How to add ads in category pages

Hi,

I have setup ads in sidebar and have setup Ad inline code in Ads section which displays ad within content & on homepage, I have created an ad element though unable to do the same in Category pages. How can I setup inline ads in category pages i.e. after 4-6 articles, there is an ad & then rest of the articles follow.

Thanks Lucian !! I copied the loop.php to child theme folder, added the code as advised, setup Custom ad 1 & it works just fine !! 🙂

Lucian, did i get you right that if i need to show the ad after each post i have to duplicate part of the code and change adcounter? Like this

if (is_category() && ($adcounter == 1)) {
echo do_shortcode(‘[td_ad_box spot_id=”custom_ad_1″]’);
}
if (is_category() && ($adcounter == 2)) {
echo do_shortcode(‘[td_ad_box spot_id=”custom_ad_1″]’);
}
if (is_category() && ($adcounter == 3)) {
echo do_shortcode(‘[td_ad_box spot_id=”custom_ad_1″]’);
}

UPD. It doesn’t work like this so how can i show it after each post?

• This reply was modified 11 years by paulberrow.

Thank you!
It works, but partly. As i found out the thing is i use ads which have to have kind of unic id so one ad can’t be shown on the same page more then 1 time. So i had to add 3 scripts in the custom ad fields in theme panel and i’m run out of free fields now:)

Is there any way i can add more than 3 custom ads?

About ads in category between description and posts i still can’t figure out how to do it with do_shortcode() function… Could you please provide a bit more information?

For now i just added my ad script in file category.php after this
default:
echo td_page_generator::wrap_start();
?>
<div class=”span8 column_container”>
<?php
//load the author box located in – parts/page-category-slider.php – can be overwritten by the child theme
locate_template(‘parts/page-category-slider.php’, true);
?>
It shows up in the place i need, but i’m not sure if it’s right to do it this way..

Thank you in advance!

Trying to add Custom Ad 1 to the top of category pages and Custom Ad 2 to bottom of pages. Code for loop.php is helpful but links to screen shots referenced in Lucian’s first post above are not working. Is there another place to find them? Was able to use the “$adcounter = 0;” or “$adcounter == 2)” terms to add an ad after 10 articles. Wondering how to make an ad appear at the very top of the page (below nav bar and above breadcrumbs) as this is typically where we insert Super Leaderboard ads.

Thanks!

• This reply was modified 10 years by ninjaray.

Hi there,

i tried to put ads in the loop of only tag pages as described above with the ad counter. I need to show an ad after post 2 and 4. It only returns this on the tag page after the 2nd post exerpt: [td_block_ad_box spot_id="custom_ad_5"].

Could you please advice how i can achieve that? Or where exactly i have to put the shortcode or a php function to get it working?

Thanks in advance!

Hi Bogdan,

thanks for your help. I figured that changing the condition should do it. Unfortunately it didn’t work on my end.

On the tag page it returns [td_ad_box spot_id=”custom_ad_6″] after the specified post exerpt.

Here is the code in the loop.php:

if (have_posts()) {
while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
$adcounter++;
echo $td_template_layout->layout_open_element();

if (class_exists($td_module_class)) {
$td_mod = new $td_module_class($post);
echo $td_mod->render();
} else {
td_util::error(__FILE__, ‘Missing module: ‘ . $td_module_class);
}

echo $td_template_layout->layout_close_element();
$td_template_layout->layout_next();

if (is_tag() && ($adcounter == 2)) {
echo do_shortcode(‘[td_ad_box spot_id=”custom_ad_6″]’);
}

endwhile; //end loop
echo $td_template_layout->close_all_tags();

I just added custom ad 6 & 7 but tried it with custom ad 5 too. Also tried it with the Ad inserter plugin which didn’t work either. Their support told me to try it with a php function.

Can you find what’s wrong? Why doesn’t it work? Is there another way?

Really appreciate your help on this.

Thanks Bogdan! It seems to work altough i don’t see an ad yet…probably takes a bit.

What’s the code like if i need to display 2 ads? Lets say after the 2nd and 4th exerpt?

Do i need to repeat the if part?

if (is_tag() && ($adcounter == 2)) {
echo do_shortcode(‘[td_block_ad_box spot_id="custom_ad_1"]‘);
}

if (is_tag() && ($adcounter == 4)) {
echo do_shortcode(‘[td_block_ad_box spot_id="custom_ad_2"]‘);
}

Appreciate one last tip here.

Thank you!

Great Bogdan! Thanks a lot! Awesome support!

Thanks Luclan. The two screenshots expired. Can you send links to active screenshots?