Adding ads and stuff between posts

if you added both codes, and unless you put it into a weird location within your index.php, there is no obvious reason why this should not work.
(assuming that $count is set to 1 before the loop)

you could paste the whole code of index.php into a https://wordpress.pastebin.com/ and post the link to it here.

It is displaying the banners but how it displays is in this order:

1. 1st post excerpt
2. banner 1
3. banner 2
4. 2nd post excerpt
5. 3rd post excerpt

try to add the code in this order:

<?php if ($count == 2) : ?> content <?php endif; $count++; ?>
<?php if ($count == 1) : ?> content <?php endif; $count++; ?>

Hey that worked!

But why?

logic behind it:
– $count starts with 1;
– it passes the first if-statement ($count == 2) , which is not true, so does nothing;
– it passes the second if-statement ($count == 1), which is true, so output content, increse $count, which is now 2;
-loop;
– now $count equals 2;
– it passes the first if-statement ($count == 2) , which is now true, so output content, increse $count, which is now 3;
– it passes the second if-statement ($count == 1), which is now not true, so do nothing;
-loop;
-from now $count equals 3, and further both if-statements are nor true.

Now it makes sense. Thank you very much for walking me through this!

One Line?

<?php if($count==1 || $count==2) : ?> content <?php endif; $count++; ?>

David

How would that work if it is two different ads?

You said adSense and as adSense will deliver a different add each call, I was assuming that these are two banner ads (Adsense max 3 on any page).

loop 1 $count == 0;
No Ad $count out of range increment count++;
1st ‘Post’ output

Loop 2
$count == 1; Output ‘Call Banner’ increment count++;
2nd ‘Post’ output

Loop3
$count == 2; Output ‘Call Banner’ increment count++;
3nd ‘Post’ output

loop 4;
No Ad $count out of range increment count++;
4th ‘Post’ output

Second and Fourth and sixth posts
<?php if($count < 7 && !$count % 2) : ?> content <?php endif; $count++; ?>

HTH

David ??

@adeptris i said adsense as an example (bad example i guess), thank you for the reply.

I am trying to add a third slot now and it won’t show up. I still can’t figure out the logic of why this won’t work:

<?php if ($count == 3) : ?> content <?php endif; $count++; ?>
<?php if ($count == 2) : ?> content <?php endif; $count++; ?>
<?php if ($count == 1) : ?> content <?php endif; $count++; ?>

The results I was aiming for: 1 would go between post 1 and 2; 2 would go between posts 2 and 3; 3 would go between posts 3 and 4.

Isn’t that how it should work?

i would say as well – famous words – it ‘should’ work.

you could try a different approach, with the counter increment outside of the if/elseif statements:

<?php if ($count == 1) : ?> content1
<?php elseif ($count == 2) : ?> content2
<?php elseif ($count == 3) : ?> content3
<?php endif;
$count++; ?>

Hi Neononcon,
The counter is just after the loop so it is set for all elements in that iteration.

<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

<?php /* increment the counter */ ?>
<?php $count+=1; ?>

An Alterantive Way
Now you could make this really simple, and just create template parts, which are php files, call these ‘advert hyphon index’ like advert-1.php advert-3.php

Now all you need to do is in the loop add one comment and a code line.

<?php /* increment the counter */ ?>
<?php $count+=1; ?>

<?php /* Get the advert by index if exists */ ?>
<?php get_template_part( 'advert', $count ); ?>

Now how cool, clean and tidy is that, include_file() would error if the file was missing, get_template_part(), as I understand it, will not error because if it cannot find the file it returns nothing, it uses locate_template() which will return nothing, I have not tested this so feedback if you try it.

Working Example of a Template Part
Adding navigation-2.php

<?php /* Start add our second page menu */ ?>
<div id="pagemenu" role="navigation">
	<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'container_class' => 'page-header', 'menu_class' => 'page-menu', 'theme_location' => 'secondary', 'depth' => 0, 'fallback_cb' => '' ) ); ?>
</div>
<?php /* End lower page menu */ ?>

Called in header.php

<?php /* Get our second navigation bar */ ?>
<?php get_template_part( 'navigation', 2 ); ?>

HTH

David ??