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[tpelia]

This is the first time I've used this forum, so please understand I'm not particularly technologically savvy, and sorry if this question seems ridiculous.

I want to put an ad in one of my sidebars, which is simple enough. However, I want to have it show up only on the homepage -- which I can do (or at least I thought I did).

Problem is, the ad also shows up in my 'archives' and 'categories' pages as well, and my advertiser doesn't want that -- he just wants the ad on one page, the homepage.

How do I have this plug-in show up only on the homepage? is that possible?



Any help would be appreciated!!

[yellowled]

How do I have this plug-in show up only on the homepage? is that possible?

Depends on which plugin you're actually using for this. There are various possibilities, and some of them offer a "show on homepage only" (or something like that) option in the plugin configuration.

YL

[tpelia]

I see that option in my choices, but the ad still shows up in my "archives" and "categories" pages.

Is there any way to have the plug-in simply show up on just the one page?

The plug-in is called "HTML Nugget." Is there a better choice with which I might address my problem?

[RobA]

I see that option in my choices, but the ad still shows up in my "archives" and "categories" pages.

Is there any way to have the plug-in simply show up on just the one page?

The plug-in is called "HTML Nugget." Is there a better choice with which I might address my problem?

That is one of the internal (core) plugins. Currently "overview" means "whenever there is not a single article being displayed".

There could be another option added "front page" that would only display on the front page and no other, but this would require changing a core file, not a separate plugin file.

I'd speculate you could check for $serendipity['view']=='start' to indicate the "front page" but I haven't tried it to see if that is the only place it would show up then (it depends on whether other event plugins will properly set the $serendipity['view'] variable or not, I think).

-Rob A>

[Don Chambers]

We seem to have two active threads asking for the same functionality. See also this thread.

[tpelia]

Thanks! I will go over to the other discussion thread to what they've come up with...