Thomas Maier

Advanced Ads

<a href="https://wpadvancedads.com/add-ons/genesis-ads/" rel="nofollow ugc">Genesis Ads</a> enables you to easily display any kind of advertisement – including Google AdSense and Amazon – in various positions in your Genesis based theme.
In order to use Ads for Genesis, you also need
<ul>
<li>a theme based on the Genesis Framework built by StudioPress,</li>
<li>the free ad management plugin <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-ads/" rel="ugc">Advanced Ads</a>.</li>
</ul>
This combination with Advanced Ads allows you to inject adverts like Google AdSense, Amazon, images banners, etc. managed by Advanced Ads into the predefined positions (called “action hooks“ many Genesis based themes have included in the frontend) and to make use from features like ad rotation. 
Please be aware that your theme author might have left some of them out. Also, the styling of the content added by these hooks depends on your theme. Please contact your theme developer about styling issues.
<h4>Positions for ads</h4>
There are currently 51 positions you can target with Genesis Ads. Among them are:
<ul>
<li>a couple of positions around and within the header – the part where the site’s title and description and maybe also a navigation and a search form are located</li>
<li>around the main content and sidebar wrappers</li>
<li>before, within and after the main and the alternative sidebar</li>
<li>around the loop – the part where the posts and pages gets loaded, but not within the actual content itself</li>
<li>plenty of positions around the content. You can even specify positions around the content title here</li>
<li>around the comments, pings (websites that link to your post) and the comment form</li>
<li>before, within and after your site’s footer</li>
</ul>
Keep in mind that content positions might be repeated on overview pages like home or category pages and the ad might be injected multiple times per page.
<h4>Usage</h4>
Make sure that you have your Genesis-based theme and the basic version of Advanced Ads activated.
Go to your dashboard and navigate to Advanced Ads > Placements.
When creating a new placement, select the one with the G in the symbol.
After saving the new placement you find it with additional options in the placement list. Here you can specify or change the ad and select the position (see below) from the list.
There are currently 51 placements in 7 logical groups. You can find extended information on them in the <a href="https://my.studiopress.com/docs/hook-reference" rel="nofollow ugc">Genesis Hook Reference</a> (Genesis login needed).
The positions are mostly self-explanatory. When you check the reference against the positions in the Genesis placement then you should keep in mind that I removed the genesis_ prefix.

Ads for Genesis

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Ads for Genesis allows you to display any kind of ads without coding in your Genesis theme.

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The Events Calendar

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Image Widget is a simple plugin that uses the native WordPress media manager to add image widgets to your site.
<h4>Image Widget Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Responsive</li>
<li>MU Compatible</li>
<li>Handles image resizing and alignment</li>
<li>Link the image</li>
<li>Add title and description</li>
<li>Versatile – all fields are optional</li>
<li>Upload, link to external image, or select an image from your media collection</li>
<li>Customize the look & feel with filter hooks or theme overrides</li>
</ul>
<h4>Quality You Can Trust</h4>
Image Widget is developed and maintained by <a href="https://evnt.is/1aor" rel="nofollow ugc">The Events Calendar</a>, the same folks behind <a href="https://evnt.is/19me" rel="nofollow ugc">The Events Calendar, Event Tickets, and a full suite of premium plugins</a>.
This plugin is actively supported by our team and contributions from community members. If you see a question in the forum you can help with or have a great idea and want to code it up or submit a patch, that would be awesome! Not only will we shower you with praise and thanks, it’s also a good way to get to know us and lead into options for paid work if you freelance.
<h4>Pull Requests & Translations</h4>
<a href="https://github.com/the-events-calendar/image-widget" rel="nofollow ugc">Check us out on GitHub</a> to pull request changes.
Translations can be submitted <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/image-widget" rel="nofollow ugc">here on WordPress.org</a>.
<h3>Documentation</h3>
The built in template can be overridden by files within your template.
<h4>Default vs. Custom Templates</h4>
The Image Widget comes with a default template for the widget output. If you would like to alter the widget display code, create a new folder called “image-widget” in your template directory and copy over the “views/widget.php” file.
Edit the new file to your hearts content. Please do not edit the one in the plugin folder as that will cause conflicts when you update the plugin to the latest release.
New in 3.2: You may now also use the “sp_template_image-widget_widget.php” filter to override the default template behavior for .php template files. Eg: if you wanted widget.php to reside in a folder called my-custom-templates/ and wanted it to be called my-custom-name.php:
<pre><code>add_filter('sp_template_image-widget_widget.php', 'my_template_filter');
function my_template_filter($template) {
 return get_template_directory() . '/my-custom-templates/my-custom-name.php';
}
</code></pre>
<h4>Filters</h4>
There are a number of filters in the code that will allow you to override data as you see fit. The best way to learn what filters are available is always by simply searching the code for ‘apply_filters’. But all the same, here are a few of the more essential filters:
widget_title
This is actually a pretty typical filter in widgets and is applied to the widget title.
widget_text
Another very typical widget filter that is applied to the description body text. This filter also takes 2 additional arguments for $args and $instance so that you can learn more about the specific widget instance in the process of filtering the content.
image_widget_image_attachment_id
Filters the attachment id of the image. 
Accepts additional $args and $instance arguments.
image_widget_image_url
Filters the url of the image displayed in the widget. 
Accepts additional $args and $instance arguments. 
THIS IS DEPRECATED AND WILL EVENTUALLY BE DELETED
image_widget_image_width
Filters the display width of the image. 
Accepts additional $args and $instance arguments.
image_widget_image_height
Filters the display height of the image. 
Accepts additional $args and $instance arguments.
image_widget_image_maxwidth
Filters the inline max-width style of the image. Hint: override this to use this in responsive designs 🙂 
Accepts additional $args and $instance arguments. 
Return null to remove this css from the image output (defaults to ‘100%’).
image_widget_image_maxheight
Filters the inline max-height style of the image. 
Accepts additional $args and $instance arguments. 
Return null to remove this css from the image output (defaults to null)
image_widget_image_size
Filters the selected image ‘size’ corresponding to WordPress registered sizes. 
If this is set to ‘tribe_image_widget_custom’ then the width and height are used instead. 
Accepts additional $args and $instance arguments.
image_widget_image_align
Filters the display alignment of the image. 
Accepts additional $args and $instance arguments.
image_widget_image_alt
Filters the alt text of the image. 
Accepts additional $args and $instance arguments.
image_widget_image_link
Filters the url that the image links to. 
Accepts additional $args and $instance arguments.
image_widget_image_link_target
Filters the link target of the image link. 
Accepts additional $args and $instance arguments.
image_widget_image_attributes
Filters a list of image attributes used in the image output. Similar to ‘wp_get_attachment_image_attributes’ 
Accepts $instance arguments
image_widget_link_attributes
Filters a list of attributes used in the image link. Similar to ‘wp_get_attachment_image_attributes’ 
Accepts $instance arguments
<h4>Have You Supported the Image Widget?</h4>
If so, then THANK YOU! Also, feel free to add this line to your wp-config.php file to prevent the image widget from displaying a message after upgrades.
define( ‘I_HAVE_SUPPORTED_THE_IMAGE_WIDGET’, true );
For more info on the philosophy here, check out our <a href="http://tri.be/define-i-have-donated-true/" rel="nofollow ugc">blog post</a>

Image Widget

A simple image widget that uses the native WordPress media manager to add image widgets to your site.

Ads for Genesis vs Image Widget