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
Google AdSense-friendly rendering that avoids premature responsive slot initialization
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
One or more Ad Sponsor term IDs separated by commas.
limit
Number of ads to display. Default: 1
wrapper
Wrap each ad in

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

class
Extra alignment or styling class for the outer wrapper.

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 an ad without wrapper markup:

[mmps id=”sidebar-ad-1″ wrapper=”0″]

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.

For AdSense responsive ads, the plugin keeps the AdSense loader script and delays the slot push until the slot has visible width. This helps avoid the browser console error: adsbygoogle.push() error: No slot size for availableWidth=0.

PHP Usage

<?php echo monetize_me_display_ad( array( 'adcategory' => 'homepage' ) ); ?>

Multisite Term Synchronization

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

The plugin will:

Copy adcategory terms
Copy adsponsor terms
Skip duplicate terms by slug

Multisite Ad Post Synchronization

Go to Network Admin Settings Monetize Me.
In Copy Ads, select the source site.
Select one or more destination subsites.
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.