Simple Ads Manager

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

Features

• Flexible logic of advertisements rotation based on defined weight of each advertisement in group (Ads Place)
• Custom default ad for each Ads Place
• Codes of Google DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) supports
• More flexibility of displaying ads by using Ads Zone selector
• Allowed types of ad's codes are HTML, javascript, PHP
• 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 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/page 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 advertisment if allowed
• Customizable limitation of displaying advertisements by hits
• Customizable limitation of displaying advertisements by clicks
• Statistics of hits
• Statistics of clicks (excluding iframes and swf-banners)
• Customizable accuracy of bots and crawlers detection
• Counting revenue from ads placement, display ads and clicks on advertisement
• Compatible with all caching plugins

Requirements

• PHP 5.2.14+

Available languages

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

If you have created your own language pack, or have an update of an existing one, you can send .po and .mo files to me (minimus AT simplelib.com) so that I can bundle it into Simple Ads Manager plugin pack.

Read more about Simple Ads Manager on the plugin page...

Installation

1. Upload plugin dir (simple-ads-manager) to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. Change and save plugin settings if needed.
4. Create Ads Places and define ads codes for each rotating ad of Ads Place.

Do not upgrade this plugin from Update page! Upgrade it from Plugins page!

Change log

1.8.72

• Javascript output of ads (for caching compatibility) is added
• Custom Taxonomies restrictions are added
• Building query for SQL request is optimised
• Admin interface is improved
• Loading/Selecting banners (Image Mode) from Wordpress Media Library is added
• Updater is fixed and improved
• Language pack folder is added
• bbPress support is added
• Some bugs are fixed

1.7.63

• Some bugs (Ads Block style, Click Tracker) are resolved.

1.7.61

• Some bugs are resolved.

1.7.60

• Minor bug is resolved (Ads Places List)

1.7.58

• Major bug is resolved (bug of database creating, not database updating)

1.7.57

• Data updating bugs of editors are fixed. Thanks to Latibro.
• Control of Error Log is added.
• Strange bug ("undefined post ID") is fixed.

1.6.54

• Error Log is improved.
• Click Tracker is improved.
• Ads Block output bug is fixed.
• Ad Widget bug is fixed

1.5.50

• Error log is added
• User interface of Ads Editor is improved
• Categories and Tags identification is changed from name to slug
• Flash (SWF) banners support is added
• Limitations of displaying ads to users are added
• Accessing menu settings are added

1.4.44

• Minor bug (activity of ad in ads list) is fixed.
• Auto insertion of ad into the middle of post/page is added.
• Language pack is updated. Spanish language by xiaobai_wp is added.

1.3.41

• Minor bug fixed. Now you can define all possible limitations for Custom Types Posts too.

1.2.40

• MultiSite support is added. Thanks to meermedia.
• Major bug is fixed

1.1.38

• Language pack is updated. Belarusian by Alexander Ovsov is added
• TinyMCE plugin's button modes (modern, classic) are added
• Some fixes are made

1.0.35

• System of Checking Errors is added.
• Some minor improvements are made.

1.0.33

• Ads Blocks object is added.
• Ads Blocks widget is added.
• Custom Types supporting is added.
• Limitations by tags are added.
• Some improvements are added.
• Some fixes are made.

0.6.25

• Language pack was updated by Ulrich Simon (German Language).
• Some fixes are made.

0.6.23

• Click counting bug is fixed.

0.5.22

• Language pack is updated. German by Fabian Krenzler is added.

0.5.21

• Update bug fixed

0.5.20

• SQL queries are improved and optimised
• Ads Zone selector are added
• New widgets (Ads Zone and Single Ad) are added
• New limitations are added

0.4.16

• Ads management bug for Wordpress database with non "wp_" prefix are fixed

0.4.15

• Detection of Bots and Crawlers with customizable accuracy is added
• Limitations by hits and clicks are added
• Pricing by placement, hits and clicks are added
• Earnings counting is added

0.3.10

• Supporting of Google DFP codes is added
• Contextual Help is added
• Some codes are optimised

0.2.6

• Restriction of displaying ads by categories is changed
• Restriction of displaying ads by authors is added
• Some codes are changed

0.1.3

• Minor bug (using "drawAdsPlace()" with the attribute "name") are fixed. Thanks to orangefinch.

0.1.2

• Ads management bug for Wordpress database with non "wp_" prefix are fixed

0.1.1

• Initial upload