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?
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.
Yeah I might, that would make it more complete.
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.
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!
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.
Hey everyone, that’s some great input, thanks!
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.
Same here. If it has more (and better) functions I’m willing to pay for it.
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?
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 ;-)
How about a nofollow checkbox? Alt text?
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.
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!
anybody know a widget that not “randomize the ad positions” ?
I wanna control the ads, to only show up in specific posts
Where i can get that Plugin Buddy.
Hi Joost,
Where’s the download link???
Cheers,
http://www.drbolsa.com
Have you removed the plugin?
Cheers,
http://www.secretia.com
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.
Where’s the download link?
Thanks!!
I could not find the plug in… where is it?
I am having the same problem. Where is the download link?