Andrew Benton

Wordpress - Ad Under First Post Only (Adsense)

Dec 6 at 8:08pm by Andrew Benton

A popular thing to do is to add an Ad (adsense) immediately following the first post on the homepage of a blog. Here is a quick and simple way to do this:

Open index.php under “Presentation > Theme Editor”, it will be titled ‘Main Index Template’

Find this line:

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

Immediately above that, paste this:

<?php
$postnum = 1;
$showadsense1 = 1;
?>

That’s part one of the code - the value.

Staying in index.php, scroll down to this part:

<p class=”postmetadata”>Posted in <?php the_category(’, ‘) ?> | <?php edit_post_link(’Edit’, ”, ‘ | ‘); ?> <?php comments_popup_link(’No Comments »’, ‘1 Comment »’, ‘% Comments »’); ?></p>
</div>
<-Put the below code right here
<?php endwhile; ?>

Into that area between the ending of the div and the endwhile statement place this:

<?php if ($postnum == $showadsense1) {
echo ‘
Your adsense code goes here
‘;
} ?>

<?php $postnum++; ?>

Thats all you have to do! I’ll cover more in-depth ways of inserting ads later this weekend.