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Ads Widget for WordPress
A 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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by Chris on 8 February, 2008 at 14:01
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.
by Joost de Valk on 8 February, 2008 at 15:31
Yeah I might, that would make it more complete.
by Matt Algren on 8 February, 2008 at 16:26
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.
by Matt L. on 8 February, 2008 at 17:41
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!
by Emma on 8 February, 2008 at 20:05
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 125x125's in a row. So I could have 2 rows with six squares.
by Joost de Valk on 8 February, 2008 at 20:22
Hey everyone, that's some great input, thanks!
by Jeremy on 8 February, 2008 at 23:55
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.
by Karel Geenen on 10 February, 2008 at 14:32
Same here. If it has more (and better) functions I'm willing to pay for it.
by youfoundjake on 12 February, 2008 at 01:24
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?
by Sudar on 12 February, 2008 at 09:00
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 ;-)
by Liam Delahunty on 13 February, 2008 at 04:00
How about a nofollow checkbox? Alt text?
by Gary R. Hess on 18 February, 2008 at 20:58
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.
by El_Vikingo on 5 March, 2008 at 04:21
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!
by emalker on 14 May, 2008 at 10:13
anybody know a widget that not "randomize the ad positions" ?
I wanna control the ads, to only show up in specific posts
by Shanker Bakshi on 15 November, 2008 at 11:21
Where i can get that Plugin Buddy.
by Diego on 27 April, 2009 at 16:02
Hi Joost,
Where's the download link???
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by cyrik on 27 April, 2009 at 16:11
Have you removed the plugin?
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by gweedo on 5 May, 2009 at 19:01
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.
by Bob on 1 June, 2009 at 04:19
Where's the download link?
Thanks!!
by Jinsen Karedath on 16 October, 2009 at 08:03
I could not find the plug in... where is it?
by AzureBright on 19 November, 2009 at 20:50
I am having the same problem. Where is the download link?