Title: Alternating posts
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Alternating posts

 *  [wheresrhys](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wheresrhys/)
 * (@wheresrhys)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/alternating-posts/)
 * In order to put ads on my site, but only every few posts, I want to add a simple
   conditional to the bottom of each post, containing my ad code.
 * I have ssomething like the following:
    <?php if (the_ID() % 3 == 0){ ?> ad code
 * <?php } ?>
 * But all this does is echo the id of the post…. for EVERY post!
 * What am I doing wrong?

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/alternating-posts/#post-1053189)
 * Try using $post->ID, as [the_ID](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_ID)
   is intended to display the ID of a post.
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/alternating-posts/#post-1053227)
 * Also see you got an answer here: [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/763179/alternate-posts-in-wordpress](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/763179/alternate-posts-in-wordpress)

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## Tags

 * [Alternate](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/alternate/)
 * [conditional](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/conditional/)
 * [posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/posts/)

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 * Last reply from: [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/alternating-posts/#post-1053227)
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