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1. Squeebee
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Hi All;

   I am using an adsense plugin to add adsense ads to each post on my site, and I have hacked the plugin so far to just display ads when on a single post page, but I want to modify it again to show an adsense ad for the first post on the homepage and ONLY the first page. Can anyone tell me how I would check if a given post is the first post?

   Here is my adsense.php hack so far:

   if( is_single() )
{
return str_replace( $tag, $adsense_code, $data );
}
elseif ( is_home )
{
if ( FIRST_POST?? )
{
return str_replace( $tag, $adsense_code, $data );
}
else
}
return str_replace( $tag, '', $data );
{
}
else
{
return str_replace( $tag, '', $data );
}

   I just need a value for FIRST_POST?? for it to work.

   Thanks,
   Mike

2. Anonymous
   Unregistered
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Try this:

   1. Add <?php $postcount = 0; ?> before the while/foreach
   loop.
   2. Add <?php $postcount++; ?> right after the loop starts.
   3. replace FIRST_POST?? with $postcount == 1.

3. Kafkaesqui
   Moderator
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Another way of doing this:

   http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=22505#post-129898

4. Squeebee
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Thanks for the replies. In the end these approaches did not produce data I could detect in my plugin, so I added update_option('FirstPost', TRUE); to the main template before the loop, then in the plugin used get_option() to pull the value and update it to false if it was true.

5. Ryan Boren
   WordPress Dev
   Posted 7 years ago #

   if ($wp_query->current_post == 0)

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