discourse-adsense

Google AdSense plugin for Discourse forum

Installation

• Run bundle exec rake plugin:install repo=http://github.com/discoursehosting/discourse-adsense in your discourse directory

• In development mode, run bundle exec rake assets:clean

• In production, recompile your assets: bundle exec rake assets:precompile

• Restart Discourse

• Minimum Discourse version: v0.9.9.3

Usage

• Go to Admin -> Settings -> AdSense

• Enter your AdSense publisher ID (ca-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)

• Create new ad slots within your AdSense account (728x90 for desktop, 320x50 for mobile)

• Copy the slot id # numbers (ten digits shown in the ID column) in the Discourse settings

• Enable the slots you want to use

• Remember to watch extra whitespace at the beginning and end of each field.

• You can use the 'adsense_through_trust_level' to disable ads for users above a certain trust level.

• 0 only shows to users that are not logged in
• 1 shows ads to users that are not logged in, and to new and basic users
• 2 shows ads to regular users as well, but not to leaders and elders
• 3 shows ads to everyone but elders
• 4 shows ads to everyone including elders

License

GPL v2