The discussion revolves around adding advertisements to a Discourse hosted forum. EDisc inquired about the possibility of adding ads to their forum, either as a core feature or through third-party plugins. gerhard suggested the official Google DFP plugin, while BCHK shared the advertising spec and mentioned trying the Google DFP plugin. michaeld recommended checking out the AdSense plugin, providing a link to the relevant topic.
Through all my research on Google I can only come up with posts that are several years old that really get into this topic. Is there any way to add advertisements into a Discourse hosted forum? Either on the sides, top, bottom, and especially injecting in-between posts? If this is a paid only type of feature that’s fine, but I’m not seeing any information on it whatsoever which is strange to me.
If it isn’t a core feature, does anyone know of any third party plug-ins that can do the same?
It’s not in the core, but there is an official plugin that might be of interest to you:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/official-google-dfp-plugin-feedback/29095?u=gerhard
Here is the advertising spec I originally asked for. I’m about to try the new plugin for Google DFP to see what they’ve implemented. Right now its not obvious:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/advertising-specifications-list-plugin-request/11673
Did you check out our AdSense plugin?