          OK, I will kill it tomorrow as a trial – will need to rethink if sign-ups tail off, though!

        • ups says:

          4 Mar4 March 21:59

          I never saw it before on the mobile view, so wonder if it’s something you just need to get fixed?

        • Rob says:

          5 Mar5 March 07:13

          The black follow button is not part of self hosted WordPress – it is only part of the free hosting version.

          However, someone has written a bit of code which can be added to self hosted WordPress to recreate it. Clearly, though, this bit of code was not tested properly with mobile view, and I cannot disable it just for mobile users.

          That is why it acts differently to how it did before,

          Will disable it this morning.

• Rocky says:

  28 Feb28 February 00:49

  Welcome back loving the new site layout

• trickster says:

  28 Feb28 February 12:09

  Luma credit card ad – “the new card for poor credit” will you be reviewing this in your next credit card update?! 😉

  Seriously though, new site is looking great, and the ad’s aren’t distracting. What’s more I can access it from work now!

  • Raffles says:

    28 Feb28 February 21:54

    I have just activated the option to pre-approve ads, which will let me chop Luma, hopefully!

• Rob says:

  1 Mar1 March 08:59

  Email sent

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