Published my new plugin SAM Pro (Free Edition). This plugin is a successor of the Simple Ads Manager plugin. At first glance it might seem that plugin SAM Pro (Free Edition) is a repetition of his ancestor, but it’s not. The new plugin uses a different data structure that allows to increase its performance. In addition, increased security measures from possible hacking attacks. Also solved the problem of statistics and counting clicks.
New plugin is the replacement of the Simple Ads Manager. In other words, the development of Simple Ads Manager will not continue. I am not remove it from the repository only because there are a lot of servers running under PHP 5.2. SAM Pro requires PHP 5.3 and later.
System requirements
Server:
- PHP 5.3+
- MySQL 5.1+
- 128 MB memory limit
Admin Client Side:
- At least 2 Mbit data transfer rate
- Any Modern Browser
Visitor Client Side:
- No limits
Features
- Flexible logic of the banners rotation based on the ad weight and the restrictions
- Ad rotation by page refresh
- Scheduling and limitations by impressions/clicks.
- Restrictions by the site page types.
- Restrictions by posts/pages ids, categories, tags, custom taxonomies terms, custom post types.
- The automatic embedding of ads into the content of posts/pages.
- Any type of ads (Image, Flash, JS, PHP, etc.) supported
- Outputting using widgets, shortcodes and functions is available.
- Customizable accuracy of the bots and crawlers detection
- Full statistics of the impressions and clicks
- Safe data migration from the Simple Ads Manager plugin.
- Google DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) supported (GPT and GAM)
- Any caching plugins supported
- bbPress supported
- Wptouch supported
- Localization ready
- Addons API
Documentation
Documentation is available on the official website of the plugin. All information is presented in English. Translation using the Bing translation system is available by clicking the “translate” button at the top of the right sidebar.
- Installation
- Settings
- Ads
- Ad Editor
- Places
- Place Editor
- Zones
- Zone Editor
- Blocks
- Block Editor
- Advertisers
- Statistics
- Tools
- Outputting Ads on the Site
- Migrate Data from Simple Ads Manager
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It’s possible to embed responsive ads with this plugin?
Total Comment by Prestiti inpdap: 1
This plugin not sets image sizes directly. If your theme is responsive, ads served by this plugin will also be responsive.
First: Your work is amazing, thanks!!!
Then, i need to ask you a question about moving from Simple Ads Manager to SAM Free. Is there any help or recomendation to migrate from one to the other.
I saw this recommendation and i want to change:
Now this plugin is partially deprecated. If your site works under PHP 5.3 or later version (include PHP 7.0) it is better to use SAM Pro (Free Edition).
We’re working with php 5.6
Thanks. Best Regards
Total Comment by homer: 1
No additional recommendations. Just follow the instructions.
Hi Minimus,
Thanks for sharing the ads manager plugin information. I will try it on my blog. I have installed WPForms Lite plugin. You should give it a try:
//wordpress.org/plugins/wpforms-lite/
Total Comment by John Andrew: 1
Hey, is there an option to display the “real” link also in the source code? I don’t get it but my source code only shows this
[xhtml]
[/xhtml]
and not the real link. To confirm the implementation of a link by a tool of an advertiser I need it to be also in the source code.
Total Comment by Nils: 1
I do not understand what you want. Try to write more specifically.
Hi,
I am trying to migrate my ads from Simple Ads Manager to SAM Pro. When I click the button I get the following message:
The options of Simple Ads Manager are successfully migrated. Data: Something went wrong. More information in the error log…
In the error log next to the wp_sampro_ads table I get “Unknown column ‘sa.ad_swf_fallback’ in ‘field list'”
Please can you tell me how to fix this…
Thank you
Total Comments by Chris: 3
What version of Simple Ads Manager you use?
Version 2.2.80 – though I updated to this plugin recently. The site has been using Simple Ads Manager for maybe 4 years already…
Total Comments by Chris: 3
Upgrade SAM plugin from the GitHub to the latest version and try again…
Thank you, that worked!
Total Comments by Chris: 3
Hey. Issue on placement of advertising. Blocks are placed on the page and articles at the same time. How to make sure that the blocks were only in articles. ???
Total Comments by 2Capitales: 3
Use Places in the Block. For Ads in Places use the restriction for showing an ads only in the articles…
Hey. The point is that I do so. Put after the article. But in your plugin there is one but. There is written like this – Allow embedding of Ad object after post/page content
here is the link. Here so it turns out.
Total Comments by 2Capitales: 3
Мне кажется, что, если Вы будете писать по-русски, то Вам будет легче объяснить мне в чём заключается Ваша проблема… Другими словами – я ничего не понял…
Привет. все просто.
Хочу чтобы баннеры отражались только в статьях (после материала) но этого достигнуть не возможно. так как баннер появляется и на страницах.
вот две ссылки:
на страницу и на материал
и при попадании на страницу он отображается не понятно как. С БОКУ и не реагирует на выравнивание по середине.
Самое интересное, что при постановки баннера в середину он стоит именно там и на страницу не попадает.
как быть?
Total Comments by 2Capitales: 3
Hi, is it possible to change the currency to Indonesia Rupiah (IDR)
Total Comment by Tondo Susanto: 1
I have a problem, and can’t find the solution
Ther error is : Failed to load plugin url: //www.veronvrzatwente.nl/wp-content/plugins/sam-pro-free/js/langs/nl.js
But there is no such file as nl.js
Total Comment by erik: 1