Sridhar Katakam

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How to add affiliate links disclosure notice above the content on single Posts in Genesis

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In Genesis Facebook group a user asks:

Hi everyone I’m wondering which genesis hook are would be best for a blanket affiliate links disclosure across by blog posts on my blog. They need to be at the top for Australia but I don’t want them being in my excerpts.

We can add custom HTML content above the content using the genesis_before_entry_content action hook and restrict it to single Posts using an if conditional.

Step 1

Add the following in child theme’s functions.php:

add_action( 'genesis_before_entry_content', 'custom_affiliate_disclosure' );
/**
 * Add custom affiliate link disclosure notice above the content on single Posts.
 */
function custom_affiliate_disclosure() {
    // if this is not a single Post, abort.
    if ( ! is_singular(  'post' ) ) {
        return;
    } ?>

    <div class="affiliate-disclosure-notice">
        <p>This post may contain affiliate links. <a href="#">Click here</a> to find out more about this.</p>
    </div>
<?php }

Change the HTML to your desired content.

Step 2

Add the following in child theme’s style.css:

.affiliate-disclosure-notice {
    margin-bottom: 30px;
    padding: 12px;
    border: 1px solid #e2e2e2;
    background-color: #eee;
    font-size: 16px;
    font-style: italic;
    text-align: center;
}

.affiliate-disclosure-notice p:last-child {
    margin-bottom: 0;
}

    • Yes.

      Try adding this in functions.php instead:

      add_action( 'genesis_before_entry_content', 'custom_affiliate_disclosure' );
/**
 * Add custom affiliate link disclosure notice above the content on single Posts as long as they are not in the `category-slug` category.
 */
function custom_affiliate_disclosure() {
    // if this is not a single Post, abort.
    if ( ! is_singular(  'post' ) ) {
        return;
    }

    // if in `category-slug` category, abort.
    if ( in_category( 'category-slug' ) ) {
        return;
    } ?>

    <div class="affiliate-disclosure-notice">
        <p>This post may contain affiliate links. <a href="#">Click here</a> to find out more about this.</p>
    </div>
<?php }

      Replace category-slug with the slug of your category.

      Reply

  • Sridhar – you’ve given updated code for excluding a specific category – what would I do it have it apply to one category only. I keep messing up my conditional coding…

    Reply

    • Try this:

      add_action( 'genesis_before_entry_content', 'custom_affiliate_disclosure' );
/**
 * Add custom affiliate link disclosure notice above the content on single Posts.
 */
function custom_affiliate_disclosure() {

    if ( is_singular( 'post' ) && in_category( 'category-slug' ) ) { ?>
        <div class="affiliate-disclosure-notice">
            This post may contain affiliate links. <a href="#">Click here</a> to find out more about this.
        </div>
    <?php }

}

      Replace category-slug with the slug of your category.

      Reply

  • I’ve copied both steps into my function.php and style.css. The disclosure shows in my post, but the text style hasn’t changed. Any idea why this would be?

    Reply
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