I’ve been searching for a while how to integrate banners ads into Wordpress RSS feed. I know that if you use OpenAds image tag invocation within your posts it works, but I’d rather have the ad code inserted dynamically.

I’ve finally found some way to do but I’ll be experiencing for a few days to make sure it works properly.

To implement this, Wordpress must be installed on the same webserver as OpenAds. You might also encounter some problems related to an “open-basedir” restriction if OpenAds isn’t installed on the same hosting account as your Wordpress blog.

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Perhaps you’ve heard about RSS or you’ve seen the orange icon  on many websites, blogs or forums. If you haven’t taken advantage of RSS feeds possibilities yet, perhaps it’s time you learn a little more about it.

RSS means “Really Simple Syndication”. It is a web feed format used to publish frequently updated content like blogs, forums, news headlines and podcasts.

As A Reader

An RSS feed allows you to read all your favorite news or blog posts from within a single interface called an RSS reader (or an RSS aggregator). This can be web-based or it can come as a software. There are plenty of free RSS reader in both web and software format. I tend to like web-based reader more cause you can access it from anywhere.

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For those who are less familiar with Wordpress, plugins are addons that can enhance your blog’s functionnalities (read further for examples). The benefit of using (or developing) plugins is that you don’t have to modify Wordpress’ source code.

Installing a plugin for Wordpress is pretty easy:

1. Extract the files from the archive you’ve downloaded.
2. Upload the plugin file (when it’s made of a single PHP file) or the directory (when it’s made of multiple files) to your blog using a FTP client. The plugin file (or folder) must be uploaded into /wp-content/plugins.
3. Enable the plugin from Wordpress control panel (http://www.yourblog.com/wp-admin). Select the “Plugins” tab and activate the plugin from the list.

Some plugins may require that you set some configuration values by editing them with your favorite text editor. Just look for a file named readme.txt, install.txt or any other text file that may contain the installation instructions for the plugin before you upload it.

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