managing ads on your blog
There´s an easy way to manage a lot of different advertisements on your blog with one single plugin: AdSense Deluxe. If you believe that the AdSense Deluxe plugin is only good for managing your AdSense ad blocks, think again. How does the plugin work ?
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AdSense Deluxe replaces special comments inside your posts with the javascript codes for your Google AdSense ad blocks, just the way you´ve entered them in the plugin´s options. But instead of the AdSense javascript code, you could enter any HTML code and text into the “code” textbox.
Look at the box on the right side - it´s been included into this post with the AdSense Deluxe plugin. I´ve simply created a new ad block named “wptutorial”, entered the HTML into the “code” box and then placed the comment “<!–adsense#wptutorial–>” into this post.
You could use this technique to feature books, software tools or whatever else you like. The advantage is that you can easily make changes to all your ads from one place.
Comment by gabbydeb
Hi Guido, I am a subscriber to your newsletter and an active user of the Blogging Tutorial. You made Wordpress easy to understand and install with that tutorial.
My question is, why when I insert Ad$ense-Deluxe Code into my post, it shows up as a green box, with the code in it?, even when I click save and continue editing, so I can see the preview area, it still has the green box, instead of an ad block, and nothing shows up on my blog, when I save the post. I have the correct version of Wordpress and the plugin is installed in it’s proper folder on my server, so I can’t think why it isn’t working right.
Regards,
Debbie
Comment by guido
I took a look at your blog and I can see the AdSense ads in your blog posts without any green box, so I can´t say what was going wrong.
When using the AdSense Deluxe plugin, you should have the rich editor disabled ( uncheck the box in Users > Your Profile > Personal Options )
Comment by gabbydeb
Hi Guido, yes they are showing up now. I don’t understand what the problem was, because they didn’t show up all last evening, when I inserted them. hmm
Thank you so much for taking time to visit my site, to determine the problem. Have a good day!
Regards,
Debbie Gragg
Comment by Ian Levings
Hi Debbie.
Re your adsense not showing up, when you first put your adsense ads on any site, blogs or webpages, google will take a while to index your page to the correct information that it is going to show in its ads, so as you have seen you have to be a little patient.
May I also point out that if you are using word press or any other software that uses a database, you risk losing all your hard work if you have have a database failure or a server crash, and you have not backed up your database.
belive me I know from bitter experience, so much so that I produced a way to automatically backup all my databases.
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hope this info helps
Ian Levings
http://www.webincome.uk.com
Comment by Wes Shi
I have a related question. My site uses Wordpress and I just installed adsense-deluxe. The ads show up in the code as HTML comments (green text) and do not display in Firefox. However, I noticed they appear broken, but do display a little in IE 6. I have another Wordpress site that shows the ads fine and in the code, the ad blocks appear as black text. The site that is not working does have all ads enabled, does not have rich text on, and has had adsense in the code for several days. Any ideas would be appreciated. My page with the code example is http://www.dumbguide.com/dumb-criminals/dumb-criminal/
Comment by guido
Wes,
first of all, to use the AdSense-Deluxe plugin, make sure you have the rich editor disabled (see comment #2). The comments to insert adsense blocks should look like this inside the editor´s textarea:
<!–adsense–>
<!–adsense#name–>
without any spaces.
Also, are you using the same version of WP on both sites ? I visited your site dumbguide.com and couldn´t find any Google Ads - where are they supposed to be ?
Finally, have you tried to paste the javascript code for AdSense directly into a blog post or inside a theme template ? If it displays the ads, then the problem is most likely with the plugin.
Comment by Share Video
Thanks for the info. Wondering if there is any difference between adding the Adsense in the theme or using Adsense deluxe?
Comment by guido
Share Video - when you include the AdSense code directly into your theme, the same ad block will appear on all pages that use the template file with your AdSense code. Also, you can´t display ads within posts by putting the code into your template files.
AdSense Deluxe gives you the option to place different AdSense ad blocks inside your blog posts.