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.

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
• 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