Title: How do I implement Adsense on my WordPress installation? Last modified: December 18, 2019 --- # How do I implement Adsense on my WordPress installation? * [francombat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/francombat/) * (@francombat) * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adsense-77/) * Hi, * I am trying to connect my site to adsense for the first time. I am not pasting ad unit yet. All I want for now is to paste the first code that will connect my site to adsense so that google can review it, but I keep getting the following message: * Unable to communicate back with site to check for fatal errors, so the PHP change was reverted. You will need to upload your PHP file change by some other means, such as by using SFTP. * I do follow the directives: * 1) Copy the code below 2) Paste it into the HTML, between the and tags 3) Check the box and click done when you finish. * What is wrong with this? * Thank you! - This topic was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by [francombat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/francombat/). - This topic was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/). Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic - This topic was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/). Reason: Made title descriptive * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fadsense-77%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * Thread Starter [francombat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/francombat/) * (@francombat) * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adsense-77/#post-12248593) * I used a plugin Health Check plugin and two critical issues shown up about my WordPress configuration and items: * SSL certificate problem: self signed certificate * Should I uninstall the Free SSL security certificate? And then, reinstall it after ? * [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/) * (@joyously) * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adsense-77/#post-12252477) * I asked in Slack about this error “Unable to communicate back with site to check for fatal errors” and Otto said: * > server misconfiguration or paranoid security settings > basically, server can’t > contact itself, either because it lacks DNS configuration, or because it doesn’t > know how to route to itself that way, or because some security is in place > preventing loopback. Result will be the theme and plugin editors will not work, > wp-cron cannot run, which in turn leads to pingbacks not being sent and scheduled > posts don’t work. Oh, and because it can’t call back to itself to detect the > audio filetypes, the built in podcast functionality won’t work. * Thread Starter [francombat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/francombat/) * (@francombat) * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adsense-77/#post-12252534) * So, how to fix it ? Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) The topic ‘How do I implement Adsense on my WordPress installation?’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 3 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [francombat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/francombat/) * Last activity: [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adsense-77/#post-12252534) * Status: not a support question ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics