where do you need to place the ad ? your site link will help us to give more tips
Usually this kind of code should be pasted in the TEMPLATES not in post/Page content.
More: http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Advertisement
Thanks – but how do I get into the Templates. My blog was set up by a web designer so I have only used the Dashboard
Well, if you want to be the “webmaster” of your site + you want to make money of it… you should learn the basics of working with files, FTP etc.
There is no other way. Or pay you designer for “maintanence”.
So are you saying I will be unable to do this myself – that my web designer will have to do it?
Go to where your Dashboard is, under WP-Admin.
Click on Presentation > Themes > Theme Editor > Sidebar.php
Paste your AdSense code somewhere in there & click Save.
Always make a back-up of your theme before you make changes in the template code.
yaa do as Dgold said before that via ftp chmod your theme file
Livefor –Before you just drop that adsense code into your sidebar.php, make sure to not disrupt the
<ul>
<li>/li></li>
</ul>
structure you have in your sidebar list. It really is not hard to avoid, but you might want to read up on where to slap code. Do a search in the wiki on edting sidebars.
Generally though, you want to place your adsense code between repeating segments (nested lists) that look something like this
<ul><h2>Categories</h2>
<li> {all sorts of code and comments}
</li>
</ul>
POST YOUR ADSENSE Code HERE
<ul><h2>Recent Posts</h2>
<li> {all sorts of code and comments}
</li>
</ul>
Make sure to do it well before the <?php endif; ?>, and preferably post it up against one of the nested lists as noted above.
Play around with the code location by cutting and pasting.
ALSO, If it’s not already part of the adsense code, at the start and end of what they give you, for new folks its usually helpful to add comments identifing the start and end of their code as follows so you don’t lose it. (it’s hard as a newbie to recall what was there and wasn’t before you edit)
<!-- start adsense code -->
{adsense code here}
<!-- end adsense code -->
Thanks for the suggestions – will give it a try. I am also interested in using amazon links. Do these go into the HTML editor on the specific page??
