OIOpub Forum » Wordpress  »   How to exclude inline ads from some categories?

Hi Martin,

There's no way at the moment to exclude inline ads from certain categories. There are a couple of options open to you however:

1.) Use a banner zone instead, and manually edit your template to show that banner zone in a post. You could then use an if conditional around the banner zone to exclude categories.

2.) A similar approach to number 1, but instead you edit the OIOpublisher code itself. You'd need to edit the platform/wordpress/inline.php file to do this.

NB: the code below is off the top of my head, and I can't guarentee it will work for all versions of Wordpress

CATEGORY CONDITIONAL:

$category = get_the_category(); //get post category data
$cat_id = $category->cat_ID; //current post category ID
$exclude_cats = array( 1, 4, 5 ); //exclude category IDs
if(!in_array($cat_id, $exclude_cats)) {
//OUTPUT CODE HERE
}

If you were editing the OIOpublisher file, it might be best to flip that code around a bit. You'd put the code below at the top of the "ads_output" function:

$category = get_the_category(); //get post category data
$cat_id = $category->cat_ID; //current post category ID
$exclude_cats = array( 1, 4, 5 ); //exclude category IDs
if(in_array($cat_id, $exclude_cats)) {
return $content;
}

Which ever way you decided to do it (the first is better for upgrading OIO later, as there are no core changes), you'll need to define the category IDs you don't want to show ads on manually.