{"id":146,"date":"2007-11-14T12:04:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T17:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/14\/bluehost-random-ad-code\/"},"modified":"2009-08-14T15:16:27","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T20:16:27","slug":"bluehost-random-ad-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/14\/bluehost-random-ad-code\/","title":{"rendered":"BlueHost Affilliate Random Ad Code for WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"

BlueHost Affiliate Program members can place BlueHost ads on their WordPress blogs using the standard code on BlueHost’s Affiliate Links page, but what if you’d like to show a variety of images to help combat ad blindness? The following code selects a random ad image from a list and then injects that advertisement into your WordPress blog.<\/p>\n

\/\/<\/span>
\n<<\/span>DELETE_THESE_CAPSscript language=<\/span>"php"<\/span>><\/span>
\n\/\/<\/span>
\n\/\/ Your BlueHost Affiliate Account ID.<\/span>
\n$acctID<\/span> =<\/span> "pixelwit"<\/span>;<\/span>
\n\/\/<\/span>
\n\/\/ Text to be used if image not available.<\/span>
\n$altText<\/span> =<\/span> "Check Out BlueHost"<\/span>;<\/span>
\n\/\/<\/span>
\n\/\/ Link's title text.<\/span>
\n$titleText<\/span> =<\/span> "Quaity Site Hosting Solutions"<\/span>;<\/span>
\n\/\/<\/span>
\n\/\/<\/span>
\n\/\/<\/span>
\n\/\/ List of images to be rotated.<\/span>
\n$img<\/span>[<\/span>]<\/span> =<\/span> "125x125\/1.gif"<\/span>;<\/span>\/\/ Image directory and name.<\/span>
\n$trkCod<\/span>[<\/span>]<\/span> =<\/span> "blue"<\/span>;<\/span>\/\/ Tracking code to be associated with this image.<\/span>
\n\/\/<\/span>
\n$img<\/span>[<\/span>]<\/span> =<\/span> "125x125\/2.gif"<\/span>;<\/span>
\n$trkCod<\/span>[<\/span>]<\/span> =<\/span> "bluegreen"<\/span>;<\/span>
\n\/\/<\/span>
\n$img<\/span>[<\/span>]<\/span> =<\/span> "125x125\/3.gif"<\/span>;<\/span>
\n$trkCod<\/span>[<\/span>]<\/span> =<\/span> "bluegradient"<\/span>;<\/span>
\n\/\/<\/span>
\n$img<\/span>[<\/span>]<\/span> =<\/span> "180x150\/1.gif"<\/span>;<\/span>
\n$trkCod<\/span>[<\/span>]<\/span> =<\/span> "guy"<\/span>;<\/span>
\n\/\/<\/span>
\n$img<\/span>[<\/span>]<\/span> =<\/span> "180x150\/2.gif"<\/span>;<\/span>
\n$trkCod<\/span>[<\/span>]<\/span> =<\/span> "girl"<\/span>;<\/span>
\n\/\/<\/span>
\n$img<\/span>[<\/span>]<\/span> =<\/span> "125x240\/2.gif"<\/span>;<\/span>
\n$trkCod<\/span>[<\/span>]<\/span> =<\/span> "bluegreen125x240"<\/span>;<\/span>
\n\/\/<\/span>
\n\/\/<\/span>
\n\/\/<\/span>
\n\/\/ Pick a random image and build the link.<\/span>
\n$randI<\/span> =<\/span> rand<\/span>(<\/span>0<\/span>,<\/span> count<\/span>(<\/span>$img<\/span>)<\/span>-<\/span>1<\/span>)<\/span>;<\/span>
\n$txt1<\/span> =<\/span> "<a href='http:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/track\/"<\/span>.<\/span>$acctID<\/span>.<\/span>"\/"<\/span>;<\/span>
\n$txt2<\/span> =<\/span> "' title='"<\/span>.<\/span>$titleText<\/span>.<\/span>"' rel='nofollow'><img src='http:\/\/img.bluehost.com\/"<\/span>;<\/span>
\n$txt3<\/span> =<\/span> "' alt='"<\/span>.<\/span>$altText<\/span>.<\/span>"'><\/a>"<\/span>;<\/span>
\necho<\/span> $txt1<\/span>.<\/span>$trkCod<\/span>[<\/span>$randI<\/span>]<\/span>.<\/span>$txt2<\/span>.<\/span>$img<\/span>[<\/span>$randI<\/span>]<\/span>.<\/span>$txt3<\/span>;<\/span>
\n\/\/<\/span>
\n<\/script><\/span>
\n\/\/<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n

Here’s how to add random ads to your WordPress SideBar:<\/p>\n

    \n
  • Login to your WordPress administration panel.<\/li>\n
  • Navigate to “Presentation >>> Theme Editor”.<\/li>\n
  • Select the “Sidebar” theme file to begin editing it.<\/li>\n
  • Copy the contents of the Sidebar file and save it to a safe place (just in case).<\/li>\n
  • Determine where you want your ads to appear in the sidebar. *It will probably need to be inside “Unordered List” (ul) and “Line Item” (li) tags.<\/li>\n
  • Paste the above code into your sidebar file.<\/li>\n
  • Delete the text at the beginning of the code that says, “DELETE_THESE_CAPS”. (This text was placed in the code so it would display properly on this blog.)<\/li>\n
  • Change the $acctID variable from “pixelwit” to your BlueHost Affiliate ID. <\/li>\n
  • Change the $altText and $titleText variables to suit your taste.<\/li>\n
  • Use information from the BlueHost Affiliate Links page to edit the list of images. You can use as many or as few images as you like.<\/li>\n
  • Once satisfied with the changes you’ve made, press the “Update File” button to save your modified sidebar file.<\/li>\n
  • View your site and make sure everything works as expected.<\/li>\n
  • If you have any problems, restore your Sidebar file using the text saved in step #4.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    You can see this code at work in the bottom right corner of this blog. Refreshing the browser will probably display a different random BlueHost ad.<\/p>\n

    Let me know if you find this article useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Tutorial explaining how to add a simple ad rotator to your WordPress blog, using BlueHost affiliate links as an example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[19,20],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-development","tag-bluehost","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}