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Adding Adverts Q

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9:25 am
May 2, 2010


sophieamelia

New Member

posts 2

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Hi there, I'm not terribly experienced with WordPress and still learning
basics. I have the Flexibility theme for my website which works well.
However, I want to add adverts to my site – I don't mean Google ads -
but the set of boxes that are often seen. I plan to approach specific
companies so need to be able to dictate the ads.  Do I need to download a plug-in?  I've had a look at adserve – no longer working, and advertising-manager plug-in which seems popular but it requires an ad network code – and I don't think that is what I'm trying to do?  If there isn't a plug in, is there some means of encorporating this advert space through adding code to the theme?  Or does it mean I need to change my theme to get one that
has ad boxes?  I would like to put the add boxes/space on the sidebar.  Alternatively, is there something a lot simpler that I don't know about? i.e getting a logo off a company, uploading it and displaying it with a hyperlink in a text box? Apologies for not being savvy on WordPress!

Thank you

Sophie

http://tajiktourism.com/

9:25 am
May 10, 2010


Ryan

Admin

posts 1547

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Unless you're selling a lot of ads that need rotated, I'd just insert them using a text widget.

You could use code something like this:

<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5">
<tr>
<td align="center"><a href="#"><img src="full-file-url" /></a></td>
<td align="center"><a href="#"><img src="full-file-url" /></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center"><a href="#"><img src="full-file-url" /></a></td>
<td align="center"><a href="#"><img src="full-file-url" /></a></td>
</tr>
</table>

Just replace the 'a href' with the link for the ad and the 'full-file-url' with the full URL to your ad image you upload into WordPress.

This would create a 2x2 ad block that you could use in the top sidebar.