Display Ads Only On Selected WordPress Posts
Every blog is a little different and has it’s own unique requirements. On some blogs we may want to place an ad on every post, on others we may not. A good example is this blog. There are a few posts that I make where I feel an ad is useful and lends itself to have a relevant contextual ad placed on the post.
There is a very simple way to handle this issue.
Yes, there are plugins available that handle all kinds of issues with ads, however, I just wanted an easy way of dealing with it, so here is what I came up with.
Two lines of code and using Custom Fields does the trick,
First I wrap my ads on the single page with this code.
<?php
if (get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘ads’, true)) {
?>
AD CODE HERE
<?php
}
?>
This will cause ads to only show when there is a custom field named “ads” with a value of anything but 0. And once you have inserted the custom field you never have to add it again, just apply a value, and since this is a simple boolean expression, any value except 0 will cause the ads to display.
Examples:
No Ad : Weekly CyberCoder Tweets for 2008-11-30
With Ad : Online Residual Income
You could go the other way and have the default show the ad, or include a couple statements to change the ad location, color or anything else you could think of. This is just a simple solution for a specific need and I hope it helps someone.
If you want more options using basically the same technique I would highly recommend this tutorial, How To Automatically Disable Ads On Selected Posts In WordPress.
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Written by: David Cooley - December 1st, 2008
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Great article David. This is very helpful.
Fred, glad you found it helpful!