Title: Adsense basic question
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Adsense basic question

 *  [bw12944](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bw12944/)
 * (@bw12944)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adsense-basic-question/)
 * Hi,
    Should I be able to use Adsense with WordPress without downloading a plugin?
   I tried and got a syntax error. I don’t actually have permission to download 
   plugins on the site that Im working on so I am hoping there is some workaround.
   Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Barbara

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 *  [drstir](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drstir/)
 * (@drstir)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adsense-basic-question/#post-875975)
 * I’m a complete novice at WordPress, but I managed to get Adsense on my pages 
   just by putting Google’s script within the footer template: [http://crimealerts.org.uk/](http://crimealerts.org.uk/)
 * Hope that helps.
 * David
 *  Thread Starter [bw12944](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bw12944/)
 * (@bw12944)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adsense-basic-question/#post-875977)
 * Thank you.. Did you put the code in “footer.php” or something like that?
    Did
   you just cut and paste from what Google generated or did you have to do anything
   special?
 *  [drstir](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drstir/)
 * (@drstir)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adsense-basic-question/#post-875989)
 * Hi Barbara
    I’ve been playing around with the templates to create my own customised
   design – it’s fairly easy (if you don’t want anything too fancy). It’s just a
   case of splitting the design you want into three basic chunks – the header, sidebar
   and footer. And then fiddling around with the page-building templates that use
   those three – index.php, single.php, search.php and page.php. You can copy and
   paste the Google code wherever you want. For my site, I put it in the footer –
   but you could just as easily put it in the header or sidebar. It seems to work
   all right – but I’m a real beginner at this so could be missing something really
   obvious which will cause it all to fall apart! I used the most basic theme I 
   could find – Bob-la-simple – to work with. But I just checked out the [theme library](http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/)
   and couldn’t find it. Not sure why. Good luck!

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