Long time back, I wrote about showing Google AdSense ads after each post in blogger.com blogs. Now I am doing exactly opposite by limiting ads to only first post on home, archives, categories pages. Johnson wants to know how I am doing it!
To do this, You need to edit famous wordpress loop. Such a loop can be found in your current wordpress theme’s index.php. There may be other files present in your theme directory which uses loop like archives.php. They may need to be updated as well.
Listed below are steps to edit loop in index.php file. Similar steps can be performed for other files too, if required.
1. Go to Wordpress Dashboard >>Design >> Theme Editor.
2. Click on index.php or Main Index Template file. It will open in Theme Editor on left.
3. Find a line:
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
4. Add before it:
<?php $adcount = 1; ?>
5. So final code will look:
<?php $adcount = 1; ?> <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
6. Now find:
<?php endwhile; ?>
7. Add before it:
<?php $adcount++; ?>
8. So final code will look:
<?php $adcount++; ?> <?php endwhile; ?>
9. Now inside loop, i.e. after “while” line but before “endwhile” line put your AdSense codes. Exact location depend on your choice between ads before post, ads after post, etc. Important thing is you have to put your AdSense code in a if-block. below is an example…
<?php if ($adcount == 1) : ?> <!-- Put Your AdSense Code here --> <?php endif; $adcount++; ?>
That’s it. Save changes and check if it works.
Variations…
1. If you want to put ads after first two post…
In step 9 code, Change $adcount == 1 to $adcount == 2
2. If you want to put ads after first three post…
In step 9 code, Change $adcount == 1 to $adcount == 3
3. If you want to put ads after each post…
In step 9 code, Change $adcount == 1 to $adcount == 3. Yes this is same like above. Because AdSense only allows maximum three ad-units on a a single page. This way you avoid blank space created after each post when you directly put AdSense code after each post.
If you need any help, or stuck at some point, feel free to contact via comment.
(Credit: Based on Joe Hayes post.)
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thanks a lot dear !
i was eagerly waiting for this post…
Worth a Digg
I had tried similar thing on blogspot but to no avail, there wasn’t a way to show ads only after first post. But this is surely going to come handy when I start on WP
Thanks for the plug Rahul. Great tip and instructions.
@Johnson
Ya, I know it. Sorry for delay.
@Gaurav
Buddy don’t worry about moving to wordpress. I am really good at wordpress now so I will be there to handle technical issues for you.
@Joe
I thank you Joe for your original hack and accepting this article in sporty manner.
Nice tutorial, though there are several plugins that allow you to do this, I can recollect adsense injection being one of them
That’s a nice tip. I actually knew it, but not in a right procedural way. All blogs at hyperwebenable will be added with such codes so ads appear only on first post’s top and bottom.
Thanks Rahul, would be contacting you in a day or so
@Keith
Yep you are right.
But I prefer direct coding as to keep my plugin list as small as possible.
@Pavan
Yep that variation can also achieved by setting counter to 1 and putting codes at two places.
@Gaurav
Your welcome buddy.
how to get adsense code.
@aju
Signup for adsense…
thats wat. for google adsense or sum other adsense wre shud i go andd sign up. can u give me the link pls.
@aju
Go to http://www.adsense.com/
Realy great explanation! Thanks a lot. At first it wouldn’t work because I already changed the number at stpe 4 :_)
Thanks!
I prefer to code these things in as well. Your guide was nice and easy to follow and I’m using it with one of my sites now.
@Geek
Your welcome buddy…
How to display this ad after 1 post but ONLY ON HOME PAGE not on older entries
Can you help me with that
Hi, I’ve added the ad below the first post only, but I would like to center the entire ad block… can someone please help? thanks.
@Peter Pan -
I am not sure. But try adding the tag
@Deepak Jain - hi, what tag? sorry i dont know anything about html…thx
@Peter Pan -
center tag.
@Peter Pan -
Just surround adsense codes with a DIV or P tag with attribute align=”center”
What if you want to have an add come up every three post. Not three posts consecutively. I want my long banner ad to come up every other three posts.
@Troy Steuwer -
In above code, in step 9
Yep… It can be done!
replace line:
< ?php if ($adcount == 1) : ?>
with line:
< ?php if ( $adcount % 3 == 1 ) :?>
@Rahul Bansal - You rock my world. Thanks!
@Rahul Bansal - Hey, FYI, all of your code and instructions don’t work with 2.7
Can you update it?
oops, nvm, wrong platform
Wait, no it’s not. This is for WordPress and not Blogger, correct? I tried doing exactly what this page says to do in WordPress 2.7. It doesn’t work, in fact, it just crashes the page. Can you update it for 2.7?
Got it to work, nvm. Sorry for so many posts ^_^
great tip for starters!! I have something very similar in my website, adsense blog after every post
@Troy Steuwer -
Btw thanks for confirming above code to be working with Wordpress 2.7. 
Its ok…
Thanks for the post, I tweaked your example so I could add individual ads to each post on the index page (more ads than just Adsense). Following your instructions, use the following in step 9 to specify ads in the first four posts:
If you use WPads, you’ll understand how to add more “ad spaces”. Then you just need to add more elseif statements to show the ads.
@Colby
Can you repost codes with HTML entities escaped.
Wordpress stripped out all code changes form your comments.
Great :), I was searching for a way to do this. It was easy to implement.
hi i add this code to my self hosted wp blog but only showing ads in 1st post ,m alredy changed 1 to 3,plz help me:(
@t.j detwiler
Crosscheck each step again. This works well for sure!
plz chk my index.php and add the code,m unable to do it.
here is my index.php along with ad code,teenstarsworld.com/demo/plz.zip
can u plz tell me what i m doing wrong herer is the code
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plz somebody help me
Does this code only work with adsense, can I use it with any code.
for example if I want to use my own ads instead do I need to do anything special?
@t.j detwiler
Link is broken: teenstarsworld.com/demo/plz.zip
@kapil
R u sure that you have posted right code in comments?
Please check ur comment as I think your codes has been stripped by Wordpress.
@Sean
U can put anything instead of Adsense code.
Hiya, i have seen your site when searching a few weeks ago and i really love the design! I just bought a new 3 character domain (cost me a packet) for a niche review blog, and i was wondering if your design is a free or paid one? I’m new to Wordpress and about to set it up, and i would really like to get something with a similar look to yours. Any ideas where i could download or buy something similar? Thanks for your help!
@Max
Sorry for late reply buddy.
We provide theme design service for our clients.
Details are here.
really useful tips..thanks a lot!
hey thx for the info…it was great…can u please tell that whether the text of the adsense by following this method, would automatically be the same as that of the original post. cuz i want it to be in verdana
Thanks
Amy
@Amy
You can control ads font from AdSense panel.
Thanks for the tutorials on inserting adsense in your wordpress..this was really helpful now.maybe i can actually make some money with it
@RLShaw
Welcome To Devils Workshop!
Thanks for the handy tutorial Rahul! I’ve been looking to insert ad images after the first *and* fourth posts, and your code helped out. Cheers.