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How to Display Adsense Ads in the Wordpress Index Pages for Fresh News by WooThemes – Part 2

This tutorial is continued from Part 1. Summary of Code Changes to index.php The index.php file is the theme template that displays the Featured Posts and Post Summaries (Excerpts) to paint the body of the Front Page and Index Pages. Source code logic is added to index.php to display the Google Adsense Ads at the appropriate position [...]

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How to Display Adsense Ads in the Wordpress Index Pages for Fresh News by WooThemes – Part 1

This tutorial explains how to display Google Adsense Ads in your Wordpress post index pages to generate revenue from this prime area of web page real estate. Revenue Opportunity for Front- and Index Page Ads I use the Fresh News 2.0.7 theme by WooThemes for the primary look and feel of www.handymanhowto.com and wanted to display the [...]

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Google Custom Search Integration with WooThemes Fresh News 2.0 – Part 2

This tutorial is continued from Part 1. Create a Search Results Page Template A new Wordpress page template is created to display the Google Custom Search Results. The standard page.php template is formatted with a center column to display the page content that’s designed for a sidebar; and therefore too narrow for the 600 pixel wide Google [...]

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Google Custom Search Integration with WooThemes Fresh News 2.0 – Part 1

Newly revised and updated for Fresh News 2.0! I wanted to replace the WordPress search engine with the Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) for better results and to take advantage of Adsense for Search. While there are several CSE integration tutorials for WordPress and even a plugin, none specifically addressed Woo Themes. My efforts were further [...]

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