AdSense not working in pre-existing theme slots!

crobs808
(@crobs808)

15 years, 7 months ago

Hey everyone,

I have a theme that came with pre-existing 125×125 ad slots as well as a horizontal ad unit slot on the top of the blog, see here:

http://www.corusa.com/

Now, I have Adsense-manager installed, but when I go to ad my ad to the widget bar, it creates a new slot underneath the 4 already esiting ones….I need it to use those slots. Also, I only wasnt 3 on a page, so I want to use the top horizontal ad and two of the 125×125 boxes, and delete the other two 125×125 boxes

So, how do I use the pre-existing ad slots?

THANKS

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myinstinctwaswrong
(@myinstinctwaswrong)

15 years, 7 months ago

on my theme, I had to manually insert the code for the pre-defined ad slot (my theme only had one). Then I used the Adsense widget to add more adsense code dynamically in my between my posts. Interestingly enough, I set the Adsense widget to a limit of 3 ad units – and it counts the pre-defined one that is in the header.

I think you will have to edit your theme files to remove the unwanted pre-defined areas.

Thread Starter crobs808
(@crobs808)

15 years, 7 months ago

is there a way to delete the 125×125 pre-set slots altogether? and just use the widgets you manually add?

i’d like to do that, except for the top banner…i need to know what code to change to put a AdSense ad there.

myinstinctwaswrong
(@myinstinctwaswrong)

15 years, 7 months ago

on my theme, I just edited the header.php file. In your theme header.php file, locate this

<img src=”http://corusa.com/blog/wp-content/themes/Choc/images/!ban.gif” alt=”banner” />

and replace it with the code you get from your google adsense account for a 468×60 banner ad. The theme lists it as a 480×60 ad, but adsense will provide 468×60, so it will leave you some spacing.

myinstinctwaswrong
(@myinstinctwaswrong)

15 years, 7 months ago

your 125×125 are probably in the index.php file, listed in your page source as

<div id=”body_right”>
<div id=”body_right_content”>

<div id=”right_ads”>
<div>
<img src=”http://corusa.com/blog/wp-content/themes/Choc/images/!ads.gif” alt=”ads” />
</div>
<div class=”right”>
<img src=”http://corusa.com/blog/wp-content/themes/Choc/images/!ads.gif” alt=”ads” />
</div>
<div>
<img src=”http://corusa.com/blog/wp-content/themes/Choc/images/!ads.gif” alt=”ads” />
</div>
<div class=”right”>
<img src=”http://corusa.com/blog/wp-content/themes/Choc/images/!ads.gif” alt=”ads” />
</div>
</div>
<div class=”clear”></div>

if you only want two blocks, then delete the others.

Thread Starter crobs808
(@crobs808)

15 years, 7 months ago

i tried replacing that EXACT text you told me to replace for the banner with the google adsense text, but now I get a banner that says “page not found”

whats the deal? i made sure that i did not paste of anything that you didnt tell me do. i replaced the exact text you typed

Thread Starter crobs808
(@crobs808)

15 years, 7 months ago

oh, i also had to remove the “” code too

Thread Starter crobs808
(@crobs808)

15 years, 7 months ago

that’s “< a href = # >” code…forgot to put spaces in my last post, so it translated it as html, lol

myinstinctwaswrong
(@myinstinctwaswrong)

15 years, 7 months ago

yes, you are correct about removing the a href stuff – my mistake to not include that.

When I first did mine, I also got the page not found thing – I let it go while I worked on other changes and the problem worked itself out, so I never spent any time trying to figure out what was going on.

myinstinctwaswrong
(@myinstinctwaswrong)

15 years, 7 months ago

I just looked at your site – I see 2 ads – one 468×60 at the top, and a 125×125 (or so) underneath the 4 predefined slots.

Thread Starter crobs808
(@crobs808)

15 years, 7 months ago

i check for the 125×125 one, in index.php, there is no ad code in there at all. what page contains the 125×125 preset code? because it isnt in sidebar.php eiher.

myinstinctwaswrong
(@myinstinctwaswrong)

15 years, 7 months ago

I don’t know for sure – I just figured it was in the index.php file since the CSS div is “body_right”. you will need to dig around a bit.

Don’t you think the 125 one that is displaying is probably added by your Adsense manager widget thing-a-ma-jig?

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