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WordPress plugin Simple Ads Manager

Until recently I used the plugin “Advertising Manager”. However, I am not quite satisfied the set of its capabilities. For example, the inability to display scheduled advertisements, or the inability to display ads in the posts only certain categories. Etc.

That’s why I wrote my own plugin to control the advertising on the blog – Simple Ads Manager. I tried to create a plugin that will satisfy most requests of any blogger to manage advertising on the blog. And I think I managed it.

Simple Ads Manager is easy to use plugin providing a flexible logic of displaying advertisements.

Note: 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).

More info you can find in this article…

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Features

Flexible logic of advertisements rotation based on defined weight of each advertisement in group (Ads Place)
Custom default ad for each Ads Place Allowed types of ad’s codes are HTML, javascript, PHP
Codes of Google DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) supports
More flexibility of displaying ads by using Ads Zone selector
Outputting ads as widget
Outputting ads as shortcodes in any place of single post/page content
Outputting ads in any place of theme template using output functions
Customizable outputting ads as block of ads
Automatic outputting ads in single post/page if allowed
Customizable limitation of displaying advertisements by types of page
Customizable limitation of displaying advertisements on single post page by post ID (IDs)
Customizable limitation of displaying advertisements on single post page or category archive page by category (categories)
Customizable limitation of displaying advertisements on single post page or author archive page by author (authors)
Customizable limitation of displaying advertisements on single post page or tag archive page by tag (tags)
Customizable limitation of displaying advertisements on custom type single post page or custom type archive page by Custom Type (Types)
Customizable blocking of displaying advertisements on single post/page by post/page ID (IDs)
Customizable blocking of displaying advertisements on single post page or category archive page by category (categories)
Customizable blocking of displaying advertisements on single post page or author archive page by author (authors)
Customizable blocking of displaying advertisements on single post page or tag archive page by tag (tags)
Customizable blocking of displaying advertisements on custom type single post page or custom type archive page by Custom Type (Types)
Schedule of displaying each advertisement if allowed
Customizable limitation of displaying advertisements by hits
Customizable limitation of displaying advertisements by clicks
Statistics of hits
Statistics of clicks (your own advertisement image mode)
Customizable accuracy of bots and crawlers detection
Counting revenue from ads placement, display ads and clicks on advertisements

Available languages

English
Russian
German by Fabian Krenzler and Ulrich Simon
Belarusian by Alexander Ovsov (Web Geek Sciense)
Spanish by xiaobai_wp
Italian by Alfredo

The Concept

The main object of the plugin is “Ads Place“. Each Ads Place is a container for the advertisements and provides the logic of the show and rotation. In addition, one of the parameters of advertising space is “patch ad code”, ie ad to be shown if and only if the logic of ads this Ads Place does not permit to show none of the advertisements contained in this Ads Place. One Ads Place can contain any number of objects “advertisement”.

Object “advertisement” rigidly attached to his container “Ads Place”. Its parameters determine frequency (weight) of displaying and limiting displaying from “show all pages” to “show the articles with ID … ” and show from date to date (the schedule).

Additional object “Ads Zone” is selector developed for increasing the flexibility of displaying ads. This optional object can be useful for conducting advertising campaigns using a large number of promotional materials.

The additional object “Ads Block” allows to display the block of advertisements.

Installation

Upload the plugin folder to the folder /wp-content/plugins/
Activate the plugin on the Plugins page
Configure your plugin to meet your needs
Create an Ads Spaces in the right quantity and fill them with advertisements

Options

Go to the page Ads->Settings

Views per Cycle – the number of impressions an ad for one cycle of rotation, provided that this ad has maximum weight (the activity). In other words, if the number of hits in the series is 1000, an ad with a weight of 10 will be shown in 1000, and the ad with a weight of 3 will be shown 300 times.

Do not set this parameter to a value less than the maximum number of visitors which may simultaneously be on your site – it may violate the logic of rotation.

Not worth it, though it has no special meaning, set this parameter to a value greater than the number of hits your web pages during a month. Optimal, perhaps, is the value to the daily shows website pages.

Display Ad Source in – you can display advertisement target in new or current window (tab). Select target window (tab).

Auto Inserting Settings – here you can select the Ads Places and allow the display of their ads before and after the content of single post.

Google DFP Settings – if you want to use codes of Google DFP rotator, you must allow it’s using and define your pub-code.

Statistics Settings

Bots and Crawlers detection

For obtaining of more exact indexes of statistics and incomes it is preferable to exclude data about visits of bots and crawlers from the data about all visits of your blog. If enabled and bot or crawler is detected, hits of ads won’t be counted. Select accuracy of detection but use with caution – more exact detection requires more server resources.

Allow Bots and Crawlers detection – If allowed, hits of detected bot won’t be counted.

Accuracy of Bots and Crawlers Detection:

Inexact detection – This method is based on an analysis of the request header. Inaccurate method.
Exact detection – This method uses the Browser library by Chris Schuld for detection of bots. Recommended.
More exact detection – This method uses “browscap” data for bots detection. Very exact and very slow method. If browscap not defined in your php.ini, this method is unavailable.

Display of Currency:

Auto – auto detection of currency from blog settings.
USD – Forcing the display of currency to U.S. dollars.
EUR – Forcing the display of currency to Euro.

Ads Place creation and configuration

Go to your list of Ads Places (Ads -> Ads Places) and click the “Add New Place”. In the opened editor window configure current Ad Place.

Enter a name and a description of the Ads Place. In principle, it is not mandatory parameters, because these parameters don’t influence anything, but experience suggests that after a while all IDs usually will be forgotten and such information may be useful.

Ads Place Size – in this version is only for informational purposes only, but in future I plan to use this option. It is desirable to expose the real size.

Ads Place Patch – it’s an ad that will appear in the event that the logic of basic ads outputing of this Ads Place on the current page will not be able to choose a single basic ad for displaying. For example, if all basic announcements are set to displaying only on archives pages or single pages, in this case the patch ad of Ads Place will be shown on the Home page. Conveniently to use the patch ad of Ads Place where you sell the advertising place for a limited time – after the time expiration of ordered ad will appear patch ad. It may be a banner leading to your page of advertisement publication costs or a banner from AdSense.

Patch can be defined:

as combination of the image URL and target page URL
as HTML code or javascript code
as name of Google DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) block

If you select the first option (image mode), tools to download/choosing of downloaded image banner become available for you.

Codes – as Ads Place can be inserted into the page code not only as widget, but as a short code or by using function, you can use code “before” and “after” for centering or alignment of Ads Place on the place of inserting or for something else you need. Use HTML tags.

Advertisement creation and configuration

Go to the list of Ads Places (Ads -> Ads Places), move the mouse to the desired Ads Place, select in the row menu that appears “View Ads” for the transition to the advertisements list of this Ads Place or “Add Ad” for the transition to the editor of a new ad. If you went to the list of ads, click on “Add New Ad”.

Enter a name and a description of the advertisement. These parameters are optional, because don’t influence anything, but help in the visual identification of the ad (do not forget which is which).

Ad Code – code can be defined as a combination of the image URL and target page URL, or as HTML code, javascript code, or PHP code (for PHP-code don’t forget to set the checkbox labeled “This code of ad contains PHP script). If you select the first option (image mode) you can keep statistics of clicks and also tools for uploading/selecting the downloaded image banner becomes available to you.

Restrictions of Advertisement Showing

Ad Weight – coefficient of frequency of show of the advertisement for one cycle of advertisements rotation.
0 – ad is inactive, 1 – minimal activity of this advertisement, 10 – maximal activity of this ad.

Restrictions by the type of pages – select restrictions:

Show ad on all pages of blog
Show ad only on pages of this type – ad will appear only on the pages of selected types
Show ad only in certain posts – ad will be shown only on single posts pages with the given IDs (ID items separated by commas, no spaces)

Additional restrictions

Show ad only in single posts or categories archives of certain categories – ad will be shown only on single posts pages or category archive pages of the specified categories
Show ad only in single posts or authors archives of certain authors – ad will be shown only on single posts pages or author archive pages of the specified authors

Use the schedule for this ad – if necessary, select checkbox labeled “Use the schedule for this ad” and set start and finish dates of ad campaign.

Use limitation by hits – Use this parameter for limiting displaying of ad by hits.

Use limitation by clicks – Use this parameter for limiting displaying of ad by clicks.

Prices – your prices for that ad.

Ad placement per month – used only for scheduled ads.
Per Thousand Hits – Not only humans visit your blog, bots and crawlers too. In order not to deceive an advertiser, you must enable the detection of bots and crawlers.
Per Click – To calculate the earnings on clicks, you must enable counting of clicks for that ad.

Ads Zone creation and configuration

Ads Zone is selector that used to select the appropriate Ads Place for each type of displayed page.

Go to your list of Ads Zones (Ads -> Ads Zones) and click the “Add New Zone”. In the opened editor window configure current Ads Zone.

Enter a name and a description of the Ads Zone.

Select default Ads Place.

Select the appropriate Ads Places for each type of page, category or author or leave “Default” value. You can block displaying Ads Place on needed type of page selecting “None” value.

Ads Block creation and configuration

Ads Block used for outputting block of ads.

Go to your list of Ads Blocks (Ads -> Ads Blocks) and click the “Add New Block”. In the opened editor window configure current Ads Block.

Enter a name and a description of the Ads Block.

Enter number of lines and columns of Ads Block. After changing these properties you must save Ads Block settings before using Ads Block Editor.

Configure styles for Ads Block and Block’s items. Use Stylesheet rules for defining these properties. For example: url(sheep.png) center bottom no-repeat for background property or 5px solid red for border property.

Important Note: As the Ads Block is the regular structure, predefined styles of individual items for drawing Ads Block’s elements aren’t used. Define styles for Ads Block Items on Ads Block Editor page!

Customize Ads Block structure (select Ads Place or Ads Zone or Single Ad for each item of block).

Usage

There are three variants for output: widgets, short codes, the function… and auto inserting…

Widgets

Go to the widgets page (Appearance->Widgets). In the area of available widgets locate widget “Ads Place” and drag it to the necessary sidebar. You can also use widgets “Ads Zone” and “Single Ad”.

Configure your widget:

Title – title of widget. If not needed, leave empty.
Ads Place – select Ads Place from a list of all Ads Places.
Hide widget style – in some theme templates it is necessary for the sidebar in the blog header.
Allow using previously defined “before” and “after” codes of Ads Place – these are the codes that are defined for each Ads Place as “code before” and “code after”.

Widgets “Ads Zone” and “Single Ad” can be configured in the same way.

Shortcodes

Shortcode “sam” enables you to insert Ads Place anywhere in the post’s content.

[sam id=1 codes='false']

id – ID of Ads Place
codes – allow or not allow to use Ads Place codes “before” and “after”. Default “false”

Shortcode “sam_zone” enables you to insert Ads Zone anywhere in the post’s content.

[sam_zone id=1 codes='false']

id – ID of Ads Zone
codes – allow or not allow to use Ads Place codes “before” and “after”. Default “false”

Shortcode “sam_ad” enables you to insert Single Ad anywhere in the post’s content.

[sam_ad id=1 codes='false']

id – ID of Ad
codes – allow or not allow to use Ads Place codes “before” and “after”. Default “false”

Shortcode “sam_block” enables you to insert Ads Block anywhere in the post’s content.

[sam_block id=1]

id – ID of Ads Zone

Output functions

In order that would insert Ads in any place of theme template, use the drawAdsPlace, drawAdsZone or drawAd functions.

Output functions are defined as follows:

function drawAdsPlace($args = null, $codes = false)
function drawAdsZone($args = null, $codes = false)
function drawAd($args = null, $codes = false)
function drawAdsBlock($args = null)

function drawAdsPlace($args = null, $codes = false)

function drawAdsZone($args = null, $codes = false)

function drawAd($args = null, $codes = false)

function drawAdsBlock($args = null)

args – array, which may include id (ID of Ads Place) or/and name (the name of Ads Place, not recommended)
codes – bool|array, allow or not allow to use Ads Place codes “before” and “after”. Default “false”. If bool value, codes ‘before’ and ‘after’ will be received from Ads Place record. If array value, codes ‘before’ and ‘after’ will be received from array.

// Ads Place output
if(function_exists('drawAdsPlace')) drawAdsPlace(array('id' => 1), true);
// or
if(function_exists('drawAdsPlace')) drawAdsPlace(array('id' => 1), array('before' => '<div class="ad">', 'after' => '</div>'));
 
// Ads Zone output
if(function_exists('drawAdsZone')) drawAdsZone(array('id' => 1), true);
// or
if(function_exists('drawAdsZone')) drawAdsZone(array('id' => 1), array('before' => '<div class="ad">', 'after' => '</div>'));
 
// Single Ad output
if(function_exists('drawAd')) drawAd(array('id' => 1), true);
// or
if(function_exists('drawAd')) drawAd(array('id' => 1), array('before' => '<div class="ad">', 'after' => '</div>'));
 
// Ads Block output
if(function_exists('drawAdsBlock')) drawAdsBlock(array('id' => 1));

// Ads Place output

if(function_exists('drawAdsPlace')) drawAdsPlace(array('id' => 1), true);

// or

if(function_exists('drawAdsPlace')) drawAdsPlace(array('id' => 1), array('before' => '<div class="ad">', 'after' => '</div>'));

// Ads Zone output

if(function_exists('drawAdsZone')) drawAdsZone(array('id' => 1), true);

// or

if(function_exists('drawAdsZone')) drawAdsZone(array('id' => 1), array('before' => '<div class="ad">', 'after' => '</div>'));

// Single Ad output

if(function_exists('drawAd')) drawAd(array('id' => 1), true);

// or

if(function_exists('drawAd')) drawAd(array('id' => 1), array('before' => '<div class="ad">', 'after' => '</div>'));

// Ads Block output

if(function_exists('drawAdsBlock')) drawAdsBlock(array('id' => 1));

Auto Inserting

Designed for automatic insertion of ad codes before and after the content of single post. Configuring is on plugin settings page.

Miscellaneous

At first glance, it might seem that the plugin is too heavy – as did 500 kb codes. But do not be terrified ahead of time, the plugin is using the technology of saving resources. In other words, in the Face Side is loading only 23 kb of codes, of which 21 kb PHP-code and 2 kb javascript code. Everything else are extentions for the admin mode, and even then, not all are loading en masse, but only if necessary.

Video Lessons:

Donations

Donations List

Many thanks to everyone who supports the development of this plugin:

Michael Kiepert, Andrea Vacondio

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By minimus|2018-05-09T10:27:45+02:00January 1, 2011|Best, Wordpress Plugins|713 Comments

About the Author: minimus

Lead Frontend Developer (React, Node.js) at Digitals Technologies & Platforms. Also: Development using Object Pascal, C#, SQL, PHP, Javascript, TypeScript.

713 Comments

ted metherell July 9, 2013 at 7:58 pm - Reply

well i tryed every thang i could not get it to

work Iapreciate your reply but iv decided to

use oio at least with that i insert code were i whant it to

show and i can show eny were on site

Thank you for your time
Total Comment by ted metherell: 1
Mark July 14, 2013 at 12:54 am - Reply

I’ve seen that some how when ppl see the website on mobile phones it add a code to the index files… is there any update to fix that bug? thank you!
Total Comment by Mark: 1
shu July 18, 2013 at 2:00 am - Reply

Hi. Thanks for this amazing plugin. Exactly what I was looking for. I don’t know why this is happening but I don’t have a box to enter image link. Please see the image.

Total Comments by shu: 2
- shu July 18, 2013 at 2:03 am - Reply
  
  I dont see the image in my comment so here’s a link //i.imgur.com/UeCtUd1.png
  Total Comments by shu: 2
Robyn July 25, 2013 at 7:43 am - Reply

Hi this is a great plugin for ad management.
A good feature would be to be able to schedule the ad display based on a start date and end date. Would you consider this for a future update?
Thanks
Total Comment by Robyn: 1
- minimus July 28, 2013 at 4:59 pm - Reply
  
  Ad Editor -> Extended Restrictions Tab -> Use the schedule for this ad
  - Dennis August 9, 2013 at 3:37 pm - Reply
    
    Hi, I can’t seem to find this Extended Restrictions Tab in the latest plugin version. The only things that are listed are.
    
    Description
    Ad Place Size
    Ad Place Patch
    Codes
    
    Should i remove the plugin and reinstall it?
    
    Total Comments by Dennis: 3
    - minimus August 9, 2013 at 9:19 pm - Reply
      
      This tab exists only for Ads, not for Ads Places…
      - Dennis August 10, 2013 at 9:22 am - Reply
        
        ahh okay i didn’t notice this thanks much.
        Total Comments by Dennis: 3
Kevin July 25, 2013 at 6:34 pm - Reply

Hi Minimus!
We are having an issue with selecting more than 11 categories in our extended restriction tab. If we select 12 categories, it only saves 11 and leaves the 12th unchecked. It will never save 12 or more categories on the restrictions tab in “Show ad only in single posts or categories archives of certain categories”. Any chance you can help us out??
Thanks so much!
Total Comments by Kevin: 2
- minimus July 28, 2013 at 5:03 pm - Reply
  
  Trying to resolve…
Roman July 25, 2013 at 8:54 pm - Reply

Hello,
i am using your Simple Ads Manager and i am totally satisfied. But now, i have a problem. I am trying to upload an swf-file via image code. Unfortunately it won`t be shown. I also have clicked the
“I use (plan to use) my own flash (SWF) banners. In other words, allow loading the script “SWFObject” on the pages of the blog.”
in my extended options. Hope you can help me …

Best regards
Roman
Total Comment by Roman: 1
- minimus July 28, 2013 at 5:05 pm - Reply
  
  Testing… Trying to resolve…
Ray July 29, 2013 at 6:15 pm - Reply

I hope this can be sorted, but when I activate Simple Ads Manager, I am suddenly unable to enter my posts using the wysiwyg editor.
Any options?
Total Comment by Ray: 1
- minimus July 30, 2013 at 4:43 pm - Reply
  
  Disable AdStop (AdBlock, etc) plugin of your browser…
Harold July 31, 2013 at 11:26 am - Reply

First question: Is there a way to disable Simpe Ads Manager from being cached by WP Super Cache.
I keep seeing the same ad until the cache is refreshed?
Second question: Can you make it happen that we can add Ads to the minileve theme of Jetpack?
Total Comments by Harold: 2
- Alberba News August 2, 2013 at 12:11 pm - Reply
  
  I’m having this problem, too. Plugin author needs use JavaScript to dynamically load another ad, I think. I hope he fixes this :S
  Total Comment by Alberba News: 1
David July 31, 2013 at 2:02 pm - Reply

Hi, been using this for a while and it works great. Just recently the ad rotation stopped. THe same ad keeps being served. I tried to insert a timestamp but I don’t really know how. Any other ideas on how to get ads to rotate?
Total Comment by David: 1
peeler1967 August 8, 2013 at 9:30 am - Reply

I was trying to use the ads zone in a widget on front page and got this error:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in/home/content/16/10360016/html/test-site/wp-content/plugins/simple-ads-manager/ad.class.php on line 614Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in/home/content/16/10360016/html/test-site/wp-content/plugins/simple-ads-manager/ad.class.php on line 623
Total Comment by peeler1967: 1
Rachele August 10, 2013 at 12:46 pm - Reply

First I want to say thank you for such an awesome plug-in. I would like to make 2 feature requests for future updates that would be great if they are possible.
1) On the Settings page under “Auto Insert Settings” could there also be a choice for each placement on whether to show up on pages or posts (a tick box to select which one we want) rather than the default of both. I love the auto insert but not on my pages on the top or in the middle. Or the ability to turn off the certain auto placements in the page or post itself.
2) It would be great if there was a way to combine similar Ad Places in the widgets so that I could show ads from multiple Ad Places within the same widget. (Not an Ad Block) For example… I would like to show ads from the Large Rectangle and the Medium Rectangle within the same widget area on my site. (One ad at a time) This way it would rotate ads from both ad places, rather than just one or the other. I don’t want to combine them within the same ad place.
Thank you.
Total Comment by Rachele: 1
Pietro Estrada August 14, 2013 at 7:29 pm - Reply

My pluging is printing
Flash ad ID:56
instead the flash add… 😐 help!!
Total Comment by Pietro Estrada: 1
Jagesh August 16, 2013 at 3:28 pm - Reply

Hi,
Is it possible to show random ads when page reload and limit ads in blocks on widgets?
Please advice

Total Comment by Jagesh: 1
Mehmet August 20, 2013 at 9:36 am - Reply

Hello,
I am using the plugin and I really liked it. But there is smt not working proparly or im doing wrong.Since I want to put different ads to different categories I created 2 different “Ads Places” at the moment but unfortuantely only 1 is showing proparly but not the other one.

Why do you think this happens?
Total Comment by Mehmet: 1
Karl August 25, 2013 at 12:43 am - Reply

I use the widget mode to place the banner at the wp website. At the moment a
selection of the Ad Place not possible, at that place where I like to chose the Ad Place
is an empty field with the length of configured Ad Places.
Total Comments by Karl: 2
Dave September 6, 2013 at 1:58 am - Reply

Everything is working fine except when I place an Ad Place into a widget and then try to use the drop down menu to choose an Ad it’s blank. It works though, and I can count down the number of lines to choose the right ad but I can’t see the names. Is there a know plugin incompatibility list anywhere, or has anyone else had this problem? WordPress 3.6 hosted on my own server. PH 5.4 3
Total Comments by Dave: 5
Maddew September 6, 2013 at 2:54 am - Reply

I love the plugin, but I cannot get my ads to display at the proper “weight” on the home page. They function and rotate properly throughout the whole website, but not the home page. For example I have two image ads and a Google ad for my top banner. They rotate evenly on all pages of the website, but on the home page the Google ad dominates the spot at least 90% of the time. Is there something I am missing?
Total Comment by Maddew: 1
Dave September 12, 2013 at 12:59 pm - Reply

Does anyone know if a new update past 1.7.6 is in the works, especially to fix the drop down menus that are show showing the names of Ad Places, Ad Zones, or Ad Blocks? I’m using this plugin and it is remarkable, I will gladly pay for it, but it has to be fixed. I have 11 Ads up, and sooner rather than later there will be more, which will make it impossible to properly count the number of blank lines in order to choose the right Ad. We need a fix, please. Or a list of incompatible plugins that might be breaking the plugin. – Thank you, Dave
Total Comments by Dave: 5
Tobbi September 14, 2013 at 7:50 pm - Reply

Thanks for this great plugin.

suggestion for new function:
Would be great to have similar feature like in the “Ozh’ who sees ads plugin”: To restrict, who sees ads, for instance only users came from a search engine, but not regular users. Or to show ads only on posts older than 2 years.

Total Comments by Tobbi: 3
- minimus September 14, 2013 at 8:29 pm - Reply
  
  Thanks! Added to TODO list.
  - Tobbi September 15, 2013 at 11:16 am - Reply
    
    Thanks minimus, sounds great! 🙂
    Total Comments by Tobbi: 3
nicky October 7, 2013 at 1:12 pm - Reply

Hi I have just installed the plugin works pretty well so far one issue I have. For some reason on the ads places section in the wordpress backend my 1 active add isn’t displaying so that I can select it to view the number of hits the ads have had and the rest of the settings. I can edit and view the ad under other sections and it is still working on the site.

Thanks
Total Comment by nicky: 1
- Courtois January 8, 2014 at 5:15 pm - Reply
  
  I am also experiencing the same Issue! I need to report the clicks and this is not good! HELP!
  I’ve installed the latest version of WordPress and the Ad Library plugin… and the documentation indicates it has been tested with the latest version fo WordPress!
  
  Total Comments by Courtois: 5
  - minimus January 8, 2014 at 6:37 pm - Reply
    
    Sorry, forgot to change this part of query…
    - Courtois January 8, 2014 at 6:44 pm - Reply
      
      So what does that mean? are you going to fix it? Release a patch? whats the timeframe on this?
      Thank you.
      Total Comments by Courtois: 5
      - minimus January 8, 2014 at 7:35 pm - Reply
        
        Fixed… Testing now…
        
        Courtois January 9, 2014 at 5:34 pm - Reply
        
        Hi Minimus:
        Unfortunately it still does not appear to be fixed on my site. Do i need to download a new version? Please let me know .
        Thank you.
        Total Comments by Courtois: 5
        
        minimus January 10, 2014 at 2:11 pm - Reply
        
        Beta! Upload to your site manualy.
        
        Courtois January 10, 2014 at 7:23 pm - Reply
        
        Thank you!
        Now where do i find the beta version?
        Thanks!
        Total Comments by Courtois: 5
        
        Courtois January 13, 2014 at 5:57 pm - Reply
        
        Ok NeverMind was able to find the BETA version and install.
        UNFORTUNATELY DID NOT FIX THE PROBLEM!
        PLEASE HELP!
        Total Comments by Courtois: 5
Tobbi October 11, 2013 at 8:08 pm - Reply

Hi,
another idea: Possibility to deactivate banners directly in certain posts/pages, not only deactives posts in banner option (because list of posts can become very, very long)
Total Comments by Tobbi: 3
Amy October 14, 2013 at 4:22 pm - Reply

We use this for a company who has different ads for different days of the week. Any chance you will be adding this capability to the plugin to schedule ads to show on Mondays or whatever?
Thanks,
Amy
Total Comment by Amy: 1
- minimus October 15, 2013 at 8:05 pm - Reply
  
  Hmm… Interesting… May be…
Enrico Borowiak October 18, 2013 at 2:07 pm - Reply

Hello,

great Plugin, concrats ….

The Code will not work … , i don´t have a header widget.

Here is my header.php

{ifset $themeOptions->advertising->showBox1}
<div id=”advertising-box-1″ class=”advertising-box”>
<div class=”defaultContentWidth clearfix”>
<div> XXX HERE I WOLD LIKE THE BANNER PLACES XXX </div>
{/ifset}
Total Comment by Enrico Borowiak: 1
- minimus October 19, 2013 at 10:16 pm - Reply
  
  Replace XXX HERE I WOLD LIKE THE BANNER PLACES XXX with <?php if(function_exists('drawAdsPlace')) drawAdsPlace(array('id' => 1), true); ?>. Do not forget to change id to real id of your Ads Place!
Chris October 24, 2013 at 8:40 pm - Reply

Hey, Thanks for the plugin, working great. Where do I find clickthroughs? I can see the total number of hits, but can’t find the clickthroughs.
Total Comment by Chris: 1
- minimus October 25, 2013 at 8:44 pm - Reply
  
  Total clicks are not counted, search clickthroughs on Items List page of each Ads Place…
Mark November 3, 2013 at 1:00 pm - Reply

Hi minimus, can advertisers buy space directly through Simple Ads Manager?
Thanks.
Total Comments by Mark: 3
- minimus November 4, 2013 at 7:58 am - Reply
  
  Not now! This feature will be available at future version (2.0).
  - Mark November 4, 2013 at 5:02 pm - Reply
    
    Thanks. How far away is 2.0?
    Total Comments by Mark: 3
    - minimus November 5, 2013 at 10:55 am - Reply
      
      In progress … GitHub
Dave November 3, 2013 at 4:25 pm - Reply

I may have missed this, but is there any way for the client to see the performance of the Ad? I have a client who wants to track it daily, and wants a URL he can go to in order to see it. Is this built in? Will it? – Thanks as always – John and Dave Spinfuel
Total Comments by Dave: 5
- minimus November 4, 2013 at 8:00 am - Reply
  
  Hi, Dave! This feature will be available as SAM addon in version 2.0. Coming soon…
Frank November 5, 2013 at 2:25 pm - Reply

I seem to have a problem targeting more than 10 categories for a single ad… somewhere to adjust this ? When trying to add the eleventh it will not save that, and only the previous 10 is still selected.

Seems like a bug, or is it a pre-defined limit
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Dennis November 7, 2013 at 10:51 am - Reply

Hi, Can you tell me how to prevent an ad in an AD from showing up on in the sidebar more than once if I have a widget for AdPlace listed in four widgets, I wanted to show multiple ads from one of the AdPlace sizes but it sometimes loads one AD 2/3 times and ignores the rest. I have tried setting the availability to something lower than Maximum in the AD area but still doesn’t work out.
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sonson November 7, 2013 at 7:27 pm - Reply

I have entered an email with the advertiser earning settings, but unfortunately, the advertiser gets no repot-mail. What did I do wrong? Is there a report to send to advertisers other ways?There are many light rules manager where you can create a user-Advertiser, where the advertiser only aht access to the Ads Manager. and nothing else. But it would be very good if the advertiser would get a report mail regularly!
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Merianos Nikos November 26, 2013 at 9:03 pm - Reply

Hello,
I have find this plugin, and Just it is perfect !!! 🙂 It is even better than the commercial plugins in the most famous market places in the world.
Unfortunatelly it looks like does not support ads in archive pages of custom taxonomies.
I already have made some hack in your code, in order to allow the load of the custom taxonomy terms in the section “Show ad only in single posts or categories archives of certain categories:“.
Until here my hack works fine, but then I cannot display the ad in the appropriate term page.
In the Ad settings, under the General tab I have choose the “Show ad only on pages of this type:” and just for test, I have choose any available type, as well, I have try to only choose the “Taxonomy Archive Pages“.
Then in the extended restritions tab, I have made the selections as described above.
Unfortunatelly, I cannot find out what’s wrong with that. While I can see the Patch image, in the adPlace, I cannot see the Ad for this place.
Any information will be appreciated accordingly !! 🙂
Thanks a lot for your code …. 😉
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- minimus November 27, 2013 at 9:18 am - Reply
  
  In progress…
  - Merianos Nikos November 27, 2013 at 5:20 pm - Reply
    
    I am trying to Fork on your project, in order to make the Greek Translation of your plugin and I can’t.
    Is there anything wrong with your repository, or just the GitHub has stop responding ?
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    - minimus November 27, 2013 at 9:29 pm - Reply
      
      Hmm! Forked…
    - minimus November 27, 2013 at 9:40 pm - Reply
      
      Don’t hurry with the translation. It is version in development – phrases can change in process.
      - Merianos Nikos November 28, 2013 at 9:28 am - Reply
        
        Ok, thanks . . . . !!! 🙂
        Because I already have installed the plugin on the web site of client of mine, do you have any plan for te next version that will support the custom taxonomies 😕 Or, is it possible to give me instructions for temporary hack until the new version released ?
        
        Kind regards and thank a lot for your assistance … !! 🙂
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        minimus November 28, 2013 at 8:18 pm - Reply
        
        I need 2..3 days to finish development of this feature in new version of plugin. But official release will be when I finish development of all planned features. In any case You can download stable version of plugin on GitHub (development version).
        
        Merianos Nikos November 29, 2013 at 9:42 am - Reply
        
        You are just the best …. !! 🙂
        
        Thanks a lot and I am sorry for the extra presure I am giving to you. I will try to help you with translation, and/or with code development 🙂
        
        Have a nice day .. !
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        Merianos Nikos December 8, 2013 at 12:47 pm - Reply
        
        Hi minimus, I just doenloaded the latest developer version from GitHub. I am sending this comment just to ask if the code related to custom taxonomy is ok. I cannot see any progress, I have change again the source code in order to allow the custom post terms come in my admin panel, but still in the front there is no any effect.
        
        Sorry for asking so frequently, but just I am interested for it 🙂 Also you are able to inform me when the latest version get released, in order to help with Greek translation.
        
        Kind regards
        Merianos Nikos
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        minimus December 8, 2013 at 9:04 pm - Reply
        
        Just now I finished developing cache compatibility and hit/click tracker. And now I start work with custom taxonomies… TODO List.
        Don’t worry, all will be right!
        
        Merianos Nikos December 9, 2013 at 5:53 pm - Reply
        
        Thanks a lot and again sorry for the extra presure I am giving to you.
        
        Kind regards
        Merianos Nikos
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