How could I add my ad code after every 3rd blog post? I am trying to do this on the home page blog with masonry activated.
Example posted...
I just need the code to add to the loop and the code to make sure it fits in with Masonry (assuming it's just a class added to the div), the rest I can style on my own.
Hey Brad, sorry for the delay - this ticket was flagged by the support staff for my attention since it's a mod request.
From what i'm getting from the screenshot I think there's a much easier way to go about this. I would recommend simply using the masonry layout with sidebar and then filling up your sidebar widgets with ads - it effectively would work exactly the same. If you were concerned about the ads appearing on other pages that might use the sidebar as well you can sort that out with this plugin http://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-logic/
Please let me know if there's any reason this won't work or why you didn't opt for this method before thinking of the mod you requested.
It's all good. The reason why I was asking is, I would love to spread the ads out. Not have them all bunched up in the sidebar. I would like the sidebar to hold useful info as well.
Basically I'm pretty confident I can get masonry to work with the ads, so all I really need is the code that would integrate into the loop and to post the ad every 3 articles.
I've tried to use some of the methods shown here (same principle):
the methods listed in your URLs are indeed the way you would go about that - (checking if the current loop count is divisible by 3). Just make sure you're defining the $count variable right before to the loop to equal 0 and then adding $count++ into the bottom of the loop so that it can properly increment. Also the correct place to do this mod is going to be at the nectar_blog_processing function in the shortcode-processing.php file located in the nectar/tinymce directory :)
Alright. I know I didn't get to this until now, but I have been working on this and nothing I post in the shortcode-processing.php file in the nectar_blog_processing function shows up.
<?php global $more; $more = 0; if ( floatval(get_bloginfo('version')) < "3.6" ) { //old post formats before they got built into the core get_template_part( 'includes/post-templates-pre-3-6/entry', get_post_format() )
} else {
//WP 3.6+ post formats get_template_part( 'includes/post-templates/entry', get_post_format() ); } ?>
<?php $postnum++; if($postnum%4 == 0) { ?> My Ad Code would go here <?php } ?>
If you're not using a blog element inside of Visual Composer or through a nectar shortcode and are instead using actual posts page as defined in settings > reading - you'd need to make the mod in the index.php file :)
This maybe overstepping my bounds, and if it is I apologize. The last piece to the Masonry Google Ads puzzle is how do I infuse the added ad units into the masonry wall.
Attached shows the ads over the content. Granted, only one ad loaded (that is step 2 I need to take care of and think I have a work around for that.... it is a Google DFP instance issue).
How could I add my ad code after every 3rd blog post? I am trying to do this on the home page blog with masonry activated.
Example posted...
I just need the code to add to the loop and the code to make sure it fits in with Masonry (assuming it's just a class added to the div), the rest I can style on my own.
Hey Brad, sorry for the delay - this ticket was flagged by the support staff for my attention since it's a mod request.
From what i'm getting from the screenshot I think there's a much easier way to go about this. I would recommend simply using the masonry layout with sidebar and then filling up your sidebar widgets with ads - it effectively would work exactly the same. If you were concerned about the ads appearing on other pages that might use the sidebar as well you can sort that out with this plugin http://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-logic/
Please let me know if there's any reason this won't work or why you didn't opt for this method before thinking of the mod you requested.
Cheers :)
It's all good. The reason why I was asking is, I would love to spread the ads out. Not have them all bunched up in the sidebar. I would like the sidebar to hold useful info as well.
Basically I'm pretty confident I can get masonry to work with the ads, so all I really need is the code that would integrate into the loop and to post the ad every 3 articles.
I've tried to use some of the methods shown here (same principle):
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-clearing-div-to-every-third-post-in-the-loop
and here:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/inserting-ads-between-every-5th-post
they don't generally play well with Salient's loop (as in it kills the page).
Hey again! Hope you had a good Easter :)
the methods listed in your URLs are indeed the way you would go about that - (checking if the current loop count is divisible by 3). Just make sure you're defining the $count variable right before to the loop to equal 0 and then adding $count++ into the bottom of the loop so that it can properly increment. Also the correct place to do this mod is going to be at the nectar_blog_processing function in the shortcode-processing.php file located in the nectar/tinymce directory :)
Cheers
Alright. I know I didn't get to this until now, but I have been working on this and nothing I post in the shortcode-processing.php file in the nectar_blog_processing function shows up.
Here is the code I am using...
$postnum = 0;
if(have_posts()) : while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php
global $more;
$more = 0;
if ( floatval(get_bloginfo('version')) < "3.6" ) {
//old post formats before they got built into the core
get_template_part( 'includes/post-templates-pre-3-6/entry', get_post_format() )
} else {
//WP 3.6+ post formats
get_template_part( 'includes/post-templates/entry', get_post_format() );
} ?>
<?php $postnum++; if($postnum%4 == 0) { ?>
My Ad Code would go here
<?php } ?>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
Hey again!
If you're not using a blog element inside of Visual Composer or through a nectar shortcode and are instead using actual posts page as defined in settings > reading - you'd need to make the mod in the index.php file :)
This maybe overstepping my bounds, and if it is I apologize. The last piece to the Masonry Google Ads puzzle is how do I infuse the added ad units into the masonry wall.
Again, if this is asking too much I apologize.
Thanks for all your help.
Also, I already added the masonry classes to the ad code.
Here is what I have:
<div class="post ad masonry-blog-item isotope-item">
<div id='div-gpt-ad-numbers' style='width:300px; height:250px;'>
<script type='text/javascript'>googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1406997094655-3'); });</script>
</div>
</div>
Hey again,
Anyway I could check the page out live now? I tried to inspect it live at
http://www.hammerandnigel.com/ but it seems you may have moved the site
Cheers
I just switched it to the Shortcode-processing.php because I decided to customize the homepage.
The Ad code is now in place again and it appears that sometimes it loads correctly, other times it does not.
Is it because google DFP most likely loads after the content is in place?
Attached shows the ads over the content. Granted, only one ad loaded (that is step 2 I need to take care of and think I have a work around for that.... it is a Google DFP instance issue).
I overlooked in your last code snippet paste that you were using a div instead of an article - change your code to this:
<article class="post ad masonry-blog-item isotope-item"> <div id='div-gpt-ad-numbers' style='width:300px; height:250px;'> <script type='text/javascript'>googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1406997094655-3'); });</script> </div> </article>Perfect. Fixed it. I didn't even think about it.