Hi to who ever has taken an intrest in this topic.
The reason i am posting here is because i am in need of help wih my wordpress site, i have a couple questions in which i hope some one can help me with.
1) How can i make a widget, i need one that displays the latest posts from my ipb forum or how can i add an include to display the latest posts in the side bar(s)
2) How can i add google adsense in the top of the middle section of my wordpress site, above all the posts etc..
I want it so its directly under the banner if possible?
Any help will be greatlly appreciated!
Kindest regards, Ben
The best way of coding a widget is to take an existing one and use it as a shell to build your own code in.
Google ads under the banner - Edit the header and put it in there. You may need to edit the stylesheet to change a few sizes. If you want to put it in various templates then you might be better off coding it as a chunk of php. This is the php code I've got and then I do an include in the header. Note that it tweaks some of the colours to match the ads to the header :
<?php
// Get the template name
$x=explode('themes/',get_bloginfo('template_url'));
// Set up the defaults.
$gadwidth=728;
$gadheight=90;
$gadcolbor = "FFFFFF";
$gadcolbg = "FFFFFF";
$gadcolli = "0000FF";
$gadcolte = "000000";
$gadcolurl = "008000";
switch ($x[1]) {
case "batavia":
$gadcolbg="CCCC99";
break;
case "anarchy":
$gadcolbg="000000";
$gadcolte ="FFFFFF";
$gadcolurl = "FFFFFF";
break;
case "blue-moon-10":
$gadcolbg="1C2023";
break;
case "flex":
$gadcolbg ="404040";
break;
case "radmod":
$gadcolbg ="000000";
break;
case "steam":
$gadcolbg ="73a0c5";
break;
case "quentin":
$gadcolbg ="F2E2C1";
break;
}
$full_code="<script type="text/javascript"><!--n google_ad_client = "pub-4296098225870941";n google_ad_width = ".$gadwidth.";n google_ad_height = ".$gadheight.";n g
oogle_ad_format = "".$gadwidth."x".$gadheight."_as"; google_ad_type = "text_image";n google_ad_channel ="7151759043";n google_color_bg = "".$gadcolbg."";n google
_color_border = "".$gadcolbg."";n google_color_link = "".$gadcolbg."";n google_color_text = "".$gadcolbg."";n google_color_url = "".$gadcolbg."";n//--></script>
n <script type="text/javascript" n src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">n</script>n";
print $full_code;
?>
thanx mate, really appreciated i thought it would be more complicated then that ;)
In regards to the widget/plugin will it work if i just put in a php include?
for the Widget you just put it in the muplugins folder as long as you have the widget plugin installed or the latest version of WordPress MU from SVN.
BTW - don't forget to change the Google account id in the code ... or I'll get all the money ;)
i have the latest version of wordpress, 2.2 i think it is.
In regards to the code ive already changed that ;)
I just want to include this
<?php include("http://www.bikerforumz.com/latest_posts.php");?>
into the side bar, pref at the top of the collum if possible. if you could give me a point in the right direction i would very much appreciate it.
I would be more then happy to link back to your site in return, if you have one.
I have about 18 sites in total which i will be using it on.
Thanx again, you have been a great help so far!
Any help would be very appreciated, thanx.
Honestly if you're just doing an include, just open the sidebar.php file you're wanting to edit and include it after something like this:
<?php /* Widgetized sidebar, if you have the plugin installed. */
if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Custom Sidebar') ) : ?>
What theme are you using, I may be able to tell you exactly what line #
you know this thread is five months old, right?
And that widgets are now in the core bundle?
Lol, no I didn't realize that, since I did find this post on google :P
