XF 1.5 Placing Ad in between first and second post without being in the first post?

[Brad Padgett]

Is there any way I can place my adsense ads directly in between the first and second post without the ad being in the first post?

I noticed several of @Brogan's threads regarding this but none of my findings actually told how to place it in between the first and second post. Only inside the first post.

This would help me out a lot of anyone has some tips. I was able to do this with vBulletin 5 because of a help thread I came across.

Appreciate it.

 

[Paul B]

That specific implementation is explained here: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/responsive-adsense.2084/

Here's another more complex example using the ad_message_below template:

 

[Tiki Tiki]

Is there a write-up on how to make it appear as if the ads are being posted by a bot user account?

 

[Paul B]

That specific example does exactly that.

 

[Tiki Tiki]

Great, thanks! Can an avatar be assigned?

 

[Paul B]

Yes.

 

[Tiki Tiki]

Yes.

Looking at the code now...

<xen:avatar user="$visitor" size="m" img="true" />

What does this need to be replaced with? Do I need to first manually create an ad bot user account? And then "$visitor" becomes... ?

 

[Brad Padgett]

That specific implementation is explained here: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/responsive-adsense.2084/

I saved this info to browse later which I finally got to it today since it wasn't so direct.

I can say that I don't see anywhere on this tutorial how to place the ad in between post #1 and post #2 without a bot. Please elaborate on this. It's very important to me.

Or point out where in the tutorial it explains how to do this.

Thanks @Brogan.

 

[Mike]

The ad_message_below template code has code to do it already (see the xen:if near the start).