Official Discourse Advertising Plugin. Install & Start Serving Ads on Your Discourse Forum

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README.md

Official Discourse Advertising Plugin

This is the official Discourse advertising plugin. It allows advertisements to be served by supported advertising platforms for users with a Discourse forum.

Supported Discourse Version: 1.4

Supported Ad Platforms: Google Adsense, Google Double Click for Publishers

Installation

There are three sets of installation instructions:

Docker Installation - Recommended - If you have a live Discourse forum and minimal programming experience.
Non-Docker Installation - If you have experience with programming. This will set up this plugin as a git submodule in your Discourse directory.
Local Development - If you want develop locally and have experience with programming. This will set up this plugin as a symlinked file in Discourse's plugin directory.

1. Docker Installation - Recommended

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

2. 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

3. Local Development Installation

Clone the Discourse Adplugin Repo in a new local folder.
Separately clone Discourse Forum in another local folder.
In your terminal, go into Discourse folder navigate into the plugins folder. Example cd ~/code/discourse/plugins
Create a symlink in this folder by typing the following into your terminal :

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

You can now make changes in your locally held Discourse Adplugin folder and see the effect of your changes when your run rails s in your locally held Discourse Forum files.

Usage

Note TODO: After installation users likely want to:

Choose platform.
Input ad codes + do a few other things. - DFP in detail with custom targeting - write guide on this.
Display ad.

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.

Please test both plugins individually - don't symlink both together, instead test them in isolation.

Input 3 parts - ad code (topmost box), width, height. And be sure to untick the disable box. Then, refresh the page for the inputs to take effect, and go to the ad location.

Usually google sizes to input are (widthheight) 300250 or 728*90 (best) respectively. Input your dfp ad code.

The namings in settings are with reference to the plugin outlets created by Discourse.

dfp_topic_list_top_code: ad will appear at the header of Discourse homepage

dfp_topic_above_post_stream_code: ad will appear at the header of all Discourse forum topics

dfp_topic_above_suggested_code: ad will appear at the footer above suggested topics of all Discourse forum topics

dfp_post_bottom_code: ad will appear on the Nth post (be sure to input N in the bottom-most box called

dfp_nth_post_code and ensure your total number of posts in topic >=N. For example, if you input N = 4, the forum should have at least 4 replies/posts)