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This page describes how to get up and running using Ad-minister by means of example. It only touches the surface of some of the features, which are documented in more details on this page

1. Adding ads in the widget sidebar

1.1 What we want to do

We want to add the following ad as a widget in the sidebar of our WordPress blog.

<a href="http://www.tearitdown.org" target="_blank" >
  <img src="http://www.tearitdown.org/english/
banners/125x125_english.gif" border="0" />
</a>

which looks like:

1.2 How it’s done

1. After you have activated the ad-minister plugin on the Plugins page go to ‘Manage->Ad-minister’
2. Now we need to add a widget position in the ‘Position/Widgets’ tab within which the ad can appear. Click ‘Add new widget position’.
3. Fill out a name for the position, e.g. ‘Widget 1′. You can add an optional description if you want. You can also add code that appears before and after the ad that is placed withing the position. Click ‘Save position’ to store the information.
4. The widget position now exists and needs to be moved onto the sidebar of your theme. This is done under Design->Widgets. The position we just created is seen as ‘Ad: Widget 1′, click add and then save you changes. The widget is now positioned onto your sidebar, but since we haven’t added anything to it yet, nothing shows up when you load your blog. Let’s go ahead and add some content.
5. In Manage->Ad-minister under the ‘Create Content’ tab, you can add the advert. Pick a title for the ad, e.g. ‘Amnesty Insernational’.
6. Paste the html code of the ad into the editor. If we want to track how many people that click on the banner, add ‘%tracker%’ before the http:// of the link. This means that the html of the ad will look like:

   <a href="%tracker%http://www.tearitdown.org" target="_blank" >
     <img src="http://www.tearitdown.org/english/
   banners/125x125_english.gif" border="0" />
   </a>
   

7. Ignor the other options for now, and click ‘Save’.
8. You are done!

If you add more content to that position, Ad-minister will rotate both ads so that each of them are shown 50% of the time. You can also go ahead and create how many widget positions as you wish. I find it’s a convenient way to add stuff to the sidebar without having to go into the templates and edit code.