WordPress and AdSense Deluxe Plugin
By Pankaj November 21, 2006 filed in WordPress
Displaying contextual ads from Google AdSense program and Yahoo publishing network, while you write about your favorite topics in your blog posts has the potential of earning good amount of money. WordPress doesn’t really have a out of the box functionality to display these contextual ads but that does not really reduce the greatness of WordPress. It is still a fantastic blogging software. Am I being biased? May be, I just love WordPress.
Now if WordPress can’t display the Ads by itself, then Who can? The answer to this question is AdSense Deluxe plugin for WordPress. There are many other WordPress plugins can display various types of Ads in your blog posts but my favorite is AdSense Deluxe when it comes to displaying Google AdSense. Reasons, Well keep reading …
- Installation is easy as it is with most of WordPress plugins
- All settings are configured from WordPress Option Interface. No programming knowledge of any kind is required.
- AdSense display can be enabled/disabled for blog posts, pages, archive pages, home pages individually
- Enable / Disable of all ads with a click of one check box.
- Define and use any number of ad style and formatting and choose from them even on a post to post basis.
- Possibility of applying CSS formatting to adsense code.
- Placeholders are displayed while editing the posts / pages instead of live ads
- Option to preview the ad blocks and no penalty for clicking on them since they are shown using a test account.
Including the ad unit (defined in the AdSense Deluxe options page) in your template files, just calls for copying and pasting following code …
You can see it in action here in this blog. I have included the above code in my sidebar.php for this theme which always displays AdSense block in the sidebar of this blog.
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