Hello Bas,
thank you for subscribing to ochAddAds, let me walk you through the process.
in the plugin you need to [plugin tab]:
- Enable the plugin
- Enable Google AdSense = yes
then in [Ad Codes tab], you need to configure one (or more) ad codes. These are basically the codes you get from the Google AdSense portal (assuming you have that validated and configured):
- login to
Google AdSence
- in left sidebar select 'Ads'
- switch to tab 'By Ad Unit'
- under heading 'Existing ad units' click on the <> and copy the code snippet (this has content of '<script>...</script><ins>...</ins><script>...</script>'
- Goto ochAddAds configuration [Ad Codes tab]
- Enter a unique Ad Code ID, e.g. 'in-article-01'
- in field Ad Code paste the <ins>....</ins> part for the code copied in step 4. So do not copy the <script> parts, only the <ins>
Manual Placement of ads in your content:
You can now add the following tag in e.g. an article or custom html module: {ochaddads id="in-article-01"} and when visiting the article or page this tag will be replaced with the Google ad that is served by AdSence (note: it can take a while for Google to start serving an ad), the id in the tag is the id set in step 6.
Auto Placement:
Here you can add the tag in one of the Joomla predefined positions, the tag will then be automatically injected in the position (in articles).
In advanced settings you can turn on debug, this will show verbose information in the browser console and will also add (additional) log information in the plugins logfile.
My advice is to start with the manual placement on a (test) article and get that to work, if that works you can work with other features.
Does this help to get you started?
If you run into issues please provide me with a front-end url (and turn debug on) so I can see if I can troubleshoot for you.
regards,
Ruud.
