WP Bliss. Using the Ad space

In an earlier post I showed you how to use Feedburner with the Wordpress theme WP Bliss.  But that is not the only thing that I knew I needed to change when I chose to use this theme for TRF.  I needed to update the 3 100×100 Ad boxes on the right sidebar. The author has done a wonderful job leaving space but to take advantage of it you will need to make some minor edits to the theme.

Don’t worry, this change is easy, and only requires one changes to one file.   This single file is named "sidebar_featured.php".     Once you have the file loaded in your text editor, you should see the following 3 lines.

<a href="#"><img src="&lt;?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>/images/thumb1.gif"></img></a>

<a href="#"><img src="&lt;?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>/images/thumb2.gif"></a>

<a href="#"><img src="&lt;?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>/images/thumb3.gif"></img></a>

These 3 lines represent the 3 100×100 boxes that are made available for ads.  Since I only wanted to show a single ad, I deleted the placeholder content.  As a note, the second line is missing a "</img>" tag.    In my example, I don’t use any of this code, but if you choose to use all 3 boxes you will want to correct the HTML code and properly close the tag.  

I use Google adsense to monetize this blog and for the space in question I chose to use a referral ad.  I made my selections in Adsense and copied provided HTML script code to the file.   After saving it and uploading it up to my theme’s directory on the server, my ads soon started to appear.

As I stated earlier, this customization is an easy one.  Replace the placeholder HTML code with your ad network code and you are off to the races, just make sure to close your tags and don’t make it wider than the column.