Use OIO Publisher Effectively on WordPress Multisite

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OIO Publisher is probably the most effective ad management platform for WordPress which allows you to sell any number and any kind of ads on your site and keep 100% of all the profits.

Since the arrival of WordPress Multisite on a grander level, many people have started looking for plugin solutions that work across their network of sites more efficiently. If you make or want to make any kind of money via your WordPress site, then you need to know how to effectively use OIO Publisher or anything similar on your WordPress network. If you still haven’t, try OIO Publisher today and use JUNO-BESZ coupon at checkout for $10 off.

If you want to effectively use OIO Publisher on your WordPress Multisite without the need for multiple plugin activations or having multiple OIO Publisher admin areas, follow the guide below. This was summarized from our own methods and steps we follow on our Besizm network of blogs and sites.

Replace 3 things in every code below to make it work for your sites

For all of the following OIO Publisher codes and steps, you need to replace 3 things to make it work for your WordPress blogs and sites.

1. Replace “http://your-domain/oio-pub-path/” with the OIO Publisher installation path. More on this in step # 1 below.
2. Replace the “link” in “type=link” with the appropriate word depending on what type of Ad Zone it is. For Banner Ads use “banner” and for Text Ads use “link” in that code.
3. Replace the “1″ number [numeral 1] in the “zone=1″ code with the zone id # you created and that you want to appear in that specific location.
4. Replace the “center” in “align=center” to “left”, “right” or “center” to align [position] the ad left, right or in the middle center.

Now let’s get started. If you follow this Social Improve guide, there are only 5 simple steps to enable OIO Publisher on your WordPress Multisite and to ensure it is compatible and elegant in the long term also.

1 : Enable OIO Publisher on One Single Domain

This is of course the most important step and something that is the biggest puzzle for many people when it comes to having OIO Publisher work on multiple domains without installing or activating OIO Publisher for each domain.

Install and enable OIO Publisher on one single domain on your network. Pick one and stick to it. It can be a rogue site you don’t use or something that has the least plugins. It can be any domain, even the most popular one. Choose any criteria, pick a domain site to install OIO Publisher on and activate OIO Publisher on it as a plugin. This will be the one and only site where OIO Publisher will be activated as a plugin. This has many benefits including:

• More productive. You will get the entire snapshot view of your entire ad income on all your blogs from one single OIO Publisher admin area.
• Less resource hog on your WordPress Multisite database. Only one plugin activation and database table set that does all the work efficiently.
• Less time wasted. You go into only one OIO Publisher site admin area to manage all ads on all of your sites.
• Less confusion. You will be able to add, change or remove ads and anything else you wish in a single place instead of going back and forth from one domain’s OIO Publisher admin area to another to do the same.

This is where you will manage and configure all ads for all your domains on your Multisite Network and also on any site outside of your WordPress Multisite. This will result in a single database set for OIO Publisher and only one area to manage it through. We do this for our Besizm network of sites and it works perfectly. In fact, our ad sales, views and speed of sites have gone up considerably since we started using OIO Publisher more effectively on our WordPress Multisite.

We will call this main domain’s OIO Publisher, where you installed and activated OIO Publisher, the Main Domain OIO Publisher from now on to make it easier to remember and refer to.

2 : Create Separate Ad Zones for All Your WordPress Multisite Network Sites

Go into your Main Domain OIO Publisher settings area and create as many Ad Zones as you wish for each site. Sidebar ads, footer ads, header ads, mobile ads, RSS ads, etc. Anything you fancy can be created now.

Organize everything from the start by prefixing it with the site name or nickname if you can. This way you can easily manage all of your ad zones easily in the future.

Step #1 above and this Step #2 allow us to have a single activation and presence of Main Domain OIO Publisher area, and to have as many ads as we want for as many domains as we want in a single area on the Main Domain OIO Publisher.

Now comes the even more fun part in the next step: putting OIO Publisher Ad Zones on different sites outside of the Main Domain OIO Publisher site.

3 : Sidebar Widget Ads – Use JavaScript OIO Publisher Ad Calls

OIO Publisher comes with sidebar widgets to enable and use on any OIO Publisher enabled WordPress site. These sidebar widgets work only when OIO Publisher is activated on the website where you want these sidebar widgets to show. So what do you do when you enable OIO Publisher on only one site and want to show sidebar ads on different sites on that WordPress Multisite network?

Simple. You use the standard WordPress “Text” widget instead on any domain you want to call OIO Publisher ads on and put the following JavaScript code in that widget.

4 : Custom Theme Ads – Use JavaScript OIO Publisher Ads Calls in Templates

You may have customized your WordPress blog or site theme to enable ads in different locations via OIO Publisher by using PHP calls. You can continue the same trend easily by calling OIO Publisher from any theme file on any domain via JavaScript calls from now on to your OIO Publisher domain.

For any Ad Zones, use the following code and again replace the “zone=1″ with your own zone number.

5 : RSS Feed Ads – Use Functions.php Custom Function Call to OIO Publisher

One of the strongest features of OIO Publisher I love are Feed ads. OIO Publisher comes with an extra plugin “OIO Publisher Addons” which allows you to do different things, including showing any ads in your RSS Feeds.

The way OIO Publisher works is by having you enable this Addon plugin, in addition to the main OIO Publisher plugin, on any site you wish to show RSS Feed ads on. So what do you do when you follow our guide and enable OIO Publisher on only one site but want to show your ads on feeds of different sites?

Simple. Use the functions.php file in your theme, where you want to show the RSS Feed ads, to call ads from the Main Domain OIO Publisher.

Edit your existing “functions.php” file in your existing theme folder on the domain whose feeds you want to show ads in and add the following function to it. That will call OIO Publisher and put ads in any feed of any domain you wish.

function socialimprove_dotcom_feed_ads_tutorial($content) {
/* how to put OIO Publisher ads in your RSS Feeds - by Social Improve http://socialimprove.com/blog/use-oio-publisher-effectively-on-wordpress-multisite keep this here - change the url below according to step # 1 in the guide */
if(is_feed()) {
$content = '

' .$content. '

';
}
return $content;
}
//add to feed
add_filter('the_content', 'socialimprove_dotcom_feed_ads_tutorial');
add_filter('the_excerpt_rss', 'socialimprove_dotcom_feed_ads_tutorial');

Save the functions.php file and upload it back to your site. Then look at your feeds and you will notice the ads you put in there at the footer of every post.

You can also find out what RSS Feeds are if you wish. If you need help with this step, post a comment below.

Questions? Ask!

The above how-to guide is for serious bloggers and site owners wanting to manage ad spaces and make money more effectively using OIO Publisher for WordPress Multisite network of sites. If you are thinking about it, try OIO Publisher today and use JUNO-BESZ coupon at checkout for $10 off to bring the price down to only $37 one-time fee.

Are you using OIO Publisher on your sites? How well is it working for you? Do you need help customizing or setting up any specific aspect of OIO Publisher?

Share your thoughts, tips or questions in the comments below. Enjoy!

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