Yes DFP can definitely do it all, but as you say this feature shouldn’t be detectable by ad blockers. And I’ve already been trying to recommend DFP as the solution for serving house ads, but the answer is usually that DFP is too hard to understand.
I haven’t played around with the ad plugin yet, but is it possible to run house ads alongside network ads? I may have a use case for that in the community I run.
This is all currently possible because you can make text links and show images with simple html. Upload your assets in a staff-only topic or in the theme component where your house ads’ css is defined.
That’s the idea. Something like this is what I’m thinking of going with:
How would you want to serve them alongside another ad network?
I would recommend using UTM links or using bitly would be very simple.
@neil I love this plugin, the only improvement I would like to see is to have the ability to show different ads to anon vs logged in users on top of the existing ability of having them hidden altogether for specific groups.
Hmm I can’t reproduce it. I changed meta so that people in the “Team” group don’t see ads (we already wear Discourse shirts and socks every day). Anon can still see ads and I can’t. Seems to be working.
There are other reasons not to use Google for managing your house ads besides complexity, but that’s reason enough. I’m really looking forward to using this, and we would only be using it for house ads 100% of the time.
Implemented this on our DeviceBAR Forum, it’s so cool. I totally love it. I just have to figure out the mobile responsiveness part now. Looking forward to seeing more updates related to this plugin.