I have a new wordpress blog and just want to put adsense on the sidebar. (As well as html) I don't know why this is so hard. I have downloaded something, adsense plug in from some site. Then I extracted files. Then when I opened it, nothing comes up but a blank dreamweaver page. So I am lost. It should not be so hard. I just need simple step by step instructions to put adsense in the sidebar if I can.
I did download that, but I did not see any type of code. When I opened it all I got was a blank macromedia dreamweaver page. Obviously I missed something.
I'm not explaining good. I know I have to download a code in the blog. I downloaded the adsense plug in but never saw any code. Don't know why. And I don't know why it opens up as a blank macromedia dreamweaver page. I never even use dreamweaver. I thought this would be easy but it's turning out to be so complicated.
First download the plugin here: http://www.acmetech.com/blog/adsense-deluxe/ and then upload the plugin into your wordpress plugin directory, which is /wp-content/plugins/ assuming you have wordpress installed at the document root of your website. head to wordpress admin panel -> Plugins -> see if it is listed in the plugin list -> if it is, click activate to make it to work -> head to Options and now you can configure the plugin to display your adsense code.
You do not need AdSense Deluxe to put AdSense on the sidebar. The plugin is designed to overcome the problem of putting Javascripts in Wordpress posts and page. There is no problem using the code in template files. For the sidebar, just past the code into your sidebar template using your Wordpress admin panel. Go to presentation -> theme editor -> sidebar template. Make sure you have made the file (sidebar.php) writeable.
For WordPress you don't even need a plugin to run AdSense. Just edit the files manually. It's fairly easy.