If you run a wordpress blog that has multiple contributors and would like to award contributors by sharing adsense earnings, read on.
Follow these simple steps
Step 1: Create an adsense channel for each author.
Step 2: Create ads (in adsense) and assign them under the specific author channel. Note the slot id for each ads.
Step 2: Add this code in your wordpress theme’s functions.php file (replace author1/author2 with author names, and slot id with author’s slot id)
function adsense_code($author) {
if($author == 'author1')
return '<slot id_author1>';
elseif ($author == 'author2')
return '<slot id_author1>';
else // default author
return '<slot id_admin>';
}
Step 3: Depending on where you want to showcase the ads, insert your adsense code (ensure that all the ad formats are same)
google_ad_client = "pub-id";
google_ad_slot = "< ?php echo adsense_code(get_the_author()); ?>";
Explanation/How this works?
What you have done is that
- For each ad format, you assigned an ad slot to each of your authors.
- Based on author’s slot id (which is picked up by the function), author’s ads will be shown on the site and earnings can easily be reported on the corresponding channel.
- Note that author name in the function adsense_code is same as author’s display name (if you want, you can use author id as well).
Simple? Got questions? Leave them in the comment section.
