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I’ve got a blog area of the site that has a blog listing with the summaries of each article. What I’d like to do, is have an ad show after every 2 posts or so, like Engadget.

I’m running into a blank on how to do this. Should I look into using conditionals or do I need to run a query? Any tips?

Thanks!!

I’d experiment with conditionals and looking at the count variable.

Awesome, thanks for the hint. I’ll investigate it and post my results. Thanks!

Using php and setting the PHP Parsing Stage to output. You can accomplish what you want.

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{master_weblog}"}
    {count}
        <?php
            if( '{count}' %2 == 0) {
        ?>
                Display ad
        <?
        }
        ?>
{/exp:weblog:entries}

Ok, you guys rock. Thanks very much for saving me half the day. Between Micheal’s hint and winslow4’s code, I got this working:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{master_weblog}"
{if count=='2'}
---Ad code here---
{/if} 
{/exp:weblog:entries}

Pretty simple, but it would have taken me a year to figure out alone!

Just as a quick note. With the code you have above you will only get the advert appearing once on each page which didn’t sound like what you asked for originally?

If you need an advert every two posts so if you had say 8 posts on a page you would end up with four or so adverts then you would need something like winslow4’s code to do this in the easiest way.

If of course you do just want an advert in place of the second post then your code will work. Note though that placing an :

{if count == "2"}
---Ad code here---
{/if}

code block inside a weblog tag will mean that whatever your second post content is won’t be shown unless you place it within the code block too.

Best wishes,

Mark

Thanks, Mark. Um yeah, I just figured that out. Duh!

Ok, I tried winslow4’s code originally, but it was showing underneath every entry instead of just every two. Going back again!

Oops sorry just noticed I posted something a little wrong above. Was writing too quickly. I meant that it will show up for the second post but not every second post.

Sorry all other code would still show but not repeat is what I meant. PHP is really the only easy way to do this. I really should make a plugin for this kind of thing one day.

Best wishes,

Mark

Ok, winslow4’s code does work after all. I forgot to enable php on the template. Weekend time for me, brain is absent. All good now. Thank you again winslow4 and Micheal and Mark.

Well thanks should just go to Michael and winslow4. I just wanted to let you know in case that is what you wanted. Have done this many times before and I really should make a plugin for this kind of thing one day soon.

Best wishes,

Mark