I’m adding affiliate links to some of my blog posts and wondering how people are disclosing affiliate links or other sponsored content using Newspaper. A search of this forum showed a feature request, and a workaround to create an author called “Sponsored Content” or add the sponsored content information to the existing author profile / author box.
I’m looking to include a disclaimer (e.g. “May contain sponsored links or content, see disclaimer”) near the top of the article without having to modify every post. I’m hoping to be able to do this without modifying the theme files directly.
I’m sure there are many people doing this already. How are you disclosing affiliate links or sponsored content for your site without putting it directly in the post body?
Has anyone tried using one of the ad slots, e.g. putting your disclaimer in the “article-top-ad” box?
Make a custom post type, add the text to custom single post template; then on sponsored posts use that custom post type of “sponsored” … kind of need to use plugin, or “roll your own”…
Trick is that a lot of news portals are against the concept, while others are 100% sponsored spam content; and then the ones in the middle are setting it up for themselves based on what they are trying to do.
You also have to deal with making the sponsored post ‘sticky’ on front page if in middle of organic content stream, which is a bit like injecting ad in middle of a query loop for all posts …
So – might be plugin to do this, but CPTs are most likely method.
(( I don’t work here … ))
