{"id":116,"date":"2009-10-26T14:48:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T14:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=116"},"modified":"2009-10-26T15:01:24","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T15:01:24","slug":"wordpress-theme-adwords-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/2009\/wordpress-theme-adwords-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Theme – AdWords ready ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh Yes! Of course I want my WordPress theme to be AdWords and Widget ready. But hang-on what does it actually mean.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Well, widget ready seems to mean widgets can be added to the side bar using a simple click and drag interface.\u00a0 If it’s not “Widget Ready” widgets can still be added by\u00a0adding code to the .PHP files.\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0theme I’m using isn’t widget ready so, for now, I’ll leave the subject\u00a0of widgets. When I’ve delved in to the .PHP I’ll come back to it.<\/p>\n

AdWord Ready<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0– The theme I’ve got has AdWords already displayed. Always on the lefthand sidebar, on single posts there’s a box in actual text, on the home page there’s a “Link Unit” etc.\u00a0 AdWords came up as soon as I activated the theme.<\/p>\n

Something to change straight away<\/strong>. The AdSense Publisher ID used is the theme designers so any revenue will go straight to the designer not myself.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

A quick look at how the AdWords are included –<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Each AdWords position in the blog has its own .PHP file . These files includes the code that AdSense generates when you create an advert. For more about the code check out Google AdSense<\/a>.\u00a0 Note: AdWords is for advertisers, AdSense is for Publishers.<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. PHP section files call up the AdSense PHP File<\/li>\n
  3. The PHP page files then calls up the PHP section – you then have a page with AdWords displayed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The AdWords are mentioned in the CSS stylesheet but only with the instruction to add a margin at the bottom.<\/p>\n

    For me to have my own AdSense adverts with revenue coming to me, I had two options.<\/p>\n

    1.\u00a0 Just change the Publisher ID code in the AdSense .PHP files. The Adword format would not change but the revenue would come to me.<\/p>\n

    2. Create new adverts through AdSense to match my revised theme. The procedure in AdSense generates a few lines of code that can be copied and pasted in to the relevant AdSense .PHP\u00a0 files.<\/p>\n

    I went for the second option and soon had it sorted. I just had to make sure the new Adverts where the same size as the old ones.<\/p>\n

    Now I’m at a stage where I’m happy, for now, with the look and function of the blog.\u00a0 It’s time to get a few pages sorted on the Web Site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Oh Yes! Of course I want my Wordpress theme to be AdWords and Widget ready. But hang-on what does it actually mean. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[43,42,38,15,39,19],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ido-digitalmarketing-stuff","tag-adsense","tag-adwords","tag-basic","tag-beginner","tag-themes","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}