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In general, we can work with almost any theme. The most important thing is that you have a sidebar that's at least 300 pixels wide and doesn't shrink to smaller than that. You'll also want a responsive design that includes a mobile view. 

Since theme changes have been known to make ads disappear, we recommend launching a new theme during business hours which are Monday - Friday from 9am - 4pm CST. 

Important reminders: 

  • If your new theme has a sticky sidebar, our script will not be able to place a sticky sidebar ad. You'll need to ‘un-stick’ your sidebar to make sure we can properly target an ad there. 
  • We recommend a font size between 18-22px and a line height of 1.6-1.8. 
  • Journey ad placement works best with long-form post content. Because of this - we only place content ads in post templates with long-form post content.
  • Right now, Journey only places content ads throughout actual post content since otherwise these ads could break the layout of pages. We also don't currently have an option for manual ad placement, but you'll still have the adhesion banner ad and Universal Video Player able to load on the homepage.


Once you've changed your theme - please comment in this thread with your site URL so we can make sure selectors are correct and recrawl your site if need be! 

You can also check out these help articles to assist in the meantime. 

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  • Support
    • Journey Support Team

    Oliver Tan You're all set! 

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  • Ivan Jenic

    Hello, changed the theme of this website to Kadence: https://mobileinternist.com/
    Ever since the change, the ads have stopped appearing. I'd appreciate it if you could recrawl the site.

    Thank you ;)

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  • Saskia de Best

    Hi there,

    I've changed themes (from custom built for me to Kadence) and have gone live today. Can you please recrawl my site? I can't see any ads in the content and sidebar yet.

    https://www.sascrossingcountries.com

    Thank you :)

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  • Karen Gibson

    Hey there,

    I just rethemed my site today. Everything seems to be okay as far as ads go, but if you wouldn't mind double-checking, I'd appreciate it.

    My site is https://sproutedgarden.com

    Thanks!

    Karen Gibson

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  • Support
    • Journey Support Team

    Saskia de Best Karen Gibson You're all set! 

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  • Saskia de Best

    Thanks!

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  • Mickyworldng

    Hello Journey Support Team,
    I recently switched my website's theme from Elementor to Blocksy. Since the switch, my in-content ads are no longer appearing, although the sticky footer ad is still displaying correctly.
    Could you please re-crawl my site and update the selectors for the new Blocksy layout?
    Site URL: https://mickyworldng.com/
    Old Setup: Elementor
    New Setup: Blocksy
    I have already cleared all site and CDN caches. Thank you for your help!

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  • Support
    • Journey Support Team

    Mickyworldng — you're all set! 

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  • Lamom J
    Edited

    HI Journey Team

    I have just changed my theme and my main body ads have disappeared. Can you please take a look

     

    Thanks!

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  • Support
    • Journey Support Team

    Lamom J - you're good to go!

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  • Jonas Lindemann

    Could you please recrawl my site sport-calculator.com? Right now no ads are showing within the blog posts like here: https://sport-calculator.com/blog/tcx-vs-fit-vs-gpx-whats-the-difference 

    Thanks! :) 

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  • Lamom J

    Thank you Support team!

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  • boatsgeek

    recently changed boatsgeek.com and yumtonight.com.  can you re-crawl these 2 sites?

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  • Support
    • Journey Support Team

    Jonas Lindemann You should be all set!

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  • Support
    • Journey Support Team

    boatsgeek You're good to go on both sites!

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  • Viney Bhatia

    Hi team, I have recently did a lot of changes in my design, can you please recrawl my site https://midforex.com/ Thanks.

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  • Support
    • Journey Support Team

    You're all set Viney Bhatia 

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  • Erin
    Edited

    I have changed themes…can I get my site checked please?   I noticed that I am not getting in content ads or sidebar ads and my privacy policy is not being accepted anymore. 

     

    https://www.recipesmymomgaveme.com

     

    Thank you!

     

     

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  • Support
    • Journey Support Team

    Erin It looks like when you switched themes, the ad script went missing! You'll want to add that back and then we can take another look! These steps should help you out.

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  • Erin
    Edited

    Support - -I double checked it…can you check again?  It's there.  Right above my - -<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>   tag. 

    I am using the script wrapper, correct? 

    Thanks! 

     

     

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  • viniciussn

    Hello, my website is new to the platform. No ads are being displayed except for the one that sticks to the bottom of the screen.

    Website: https://visnoinvest.com.br/news/12132/itausa-itsa4-registra-lucro-de-r-165-bi-em-2025

    I have tested with ?test=houseads, but still no ads are showing.

    Currently, I have another ad network running (which I will remove once Journey is working properly). I also tested without any other ad network, but no ads are displayed.

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  • Support
    • Journey Support Team

    viniciussn — it looks like I'm seeing ads display, could you please take a look? Existing ads will need to be removed in order for the script to properly display ads. 

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  • Support
    • Journey Support Team

    Emrah you're all set! 

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  • Support
    • Journey Support Team

    Erin Thanks so much! Ads are displaying, but I noticed that you're using a content hint in your sidebar, which is overriding Journey's in-content ad placements. Removing this HTML block in your sidebar should take care of it. 

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  • Traveling Through Food Blog

    Hi team!

    I've just migrate to Word Press from Weebly ☠️ All my top earning posts have already been migrated and I have a handful more to do. 

    Can you check if everything is in place correctly now and whether or not a recrawl is needed?

    Thanks so much! 🥰

    www.travelingthroughfood.com 
    Couple's Food & Travel Blog | Portugal  & Cruises 
     

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  • Erin

    Thank you!!

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  • Support
    • Journey Support Team

    Traveling Through Food Blog thanks for letting us know! I had the script recrawl your site and you should be good to go now!

     

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  • Trevor Fortune

    Hi, I have a Next.js/Tailwind calculator site with a 3-column layout on calculator pages. I've added journey-sidebar and sidebar classes to my sidebar, with sidebar_atf_target and sidebar_btf_target divs at the bottom. The sidebar is ≥300px wide on desktop. When testing with ?test=houseads I can't see a house ad placeholder in the sidebar. 

    Can you re-scan/re-target my site? Here's a sample URL: completecalculators.com/calculators/finance/loan

    I'd also like to configure a manual ad placement above the calculator widget on the left column on these pages, is that possible?

    Thank you

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  • Support
    • Journey Support Team

    Hi Trevor Fortune , 

    Thanks for adding that journey-sidebar class to your sidebar. I had our script recrawl your site and you're now targeted for your sticky sidebar ad. 

    As of now, Journey does not support any custom placements for ads. That remains one of the benefits of advancing to Mediavine Official.

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