Ad Rotator

my site admin in 2.1 does not have a presentation/sidebar widgets section, and this plugin pushes the sidebar out of alignment

Looks like your theme does not supports widgets at all. In this case Ad Rotator is used and can’t break down your sidebar alignment.

Is there a way to force the change of ad on every refresh?

Random block is shown on each request. It’s possible that sometimes ad would be repeated, but usually random HTML would be displayed.

Thanks for this. It works well aside from a small problem I’m having where sometimes I get a blank space where the ad should be.

I’m wondering if I’m doing something wrong or if it’s some kind of timing problem. Should the <!--more--> delimiter only appear after the code chunks?

Any ideas?

Thanks

Gary

It should appear between code chunks. It is just divider and separates chunks between each other. Therefor if you would past it after all chunks, blank area would be displayed sometimes because Ad Rotator would think that another chunk exists after last one. Just for example:

This is correct using of plugin. And here is another wrong one:

In the first case you have two chunks, in the second case there are three chunks exists, and one of them is blank.

Hi,
is this widget supporting <code> tags?

I am trying to steer it to my wordpress theme directory using <code></code>

Cheers

Yes. It supports all HTML tags.

I was wondering how to add additional Ad Rotator widgets to my sidebar?

Wow never mind. Guess I should have scrolled down a bit :)

For some reason, this code:
<a href=”http://www.noliberties.com/” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://www.noliberties.com/img/banners/tl_skyscraper.jpg” alt=”Taking Liberties” width=”160″ height=”600″ border=”0″ /></a>

is being rendered as

<div class=”adrotatorwidget”><a href=”http://www.noliberties.com/”><!– –></a></div>
</li>

by both this and the text box plugin. It’s driving me crazy… and so am removing the widget for now.

Any idea? As it seems insane not to be able to easily display arbitrary html snippets!

Thanks.

Dmytro,

AdRotator was working great for me until I “upgraded” to WP2.2 – now my (paid for) content isn’t showing up, even though the proper html is in AdRotator boxes.

Has anyone else mentioned this?

It turns out that whatever html is in AdRotator Widget #1 is displayed on every other widget even if the html they contain are different…

I’ve used this fantastic widget/plugin for a few weeks and it works great.

However, Fantastico recommended that I upgrade my Wordpress install from 2.1.3 to 2.2, and when I did the Ad Rotator instances that I have running in my sidebar turned into duplicates. So, instead of running Ad Rotator Widgets 1, 2, and 3. It just displays the content for Ad Rotator Widget 1 three different times.

Anyone else run into this?

Thanks!
Josh

It was a known problem with the widgets.php apparently. You can download and replace the file here

Thanks Lex! That worked!

I am working with a fresh install of Wordpress 2.2 (about a week old) and I just installed Adrotator. It installed fine and I put the widget in the sidebar but the title is the only thing that appears. In Firefox, I get nothing at all and in IE I get a broken link symbol. I tried downloading that new widgets.php file, but it didn’t change anything. Any other suggestions?

Hello,

I want to confirm that all code chunks as described below go in the function widget_adrotator_control($number) section.

Following that, the next step is to insert the code add_action(‘plugins_loaded’, ‘widget_adrotator_init’);
to the sidebar and then paste the adrotator code to the correct section of the sidebar.

I hope this makes some sense.

Can anyone tell me why the limit is 9 ad rotator widgets?

Any way of upping that limit?

Hi.

Is this plugin still being supported and updated?

In version 2.3 of Wordpress the plugin has a small issue. You can no longer grab and drag the mouse across to select the code when editing an instance of the rotator.

Try editing your code in the box, you’ll see what I mean.

This is my favourite plugin and is so versatile I’m hoping for an upgrade…

cheers!

Hi Neil, I have planned update to the end of this week.

Hi. I’m a first time user and a total novice. I cannot save the new ads to my widget. I open the code pop up, delete my old code, add the new code and then close the window. That should be it right? When I do this the new ads don’t save. I’ve cleared my cache and cookies and still nothing. Please can you help?!

Lisa… once you’ve closed the window you have to do a save updates….

Great and easy to use widget – but, just a question, how do I add another instance of the Widget? I tried renaming and uploading another file but it isn’t showing in the list. Probably obvious ot seasoned WP users but it’s got me stumped!

Oops figured it out! Forgot to activate the new AdRotator in the Plugins… duh (well I’m over 50 gimme a break)

Oops agin, no it doesn’t work in 2.3 – plugin generated a fatal error… is this what will be fixed in the new release maybe? But still happy that it works so well!

This pluggin is working great. No difficulties getting it up and running. Great job. Thx alot.

Hello, the adrotator is working fine but the ad address link would also show on a widget that is underneath it, for example if a have a text widget underneath the ad rotator the text would show underline and if you click on it will take you to the ad website that is showing on top.

Please let me know how can I fix this.

Thank you.

Hello –

I have installed the adrotater plugin in the plugin directory along with the other plugins, but it doesn’t show up in my Wordpress plugin admin panel like the other ones. Any thoughts? I’m using 2.3.1.

Thanks, David

Never mind; I just had to log out and log back in; now it’s there. (I had previously also updated the widget.php module, as mentioned above in #15.)

– David

Actually, now if I have the plugin activated, I lose access to my widgets admin screen until I turn the plugin off. Again, any thoughts would be appreciated.

– David

If I have my own directory of jpg images that I want to rotate through, what “text” / “code” could I use to randomly go through the ads?

Is there any way to not use widgets with this and do inline ads?

I unwittingly put some javacode in my ad rotator box. Unfortunately, it crashed and i cannot simply go back in and change what is in the box. I even deleted and re-installed adrotator and it still doesn’t work. I just don’t understand and now my whole blog is damaged. any thoughts?

Chris, you may wish to use your phpmyadmin and see whether the crashing code is still in your database. If it is, flush it. You should then be able to reinstall the widget without it repeating the process. Look for whatever entry has “Ad-Rotator” (or similar) and browse it to find the offending entry.

I don’t want to use this plugin as a sidebar widget, I want to call it from elswhere on the site. Is there a way to make it work independently so I can stick it in a post?

I have adsense in my blog. Now I want to install ad rotator for amazon. I am afraid there will be some problems. Is is OK ? Please advice.
Thank you.
Bambang Udoyono

Has this plugin been updated lately – ie to work in later/latest WP versions?

I am using wordpress 2.33 WITH K2
I am not a programmer.
I’ve enabled Ad Rotator 1.0.1

What is the code that I would use to get the plugin to appear in the K2 Sidebar Manager.

I would love it if this was a “module” for K2.

У меня ничего не получается :( Хотя делаю по инструкции, но виджет в СайдБар Виджетс не появляется :( Менять тему? Обновлять ВП (у меня 2.1.3)?

Хм, разобрались :)
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Erm… The UNION FLAG should be used for English (top right corner of your website) NOT the American flag, they didn’t invent the language and STILL can’t speak it properly.

Please amend this as it is offensive to REAL English people.

Please excuse my naivete, but I have installed the widget but I have a question.

I understand that I am supposed to take the “html code” and add it to the widget. My question is where do I get the code from? Do I need to sign up somewhere? When I unzipped the file, there was only a widget.php file. Is there something I missed? I’m using Wordpress 2.5.1.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for the help!

Tami

Just wondering why the code would pull a random Google ad from elsewhere in the page, even though the code is not listed in the ad rotator widget.

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Hi!

Sorry the link doesn’t exist, well i can’t download, i trying but i can’t, somebody can see, what happened please.

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The download page has “page Not Found”! Any chance of fixing this?

Maxx

i was add something to my adrotator then this is what i’ve got. can somebody please help how should i fix this?

What a fantastic widget! I have been looking high and low for a widget that you could put custom HTML instead of just text, and this is it! You could advertise this as a custom HTML widget as well, cause I know I can’t be the only one looking for it.

hi there can any one tell me how to Random Ad Rotator to evenly Ad Rotator. please i need it in my webpress
thanks
Jams

I have wordpress 2.7 and there is no “configure” button showing. Can anyone please tell me how to run multiple instances?

Hi. is there soemthing wrong witht he plugin?

After installing it wont let me activate it. is the version still compatible. im using wordpress 2.7.

I made this web site. It’s all about celebrity news and gossip…So I’d appreciate your opinion on web site, this ad widget sounds cool.

I’m getting the same “Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array” problem as Mimi above. It happens when I try to go to my “Widgets” page in wp-admin. It used to work fine, now it doesn’t. I tried erasing the data in Mysql but it didn’t work. Suggestions please? It was such a useful plugin.

I did a fresh install of wordpress 2.8 and when I go to add more ad-rotator widgets it won’t add anymore than just one. Any ideas on a quick fix?

Thanks

Right now I have 3 ad rotator widgets that are all working fairly well however, I want more. I have tried to request more using the “how many do you want” option but no matter how many I choose none appear. What am I doing wrong?

This widget doesn’t work in multi-mode in wp2.8 anymore, as they have changed the way widgets are created and coded from 2.8 and on:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/WordPress_Widgets_Api

Might want to update it and maybe, just maybe submit it to the Wordpress Plugin database so we can find the updated version on there too… it would be a waste if you didn’t and left the widget here to die.

Prior to upgrading to Wordpress 2.8, Ad Rotator had the option to select multiple instances of the plugin. Now the selection for multiple instances is still there but no additional Ad Rotators appear after choosing a number of extra copies. Is this something that can be tweaked in the plugin to make it compatible or is this a bug to be pursued at Wordpress.org?

Hello?? Is this plugin going to be upgraded to work in multi-mode?

Great plugin, thank you very much for this!

Um.. I ran into that WP upgrade error because I am using the real AdRotator. You should change the name so your widget doesn’t do that.

Cole, I’m not sure that this is the best solution. This widget is more than 3 years old, so it has his own users, and I am not ready to stop providing them a good solution for this day-to-day problem.

Hi Dmytro,

Thanks for updating the plugin. This is a great plugin that I would be lost without!

Kudos to you!

I’m having an issue since the upgrade — backslashes are now appearing before all of my double-quotes and apostrophes.

Look in my sidebar under “Rave Reviews” to see what I mean.

2Ike: Fixed in 2.0.3

Where is 2.0.3? I just downloaded the plugin and it appears to still be 2.0.2 and still the same issue with backslashes.

Steve, I’ve updated links, so 2.0.3 could be downloaded now.

Thanks Dmytro! Greatly appreciated. Where is your PayPal donation link?

Hi,

Is there any way to stop the plugin from trying to escape quotes when you add some html? I am trying to add a banner image withing a link and it doesn’t show up because the plugin automatically escapes the quotes.

Regards,

How do I have the rotating ads show up in my Theme? I did not understand the directions. I created a TXT file with the HTML for images and links, and uploaded it to the wp-content folder. Is this method still used with this new version?

I just updated and I’ve had a few issues. First, the update essentially deleted all my existing rotators. Luckily I was planning on changing the ads anyway. Now, as I’m starting over, the rotators are showing multiple ads stacked on each other with (!–more–) between them.

Hi Dmytro, I must be pretty thick!!…I have finally been able to get the first image to appear, but the images won’t rotate. Can you please take a look at the code below and tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks, Steve

<!–more–)

I have changed my code since last post as the images were all running in-line down the column…current code looks like this, but still no rotating…Regards, Steve

<!–more–)

Can I enter another web site widget code into the rotator? I’d like to enter widgets like weather and stuff and have them rotate. Thanks.

I’m getting this error when I try to activate the plugin:

Fatal error: Class ‘WP_Widget’ not found in /zine/wp-content/plugins/ad-rotator/adrotator.php on line 28

How might I go about fixing it?

Looks like you are using outdated WordPress version. You should update it to at least 2.8.0 to use this plugin. And I think you should do the upgrade, because there are many known security holes in old version, and your blog could be hacked by someone.

Thank you for your prompt response!

I’m using this plugin in all of my websites.. The beauty is this will decrease down the ad blindness and users tends to click more on ads..More over other benifit is I can keep track of CTR and check which ad is performing well and remove the non performer..
My Kudos to this pligin

I installed this plugin this morning because I was being prompted to upgrade from the old Ad Rotator plugin at http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-plugin-adrotator-rotate-your-ads-including-adsense-dynamically/
This plugin appears to do exactly what that one had done. The only difference between the two is that this one works in a widget whereas the old one worked with a template tag. I had gotten around the template tag issue when widgets were introduced by writing my own widget for the old plugin so I essentially had the same functionality on my website before I installed this one. And I have not had to update it for different Wordpress versions (while this one seems to need updating occasionally). I’ll use this one for a while to see if there’s any real benefit to it but will probably switch back after a while.

And FYI – if you’re running the old version and want to keep it without getting prompted to upgrade to this one simply change the filename of the old one.

Having two plugins with the same name is bad enough, but making one rewriting over the other is very ugly thing in life. Having to redownload and reinstall the old one just because you thing widgets are nice is not appreciated.

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