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1. d0ndota
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I'm using an Ad-sense ready theme from wpskins.org/themes.

   In the Appearance Editor, there are (Adspace 1 page template, ad1.php) and (Adspace 2 page template, ad2.php).

   As soon as I installed the theme into the blog, there were already 2 Adsense ad units working perfectly....

   However, Im confused because when i goto google.com/adsense and into my already made account, it has no data.

   How does the theme know what/who I am. Whenever someone clicks on the ads, how does the theme know who to give credit to?!?

   I installed adsense manager 3.0x and that just confused me even more.

   PLease help!

2. JasonGW
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   That doesn't make them fraud, it makes them pre-populated with the creator's adsense code. In most cases these themes have either an options page or a php file that you edit (often called "adsense.php" for example) and insert your own code, which is then reflected on all the pages in the theme. In a few I've seen recently you have to put your code into every php file individually, but these are in the minority.

   In my recent experience, adsense plugins tend to work without the theme itself being "adsense ready".

3. iridiax
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Although it's a bit sleazy IMO, I think that a theme designer adding his or her own Adsense code to a downloadable theme may be marginally okay (for now) unless WordPress themes could somehow be considered "software", which is against Adsense program policies to add Adsense code to.

   If you want themes without included ads or spam links, your best chance of finding them is right here on wordpress.org:

   http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/

   There was just a major removal of themes with ads, SEO link schemes, and violations of the GPL. To read about the resulting uproar, Google: wordpress themes removed

4. JasonGW
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Personally I don't see the big deal. I find it takes me at most 10 minutes to strip somebody else's adsense code and add my own. It's as simple as copying your adsense code, then open-->select-->paste-->save-->close, DONE :). Besides, I almost always do it BEFORE I upload the theme, unless I'm just trying to give it a quicky test.

   I'm pretty lazy, but I'm not THAT lazy that I can't copy and paste my own code :)

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