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Hi, has anyone thought of making a plugin for putting adsense in stories?

My idea for such a plugin is this:

There's a separate admin page where you can put in your adsense code as block 1, block 2 etc.
Then you can simply call them in the story, like with images. Like [adsense_1].

I probably know enough php to do this, but I'd feel safer running the code of someone who knows what they're doing.

If you allow Geeklog to parse instead of filter the javascript and other tags (in config.php) you can put the adsense code in a story.

But do remember that the Adsense TOS allow you only 3 Adsense blocks per page, so you have to take care about that.

Perhaps it's easier to put the code in a static page and put this static page as a centerblock just below the featured article.

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See, that's a problem I discovered when I was poking around in the templates: GL uses the same template for the preview of the story and the main story site. Therefore I thought of doing the [adsense_1] thing and putting it in the main text, instead of in the template.

And I the ratio of my hits is about 5/1 for individual articles over the frontpage, so the static page won't do.

What I want to do is put one right at the end of the story, just before the what's related links, and if the article is really long, I want to put one about 50% through.

I will try to make a plugin like this, but it will probably take a while since I need to brush up on my php... If anyone is interested do leave a note. I'll definitely need someone to look over the code for security problems...

Or is there an obvious way to do this already?

Sorry, missed your first line. I tried allowing javascript for admin in the admin_html part, but I couldn't get it to work correctly, parts of the code was still disappearing.

And wouldn't it be more elegant doing an [adsense_bottom] instead of pasting in the code in each individual article..?

Putting an Adsense block inside a story so that it looks like a normal content is not allowed bij the Adsense TOS, so why put up a lot of work for something that you might regret??

You can use Adsense in a lots of easy and correct ways:

* Sideblocks: just paste the code in a block.
* Centre column, top/bootom of the page: paste the code in an static page.
* Centre column above the stories: paste the code in header.thtml or featuredstorytext.html**.
* Centre column below the first story: paste the code in featuredstorytext.html**.
* In a fourth column: make an extra column in footer.thtml an paste the code.



** Set config.php to render each first story as a featured story

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