How To: Remove Ads from Categories

It’s been said that monetization should be done in moderation without appearing too obtrusive to your readers.

One of the most common approaches is to insert ad banner or adsense within the post. In-line ads are perceived to have one of the highest click-through-rate (CTR).

Now what if you do not want to show ads on posts within certain categories? In some instances, what if you want to remove ads on all your sponsored reviews?

WordPress Hack

In my search to find the possibility to do so, I’ve just discovered a nice little hack that removes any ad from any category.

I’m not too sure if this function is going to serve any real purpose to you but in the spirit of sharing, I’m going to show you how to do it in WordPress.

Insert your ad banner or adsense code here

In the above code 15 and 23 are category IDs, replace them with the IDs of the categories you don’t want ads in.

If you are clueless, here’s how to check your category ID

I am currently using this code to remove private ad from my Review categories. Probably by doing so, I’m giving the maximum exposure to the advertisers who ordered my review.

Source: JohnTP

post scriptum

Since php and me don’t seem to go along well most of the times, I’m asking anyone here if it is possible use if/else statement within the code.

What I’m trying to do here is to show adsense on one particular category and private ad on the other.

update:

John from The Mobility Tiger – a site that talks about health and mobility issue – has shared with us a simple php hack and here’s the code for the if/else statements.

        Insert your ad banner here

    

         Insert your adsense code here

    

        Insert your ad banner or adsense code here

All you need to do is to change the word ‘false’ to whatever you want to test for. In this case the category ID.

A big thanks to John for sharing.

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