Thesis-how to place ads Above the post title in thesis wordpress theme

Placing ads in thesis is not so difficult.There are custom wordpress plugins to enable you to display ads in various
locations of your wordpress blog.Easy adsense is one such plugin that helps you to add adsense and other ads in your wordpress website.But in thesis theme adding adsense or other ads above the post title below the header can be done as below

This can be done by adding another widget box above the posts and below the title.

step 1: copy the code below and click custom file editor and edit custom_functions.php and paste the code

/***BUILD AD WIDGET INSIDE POST paste in custom_functiom.php***/
 register_sidebars(1,
 array(
 'name' => 'Post_aboveAD',
 'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s">',

'after_widget' => '</li>',
 'before_title' => '<h3>',
'after_title' => '</h3>')

);

function post_abovead() { ?>

<div id="post_abovead">

<ul>

<?php thesis_default_widget(3); ?>

</ul>
</div> 

<?php }

add_action('thesis_hook_before_post_box', 'post_abovead', '1');

/***POST AD WIDGET END***/

step 2:copy and paste the below code in the custom.css in thesis theme editor.

/* CODE FOR CUSTOM.CSS FILE*/

.custom #post_ad ul.sidebar_list li.widget h3 {text-indent:0; padding-top:0.2em; color:#111; font-size:15px; font-family:georgia; background:none;}
.custom #post_ad ul.sidebar_list li.widget ul { }

step 3: Now when you do to the widgets option in the appearance tab,you will see a new widget area called post_aboveAd.Now to add advertisement add some text area and paste the html code of the ad in the box and save.

Now you can see the ads above the post title in thesis wordpress theme.

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