Show adverts on your website

Showing adverts on your site is fairly easy. But will require some planning and measuring.

Always remember to place your adverts in a sensible manner and try to not overdo it. Too many adverts will slow down your website and drive visitors away.

With AdRotate you can add adverts pretty much everywhere on your site and the easiest ways are with Widgets, Blocks or Post Injection. Almost every theme supports Widgets and Blocks. And Post Injection goes between paragraphs of your blog posts or pages for example.

This allows you a great deal of freedom where you place your adverts without complicated changes.

Another widely supported method is to use Shortcodes. These are simple to use codes generated by AdRotate which you can place in your posts, pages, some post types and some text widgets or blocks.

Widgets and Blocks

Widgets and blocks are the most simple way to add adverts to a page this will be the preferred method for a lot of people. Simply drag the widget or block to the location you want it to show up and configure the advert or group ID.

Widget setup

Look for the AdRotate Advert or AdRotate Group widget and drag it to the location you want to show it in.

Using the AdRotate Block

In the block editor simply look for the AdRotate category or search for relevant keywords such as; banner, advert or adrotate.

Add the block to your layout where you want the adverts to show and in the block settings enter the Advert or Group ID before saving.

Using Shortcodes

Shortcodes work on Pages, Posts, some post types and in some widgets. A few themes also support shortcodes in their text widgets or text fields.

Examples:

Single advert:
[adrotate banner="12"]

Single inline advert (This advert has its wrapper div stripped):
[adrotate banner="4" wrapper="no"]

A random advert from a group:
[adrotate group="2"]

Multiple groups and a random advert from either group:
[adrotate group="4,12,5,2"]

Group with optional fallback override (Group 7, fall back on group 19):
[adrotate group="7" fallback="19"]

Group with optional weight override (Group 23, show only adverts with weight 4 or higher):
[adrotate group="23" weight="4"]

Cross site ads on a Multisite with a Developer License:
[adrotate group="7" site="yes"]

[adrotate banner="12" site="yes"]

Using PHP code

Caution: For advanced users only!

These do not work anywhere inside your WordPress dashboard but rather you edit theme files for this method.

Insert the following PHP code in index.php, page.php or single.php of your theme. Or anywhere where you want the banner to show. If you have custom templates or you now what you are doing you can insert the code in other files as well.

Examples:

Single advert:
echo adrotate_ad('1');

A random advert from a group:
echo adrotate_group('12');

Multiple groups and a random banner from either group:
echo adrotate_group('3,2,6');

Fallback override for a group (group 4, falls back on group 16):
echo adrotate_group('4', array('fallback' => '16'));

Weight override for a group (group 12, showing adverts with weight 8 or higher):
echo adrotate_group('12', array('weight' => '8'));

Cross site ads on a Multisite with a Developer License:
echo adrotate_group('4', array('site' => 'yes'));

echo adrotate_ad('4', array('site' => 'yes', 'wrapper' => 'no'));