Ad Rotator

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.

[…] Ad-rotator au départ prévu pour la rotation d’un système d’annonce, il me permet d’ajouter 9 widget texte dans la sidebar. […]

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

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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

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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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I realize this is an old plugin and the last comment here was in November of 2009. But I’m hoping the author is still monitoring comments. I just installed the plugin and have it working well. I’ve put three Ad Rotator widgets in my sidebar, since I want three ads stacked vertically. I populated each widget with the same content (10 images wrapped with the appropriate html and separated by ). My goal is to have each ad appear in any one of the three positions randomly so that over time, each one gets equal exposure in each of the positions. The only problem is that on some page reloads, the same ad appears in two widgets. I know this is just because of the nature of randomization and the relatively small number of ads I have. But is there a way to link each instance of the widget and have each one omit an ad (and pick another) if another widget has already randomly selected it? Even running 10 ads in three spots, I can get the same ad in two spots fairly frequently. That’s what I’m trying to eliminate. Any ideas? Thanks!

I found the problem. The client added a redirect to his website and each Ad Rotator link used an absolute URL. Changed to relative URL’s and now it works again.

Hello, I came across this page looking for exactly what this plugin seems to do – and that is rotate adverts in a sidebar widget.
But, can you please let me know if this plugin is up to date for 2011?
Or does anyone know of a similar plugin, please?

I’m noticing that this plugin/widget does not show up on a lot of browsers – Firefox, Chrome, etc. It’s not that the code doesn’t work, it seems to be getting blocked by some anti-adware. Is there anyway to “sanitize” the code so that doesn’t happen?