Discourse-Adplugin

Ad plugin for Discourse forum.

Installation

• Supported Discourse version: v1.4

Special Intallation Instructions for RGSoC Coaches

• You would have already gotten the discourse to load locally. If not, do that first. You can find instructions here.
• Then clone this repo in a new local folder.
• In the terminal, go into your discourse folder and then into plugins. Example cd ~/code/discourse/plugins
• Create a symlink in this folder and do that by doing:

ln -s ~/whereever_your_cloned_ad_plugin_path_is .

For example: ln -s ~/discourse-plugin-test .

Now you are done. See 'Usage' heading for sample ad codes that you can input.

Non-docker installation

• Run bundle exec rake plugin:install repo=http://github.com/team-melbourne-rgsoc2015/discourse-adplugin in your discourse directory
• In development mode, run bundle exec rake assets:clean
• In production, recompile your assets: bundle exec rake assets:precompile
• Restart Discourse

Docker installation

As seen in a how-to on meta.discourse.org, simply add the plugin's repo url to your container's app.yml file:

hooks:
  after_code:
    - exec:
        cd: $home/plugins
        cmd:
          - mkdir -p plugins
          - git clone https://github.com/team-melbourne-rgsoc2015/discourse-adplugin.git

• Rebuild the container

cd /var/docker
git pull
./launcher rebuild app

Usage

• Go to Admin > Settings > Ad Plugin
• Add DFP link into code boxes, input width and height based on Google Ad Ad units. Here are some sample ad codes that you can put in the input into the settings. But remember: ⋅⋅* Each slot requires a different sample ad code. That means, you cannot put the same ad sample ad codes multiple times in different slots. They won't appear.
  ⋅⋅* Don't click on the ad.
  ⋅⋅* On the last stroke of midnight, the magic will wear off. Make sure you leave the ball before then.

Sample DFP Ad Codes:

1. /142953540/PostandCourier/Postandcourier.com/News/Leaderboard_Bottom
2. /6355419/Travel/Europe/France/Paris
3. /1047893/kv_home_bigbox1

• Finally, if you wish to disable the ad, tick ad disabling box

Ad Providers Supported

• Google DFP

License

GPL v2

TO-DO:

• Publisher ID support
• Add size restrictions in ad slot inventory + size input fields
• Trust levels
• More ad providers