Howto add adsense ads to Elgg user blog/s
I wanted to add
google adsense on
my Elgg powered experimental social
network mockateacher.com
There are plenty of ways described which enables a user to add a
google adsense code to elgg, however none of the ones I've red
online worked for me for my
elgg site user blog
section
One of the promising ways to add the adsense code to all sections
of an elgg enpowered website is described to be achieved through
Elgg Google Adverts in the spotlight plugin.
I gave this suggested method for adsense inclusion to elgg by
installing and setting it up but it worked not.
There was a blog which described a procedure which gaves a
possibility the adsense code to be embedded on every user
dashboard's right widget right below the elgg's
Edit
Page
This method seems to work but wasn't exactly enabling me to place
google advertisements only on the elgg's blogs and therefore was
useless to me.
Thus I played a bit with the files in the
mod/blog located
under the elgg's install root directory and hooray I found out a
way to add my
adsense code to my elgg user blog
section.
Here is how:
1. Edit the file
mod/blog/views/default/blog/object/blog.php
In the file look for the line:
<div class="blog_post">
This is located nearbly
line 51 in the file on my elgg
version 1.7.7, with latest available blog plugin at this time, on
prior version this might be located on different line.
After this line just place your Adsense code obtained from your
Adsense Google account and you're done.
The google adsense advertisements will start appearing in the head
of your elgg's users blog pages ;)