AdSense ads with WordPress AdSense Plugin for

Manage AdSense ads on your site with the AdSense Plugin for WordPress. You can use the ad layout chosen by our plugin or click special markers  to place ads manually.

This plugin is built for your WordPress application to manage sites hosted outside WordPress.com. It is not for sites that are hosted on WordPress.com. Currently, WordPress.com does not allow this plugin on its hosted sites.

Get started

1. First, remove any AdSense ad placements that you may have set up without the AdSense Plugin for WordPress.
   Here's why: The plugin cannot manage ads on your template if it has been added with other methods. Remove it using whatever plugin or widget you used originally, or remove their tags directly from the theme code.
2. Now you're ready to launch the plugin. Click Plugins on the site admin page of your site. Then find the AdSense Plugin for WordPress in your list of installed plugins and click Settings. (If you don't see the plugin, make sure you do not have ad blocking software enabled on your browser. This can prevent the plugin from appearing in WordPress.)
3. Click Manage ads in your AdSense Plugin for WordPress settings.
4. To get you started, the plugin will analyze your site and pick normal places to show ads.
   • To start showing ads immediately, just close the introduction message and click Save & activate on the upper right.
   • To check ad placements on your site and make manual changes, follow the steps below to review your site and place ads. It's a good idea to review your ad configuration even if you do not want to make manual edits.

Review your site and place ads

View your WordPress theme's templates to review your ad placements and make changes with the plugin. You can configure a different ad layout for each template. The ad layout on your template applies to all the pages that use that template. If you have questions during this process, check the FAQ below.

1. Choose a template to review. Open the template menu on the upper left of the page and choose a template to review. You can find this menu next to the "Design" and "Preview" buttons.
2. After you choose a template, check the ad layout shown below the template menu.
   • The green boxes  show where your ads will appear on all the parts of your site that use your template. Each one represents a different ad placement: a placeholder where ads can appear on the pages that use your template. Note that the plugin shows you an example of just one part of your site that uses your chosen template. There may be many other pages that also use this template.
   • Click the Preview button at the top to view sample ads in place of the green boxes.
3. Add or remove placements if needed: Click a marker  in any place where you want to show ads, or click the x on a placement to remove it.
   • The maximum is three placements: You cannot save more than three placements per template. Three is the maximum allowed by AdSense policy. (Link units are not counted against this maximum. However, they still must adhere to AdSense policy.)
4. Modify the type and format of your placements if needed. Click the settings icon  to make changes.
   • Type: Text ads use text content determined by Google AdWords. Display ads use graphical ads with images or rich media. Choose both for a mix of text and graphical ads.
   • Format: Automatic uses the size and shape that best fits the space. Horizontal banners are short and wide. Vertical banners are tall and narrow. Rectangle banners are similar in width and height.
5. Once you have reviewed all your templates, click Save & activate on the upper right to start showing ads. This affects every template. Google AdSense will begin displaying ads in your new ad configuration within minutes. AdSense chooses which particular ads to display in each spot based on a number of targeting factors.
6. Make updates as needed. At any time, you can open your plugin and change any template you like.
   In some cases, updates to your site may require you to choose different ad placements for some of your templates. If this ever happens, you will see a warning that some ads are not showing on your site. When you click Manage ads in your plugin, we will tell you which templates are affected. Just check these templates and add new placements if needed.

   Mobile

   The ads you place with Ad Manager can reach mobile and non-mobile visitors. However, if you enableAutomated Mobile Ads along with Ad Manager, then the mobile visitors will receive a custom ad layout with mobile-friendly ads. This layout is determined by the AdSense Plugin for WordPress, not your Ad Manager settings. The plugin uses Google data to place ads these ads. It chooses a number and position of ads that fits well on mobile screens. And it continually tries to improve the data it uses to choose ad layouts (by running experiments on a very small fraction of your traffic).