AdSense Widget for WordPress Sidebar
April 1st, 2006
This is a Google AdSense widget I designed for the new WordPress Sidebar Widgets plug-in.
However, as a loyal reader has lovingly pointed out, if you want AdSense or any other kind of JavaScript component added to your sidebar all you need to do is paste it inside the standard Text Widgets that come built-in with Automattic's Sidebar Widgets plugin!
Unbelievably easy! And all this work for nothing. However, for fun I have left the original plugin up here in case you were interested in how I made the plugin.
Thanks to the people at Automattic, it is easy to install and requires no coding or template modification.
The Color, size and h2 title of your AdSense widget are all fully customizable from within the WordPress Presentations tab. No joke!
Requires:
Wordpress Sidebar Widgets Plugin
Download:
Here are the installation instructions...
Installation:
- Unzip and upload to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory
- Activate the plugin from inside WordPress (Plugins tab)
- Drag AdSense widget to your sidebar from inside WordPress (Presentation tab > Sidebar Widgets)
- Click the configuration icon and enter your google_ad_client ID
- Optional: customize the color, size, and sidebar h2 title
That's it! Enjoy.
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April 25th, 2006 at 02:47 AM
Great! It would be even more powerful if it could be configured to not show ads depending on the current referred; eg. only show ads to people who have been referred by a website.
April 25th, 2006 at 15:52 PM
Everything looks good, but seems to break under PHP5. It's the array_merge() function, which broke a couple of my scripts when upgrading. I had to change line #78 from: $options = array_merge(widget_adsense_options(), get_option('widget_adsense')); to: $wadsense = get_option('widget_adsense'); $options = array_merge(widget_adsense_options(), array($wadsense)); And then everything worked fine. - Sean
April 19th, 2006 at 14:59 PM
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June 11th, 2006 at 08:41 AM
Hi The widget works fine, but it won't work when I have the Adsense-Deluxe (http://www.acmetech.com/blog/adsense-deluxe/) plugin activated. Any solution? G
June 11th, 2006 at 15:44 PM
Google limits you to a maximum of 3 AdSense blocks on a single page. If you embed AdSense code into your templates, this counts against the 3 unit maximum, and sometimes Google simply doesn’t have enough ads for your content, so you’ll get empty space in your pages unless you use AdSense’s features for showing alternate ads or folding the empty blocks. If my plugin doesn't work, try using those Text Widgets I mentioned above, instead. Also remember: the more AdSense ads you display on the page, the cheaper ads you get.
June 26th, 2006 at 23:49 PM
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July 5th, 2006 at 15:22 PM
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July 11th, 2006 at 03:30 AM
your widget rawks......
July 12th, 2006 at 21:39 PM
i'm getting this error when i put the adsense widget into the sidebar Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in /wp-content/plugins/widgets/adsense.php on line 78 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /wp-content/plugins/widgets/adsense.php on line 96
July 17th, 2006 at 20:26 PM
Works great for me, but right now the ads are showing in Spanish!
July 23rd, 2006 at 15:22 PM
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July 24th, 2006 at 17:51 PM
I've noticed one minor issue: If there is space, the ad unit will be put on the same line as the H2.
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September 20th, 2006 at 05:44 AM
i’m getting this error when i put the adsense widget into the sidebar Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in /wp-content/plugins/widgets/adsense.php on line 78 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /wp-content/plugins/widgets/adsense.php on line 96 ----------------------------------------------- i'v got the same problem with u
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September 29th, 2006 at 19:34 PM
At my site: www.casarodante.org, I had a problem of Adsense showing ads in Italian. In researching it, it appears that you can override Adsense's detection with: google_language = "en"; I simply added: 'google_language' => "en", to the end of the array in this widget and it appears to be working great! FYI
October 1st, 2006 at 20:02 PM
Hey I am using this on my precharge projectnet blog. I love it! It's nice and easy to use but I have one question is there any way to make the border of the ads blend. Say put it inside a sticknote or something of that nature. Thank You
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October 12th, 2006 at 04:00 AM
this looks interesting. love to implement it on my blog.
October 20th, 2006 at 01:33 AM
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