I have installed the Advertising plugin but realised it only allows you to run ads like google ads. I want to run ads in my forum but I want them to be ads that I create myself and charge a client for the advertising space. I am not sure how I could go about this. I would want to run ads on the main dashboard and also in certain categories. The ads would all be different in the different categories. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

You actually can do this with the Advertissing plugin. It’s called House Ads: [image] House Ad Templates Site Management House Ad Templates This guide provides templates for creating house ads using the Official Discourse Ad Plugin. warning Important: Disable ad blockers (including those built in to browsers, e.g. Brave) before working with these ad customizations. Before You Start Create a “House Ads” theme component to store: CSS for your house ads Uploaded images used in ads Add the component to all active themes where ads will appear Optimize images using TinyPNG to reduce file size while maintain…

Thank you very much. I have just started playing around with it this morning. Do you happen to know how I can get the file path for my uploaded images, to put in the HTML. I can’t work out how to find the path for it.

It’s ok I figured it out. Just click on the uploaded image in the component and it will open in a new window and I could cut and paste it from there. It is working! :slight_smile: Now I just need to figure out how to centre the image and get it to display different ads in different categories.

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) April 13, 2025, 7:37am 3

You actually can do this with the Advertissing plugin. It’s called House Ads:

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