HOW TO: display Google AdSense on your wordpress blog

In the process of putting this blog together I’ve learnt a lot about wordpress, themes, plugins and so on, being that this is the first time I decided to try and use it. Interestingly, the thing I had the most issue with was not modifying a theme, installing plugins, modifying layout or anything along those lines, it was getting Google Adsense to display. So I’ve decided to write a brief little how to, for anyone else who is new to Wordpress and wondering how to go about it.