Posted by midek on August 2, 2012 at 3:31am
Does anyone know how to place different ads on specific sections of articles?
For instance, I plan to sell sports article ads to certain businesses and obituary ads to other business.
I am using SimpleAds.
I have tried cloning Article Detail Page in Context, calling it Sports Article Detail, and then adding the Sports Taxonomy but that did not work.
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What is you website? I may have an answer for you, let me look.
We develop newspaper websites - www.SurfNewMedia.com and www.PicaNewMedia.com
Actually -- This Worked,
I had my advertisement scheduled to expire in 2011 !!!
To me, it feels like I am taking 1000 steps when there is probably a 3-step answer
So, for anyone keeping track at home:
1. Create section taxonomy - Sports, for example.
2. Clone the Recent OP CONTENT (choose article or whichever content you plan to use), filter it by taxonomy. (Sports)
3. Create a section front by that taxonomy (Sports) (for your sports section front if you want one.
4, Create your advertisement for your sports articles. I created "Sports Right Side Top" and "sports right side bottom"
5. Go to context and Clone the Article Detail Page. I called mine Sports Article Detail. Add Taxonomy (Sports) as a condition
6. In your Sports Artcile Detail Page, go into blocks and erase the blocks you do not want, and add your block to the place you want it to go. I added Sports Right Side Top ad to the Second Side Bar.
7. Create your sports article by creating an article and choosing Sports as a section.
8. Go back into your article detail page and choose every taxonomy but sports as a condition to avoid duplicates.
DONE
Bonus --- To add your advertisement to your sports front page
1. Go to contexts and clone your Section Front Context. I called mine Sports Front. No taxonomy necessary. Just change the path to whatever it is you set up before. For me, mine was sports, because I am at *****.com/sports.
2. In your new context, place your specific ads in the block you wish to put it.
There are probably drupal veterans out there laughing their ass off about this, but it worked for me.
If there is a more efficient way, please share!