I wrote a really simple sidebar plugin today for NodeBB called NodeBB AdSense. With this plugin you can embed AdSense scripts into the sidebar to monetize your site.

To be fair its nothing more than an example plugin to demonstrate how to add a snippet of JS/HTML to the category view’s sidebar. Hopefully in the future we can do something more cooler with that, perhaps a small editor in the ACP to modify the ad dimensions or scheme. Maybe something like this adsense generator – but a little bit more cooler looking ;)

Click through for screenshots and installation instructions.

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