Monetize Me

Monetize Me is a lightweight and developer-friendly advertisement management plugin for WordPress. It allows you to manage ads, organize them using taxonomies, and display them dynamically using shortcodes, PHP functions, widgets, or Gutenberg blocks.

The plugin is optimized for WordPress Multisite, enabling Network Administrators to centrally manage and synchronize taxonomy terms (adcategory, adsponsor) and Ad posts across subsites.

Core Features

• Custom Post Type for Ads
• Taxonomies:
  • Ad Categories (adcategory)
  • Ad Sponsors (adsponsor)
• Display ads using:
  • Shortcodes
  • PHP functions
  • Widgets
  • Gutenberg block
• Raw editor output for advertisement snippets without automatic <p> tag injection
• Provider-managed ad-code rendering without plugin-controlled JavaScript initialization or delayed execution
• Enqueued frontend styles that keep responsive ad containers full-width, with optional alignment classes controlled by the shortcode, block, or widget
• Random ad display by category/group
• Lightweight and extensible architecture
• Admin-only Ad CPT management using plugin-specific capabilities

Multisite Features

When network activated:

• Dedicated Network Admin settings page
• Copy taxonomy terms across subsites
• Copy all ad CPT posts from one site to one or more selected subsites
• Preserve Ad post title, slug, content, excerpt, status, menu order, custom fields, and assigned Monetize Me taxonomy terms
• Duplicate-safe copying using slug-based detection
• Summary report showing copied, skipped, and failed counts

Usage

Shortcode Usage

The main shortcode is:

[mmps]

Supported attributes:

• id Display one specific ad by post slug.

• adcategory Either a single slug of ad Category or CSV IDs of Ad Category.

• adsponsor A sponsor slug, comma-separated term IDs, comma-separated slugs, or a mixed comma-separated list of IDs and slugs.

• limit Number of ads to display. Default: 1

• wrapper Wrap each ad in

<

div class=”ad-wrapper”>. Accepts 1 or 0. Default: 1

• class Optional alignment or styling class for the outer wrapper. No alignment class is added by default.

Shortcode examples

Display a specific ad by ad slug:

[mmps id=”homepage-leaderboard”]

Display one random ad from category ID 12:

[mmps adcategory=”12″]

Display one random ad from the ad category with the slug ”in-article-ad”:

[mmps adcategory=”in-article-ad”]

Display two random ads from category ID 12:

[mmps adcategory=”12″ limit=”2″]

Display ads from category 12 and sponsor 3:

[mmps adcategory=”12″ adsponsor=”3″]

Display ads from a sponsor slug:

[mmps adsponsor=”adsense”]

Display ads from multiple sponsor IDs or slugs:

[mmps adsponsor=”3,7,adsense”]

Display an ad without wrapper markup:

[mmps id=”sidebar-ad-1″ wrapper=”0″]

Center an ad explicitly when required:

[mmps id=”homepage-leaderboard” adAlignment=”center-align”]

Raw Ad Code Usage

For Google AdSense or other third-party advertisement snippets, paste the provider code into an Ad post using a Custom HTML block or the code editor. Monetize Me renders the ad content without wpautop(), so the saved markup is not wrapped in extra paragraph tags.

Monetize Me does not initialize, delay, rewrite, or remove third-party advertising JavaScript. The complete advertisement snippet saved in the Ad post is printed on the frontend as supplied. Include any required provider loader and initialization code in the saved snippet or load shared scripts separately through the website.

PHP Usage

Multisite Term Synchronization

1. Go to Network Admin → Settings → Monetize Me.
2. In Copy Ad Taxonomy Terms, select the source site.
3. Select the destination subsite.
4. Click Copy Terms to Selected Subsite.

The plugin will:

• Copy adcategory terms
• Copy adsponsor terms
• Skip duplicate terms by slug

Multisite Ad Post Synchronization

1. Go to Network Admin → Settings → Monetize Me.
2. In Copy Ads, select the source site.
3. Select one or more destination subsites.
4. Click Copy Ads to Selected Subsites.

The plugin will:

• Copy all posts of the ad custom post type
• Skip destination Ad posts with the same slug
• Copy custom fields
• Copy and assign adcategory and adsponsor terms by slug
• Report copied, skipped, and failed counts

License

This plugin is licensed under the GPLv2 or later.