AdSense and WordPress MU
Now that AdSense ads are actually running, I might as well explain how it was done.
Yeah, I know, these Howto’s are boring and not much fun. Trust me, they aren’t much fun to write either. Soon, I will be done with most of them and will get down to the real work. 
They sure do take out a lot of the guess work on setting up a new blog though.
The purpose of this article is only to discuss the actual installation of this plugin on my WordPress MU site. Actually using the AdSense plugin is the subject of other articles.
The first one I am using is AdSense Deluxe. Unfortunately, their site seems to have been deleted, so I wont add a link. I did find a copy of this plugin for download that is a patched version. Unfortunately, I closed the window too soon and I lost the link. Sorry to the author of the patch. If you contact me, I will give you credit. I am such a bad blogger.
You can download the plugin at the end of this article, but I take NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHATEVER HAPPENS!
I did not write it.
Because of the nature of the Google AdSense TOS, you will need to never allow more than three AdSense ads to appear on a page, so be sure to always use the tag as outlined in RSS Feeds and the Summary View article and put the AdSense ads for the articles below it.
That said, the plugin went right in to my WordPress and WordPress MU installs and worked as expected. Now, I can call AdSense ads inline as I write.
Like so:
Each blog on the WordPress MU install has its own ads that run and are all easily adjusted from the WP admin. Unfortunately, these ad calls only work in the articles. The AdSense ads running outside of the content areas are controlled by another system.
I do not think I will be clicking the option to give the author 5% of my AdSense earnings. I do not pay people I cannot contact. This isn’t me being stingy to the author, this is me being stingy with Google AdSense. If AdSense can’t find him to pay, they get to keep that 5%.
I refuse to leave money on the table like that.
For now, this plugin seems to suit my needs, so I will continue to use it, even unsupported.
If you can not find this plugin from the source, you may use this Local Download. Again, if it eats your server and takes down half the internet, I don’t want to hear it. You were warned.
Ok, I exaggerated, I DO want to hear about it, but I won’t do more than feel really bad and remove the link. It isn’t my fault you installed strange code you found on the web. 
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