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8:13 pm
May 10, 2011
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Financial Samurai
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Hi Folks,
Just letting you know that I found a useful plugin called "Widget Context." The widget basically allows you to decide where the widget will show up on your blog. This is useful b/c I've found that many advertisers would like to advertise on the "homepage only" or "site-wide".
Instead of manually going through the code, which I have no idea, once the Widget Context plugin is installed, you will see a menu in each widget at the bottom asking what you'd like to do.
As you grow your blog, you will undoubtedly encounter more of these requests from advertisers. Having this flexibility will boost your revenue in the long run.
Best,
Sam
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Sam
Financial Samurai - Helping you achieve financial freedom sooner, rather than later.
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9:33 pm
May 10, 2011
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The College Investor
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Very useful plugin. You would be surprised as to how picky advertisers are on making sure their links are only displayed in certain areas!
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6:35 am
May 11, 2011
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Kay Lynn Akers
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That's the one I use. I also use it to vary the affiliate ads by page.
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7:13 am
May 11, 2011
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My Personal Finance Journey
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Sounds like a great plugin! Getting ads to show up home page only on the Blogger platform is also pretty easy. Email me if any one has any questions!
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3:26 pm
May 11, 2011
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Buy Like Buffett
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6:36 am
May 12, 2011
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Frugal Confessions
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Great info Sam! I am currently trying to figure out how to get an advertiser's widget ad only on the homepage (I used a code, but her ad is still showing up on a few pages). Thanks!
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8:23 am
May 12, 2011
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Miss T @ Prairie Eco-Thrifter
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I have been using this for a while now and it does work really well. In fact, you can use for anything, not just ads., billboards, etc. too. Thanks Sam for bringing this up since I forgot.
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8:50 am
May 12, 2011
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Eric – PersonalProfitability.com
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I use Widget Logic for the same purpose, but it requires a small bit of code knowledge. You just put in the code wrapper for how you want it to show up (homepage, certain pages only, etc) and it inserts it into the widget HTML/PHP at the right place.
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9:28 am
May 12, 2011
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Financial Samurai
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Glad some had found this useful. Any other useful must use widgets please share!
Thx
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Sam
Financial Samurai - Helping you achieve financial freedom sooner, rather than later.
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10:44 am
May 12, 2011
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Mike – Saving Money Today
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Widget Contect is a great plugin…very handy. A couple others I use are…
Why Do Work – allows you to choose who sees your ads based on type of page, age of post, etc.
GoCodes – use it to set up redirects for affiliate links, makes it easy to adjust links across the whole site
WP-Greet box – encourages new visitors to sign up for your RSS feed
SRG Clean Archives – one of my favorites…lets you create a one-page directory of all your posts. Great for for both usability and SEO
SexyBookMarks – add social media icons to the bottom of each post to encourage your readers to spread the word.
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12:03 pm
May 12, 2011
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Loving the widget context plug in. Thanks for sharing.
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1:50 pm
May 12, 2011
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I use TS Custom Widgets, which will allow you to set widgets down to the post or page level for super-serious control. It'll spin you for a logic loop at first, but once you get the hang of it it works really well.
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6:50 am
May 13, 2011
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Frugal Confessions said:
Great info Sam! I am currently trying to figure out how to get an advertiser's widget ad only on the homepage (I used a code, but her ad is still showing up on a few pages). Thanks!
I use this code to place ads on the home page only and it seems to really do so:
<?php if (is_home() && !is_paged()) { ?>
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5:56 pm
May 13, 2011
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Khaleef @ KNS Financial
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Thanks Sam!
I always wondered how people were able to do "homepage only" links! I'll install it in case an advertiser requests it.
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6:27 am
May 15, 2011
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Kay Lynn Akers
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Do you put this code in the widget or on a page?
Jackie said:
I use this code to place ads on the home page only and it seems to really do so:
<?php if (is_home() && !is_paged()) { ?>
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9:09 am
May 15, 2011
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics
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Kay Lynn, I do this using code too and for you (or any thesis users) that code Jackie had and your ad code should go in the custom_functions.php file.
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9:15 am
May 15, 2011
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I have a PHP code widget I use. Here is the code I place in it to make it be home page only:
<?php if (is_home() && !is_paged()) { ?>
HTML code goes in here
<?php }?>
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6:49 am
May 16, 2011
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Jackie
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Post edited 6:50 am – May 16, 2011 by Jackie
Kay Lynn Akers said:
Do you put this code in the widget or on a page?
Jackie said:
I use this code to place ads on the home page only and it seems to really do so:
<?php if (is_home() && !is_paged()) { ?>
I don't use the "Widget Context" plugin. I just used the code in my existing widgets right before the ad. Then after the ad I put the ending code for php, which I think was <?php } ?>
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