I’ve just moved some of my blogs to a new hosting package with my current hosting company. Since it’s the same host it was pretty easy. Download the files, upload them to new webspace. Export the database, import it to new server. Done.
Problem was that one of the sites, Wellsy’s World was working fine but not displaying any Adsense ads. I went to check the settings and everything was fine so I went to check Google’s reports and it turned out that site hadn’t had any impressions for well over a month – something had broken before the move and I hadn’t noticed.
I tried altering the adsense settings, updating WordPress, checking the privacy settings, creating a new adsense ad and adding that to the site but nothing worked. I then tried removing the plugin and trying some others. None of them worked – half of them wouldn’t even install. At the point when I was about to give up and hard code the adsense code into the wordpress files myself I tried installing the original plugin again and for some reason (maybe is was a newer version) it didn’t just pull in the saved settings from before but asked me to set it all up from scratch again. I did so and hey-presto!
I should have originally just followed rule 1 of IT support – turn it off and turn it on again.
I'm a web developer based in the East Midlands, UK and if I keep up the current rate, I might have developed 3 million sites by the time I retire