Manual – Code-Snippets

Explains how to use the advanced-ads-content-injection-nodes-without-ads filter to exclude certain elements from ad injection.

Code examples on how to move the output of the Custom Code option above the ad or how to manipulate it on the fly.

By default, Advanced Ads sets the available ad weight for ads in groups to 10. This number increases if the amount of ads in the group is higher. You can also add your own ad weight maximum using the code below. /** * Increase available ad weight in group settings * uses 100 if regular […]

By default, Advanced Ads comes with “Ad Groups” as the only taxonomy. If you need further options to group ads then you can build that using the code below as a basis. I built that as a custom job for a client to allow grouping ads by a “company” taxonomy. Since it is a bit […]

Some users might want to change the div container Advanced Ads uses for ad placeholders in Advanced Ads Pro cache-busting or when some output options like a margin are selected. The code below changes the div into an article container. Please notice that this could break some other part in Advanced Ads, especially JavaScript-based ad placements. […]

You can add your own placement to Advanced Ads. The example below does that for a specific action hook. You can adjust it according to your own purpose. Just change the ADVADS_CUSTOM_HOOK_PLACEMENT_HOOK_NAME to any action hook you want to show the ads in. The whole code from below can go into a new PHP file which […]

If you are using our advanced JavaScript functions to retrieve or store cookies on a website that loads the jQuery library in the footer, you might be interested in the following code snippets. The first part is an example of how to show the number of page impressions from the appropriate cookie. The second snippet shows […]

Advanced Ads removes custom meta boxes on the ad edit screen. This is needed, because sometimes, plugin authors forgot to specify that their particular meta box is only meant for publish post types, like posts and pages. Users then might have seen an SEO-related box on the ad pages, which neither worked nor made sense. […]

The following code allows you to block specific user agents or referrers from being tracked with the Tracking add-on. It was written for a very specific use case in mind but can still serve you as a basis to implement your own, custom filter.