Ads Widget for WordPress

Ads Widget for WordPressA quick post to show you a widget I’ve been working on for the last few days: a widget to ad ads to your sidebar, which I’m actually using in the sidebar. You can see the back-end interface for it on the right. It has a few options:

  • randomize the ad positions
  • shows an “advertise here”button
  • add styling to your images
  • add specific styling to the advertise here button
  • just type in the ad image URL, and the destination URL

Currently it allows for four ads, but I’m thinking of a way to make it allow for as much ads as you want. I’m wondering: what would you be wanting from such a widget? And would you be willing to pay for it?

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21 Responses

  1. ChrisBy Chris on 8 February, 2008

    Are you planning to add any reporting features? I’ve been using http://thesandbox.wordpress.com/wpads/ for a while now for serving up simple ads and it’s been working perfectly.

  2. Joost de ValkBy Joost de Valk on 8 February, 2008

    Yeah I might, that would make it more complete.

  3. Matt AlgrenBy Matt Algren on 8 February, 2008

    Nice. I’ve used Ad Rotator, which allows you to randomize formatted text as well as images. It also permits multiple instances on a sidebar.

    Yours has a much more intuitive backend for those who don’t know their way around html.

  4. Matt L.By Matt L. on 8 February, 2008

    A feature I might like in a widget such as this would be when you setup an ad, you can enter how many days it is to be up (for example: 30). Then when those days run up, it automatically goes back to a ‘advertise here’ picture which links to the advertise page.

    I look forward to seeing the end results!

  5. EmmaBy Emma on 8 February, 2008

    Actually I’ve been looking for something like this. I have a wide side bar so I would like to be able to add 3 125×125′s in a row. So I could have 2 rows with six squares.

  6. Joost de ValkBy Joost de Valk on 8 February, 2008

    Hey everyone, that’s some great input, thanks!

  7. JeremyBy Jeremy on 8 February, 2008

    Yeah, I’d definitely be interested and I think it would be most beneficial if you incorporated some of the above suggestions, such as when the ad is to expire, and some reporting. How many clicks, time of clicks vs. position. In terms of payment, I’d pay a couple dollars if it had those benefits.

  8. Karel GeenenBy Karel Geenen on 10 February, 2008

    Same here. If it has more (and better) functions I’m willing to pay for it.

  9. youfoundjakeBy youfoundjake on 12 February, 2008

    If I don’t wanna pay for it, will you still release it? heeh
    I do like the idea of setting the time amount for each ad, maybe with the option of building a queue for next months ads?

  10. SudarBy Sudar on 12 February, 2008

    Joost,

    There is a small type in the first paragraph. It is “widget to add ads to your sidebar” and not “widget to ad ads to your sidebar“.

    People say, I have eagle eyes ;-)

  11. Liam DelahuntyBy Liam Delahunty on 13 February, 2008

    How about a nofollow checkbox? Alt text?

  12. Gary R. HessBy Gary R. Hess on 18 February, 2008

    In the plugin I created, Random Ads, you insert the ad html into a textarea separated by EndAd so the plugin can put it into an array and spit it back out randomized. That way you don’t have to worry about a set amount of ads to be shown, it can be two or forty and it still looks good using floats.

  13. El_VikingoBy El_Vikingo on 5 March, 2008

    Hey Joost,

    Would it be possible to show ads somehow matching up with the visitors search queries and/or geo location?
    Thanks for an AWESOME blog!

  14. emalkerBy emalker on 14 May, 2008

    anybody know a widget that not “randomize the ad positions” ?

    I wanna control the ads, to only show up in specific posts

  15. Shanker BakshiBy Shanker Bakshi on 15 November, 2008

    Where i can get that Plugin Buddy.

  16. DiegoBy Diego on 27 April, 2009

    Hi Joost,
    Where’s the download link???
    Cheers,
    http://www.drbolsa.com

  17. cyrikBy cyrik on 27 April, 2009

    Have you removed the plugin?

    Cheers,

    http://www.secretia.com

  18. gweedoBy gweedo on 5 May, 2009

    Would be cool to do an upload directly from the backend right into the ad slot. Other than that, looks awesome. Willing to pay? $10-$15 for it to be done in 5 minutes versus a half hour? No brainer.

  19. BobBy Bob on 1 June, 2009

    Where’s the download link?

    Thanks!!

  20. Jinsen KaredathBy Jinsen Karedath on 16 October, 2009

    I could not find the plug in… where is it?

  21. AzureBrightBy AzureBright on 19 November, 2009

    I am having the same problem. Where is the download link?