15 Killer Hacks for WordPress that Are Extremely Useful

15. Display Ads after the First Post

Adding an ad after the post can get you really good money because advertisers really like that spot. It is one of the hot advertising spots. You can even place adsense there. But if you place as a normal code, an ad will be shown after each post which gets annoying for your users. Therefore using this hack, you can display ads after the first post.

Replace your current loop with this hacked version of the loop in your index.php







//Paste your ad code here






Now this code will show the ad after your second post. Make sure you insert your ad codes there.

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Rotating Adsense and Yahoo ads

Rotating Adsense and Yahoo ads.
Why are you randomly loading adsense and Yahoo ads on different pages?

I (not the original poster) do it to fight ad blindness.

My setup serves U.S. visitors adsense/YPN 50-50, and non-U.S. visitors adsense 100% of the time (because YPN forbids foreign traffic). Since about half of my site visitors are non-U.S., this all implies that adsense ads are served roughly 75% of the time, and YPN ads roughly 25% of the time.