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Ad Rotator

Ad Rotator is a simple widget to display random HTML code (advertisements) from a given group of HTML-chunks on sidebar.

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Tested up to WordPress 2.8
Current version2.0.3
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 2.8
Minimum stackWP 2.8.0 · PHP —
Directory statusactive
Last directory update30 Jul 200917y ago
Active installations100Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating5.0 / 5 from 1 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Ad Rotator version 2.0.3 as active, updated 17y ago and tested up to WordPress 2.8.

Overview

About this plugin

Ad Rotator is a simple WordPress widget to display random HTML code

--more-->

on sidebar. Basically it shows different HTML every time you requesting

page. There are infinite number of instances of this widget may exist.

Support

If you have any suggestions, found a bug, or just wanted to say “thank

info.

Promise, I will answer every email I received.

If you want to contribute your code, see the Development section under

the Other Notes tab.

Migrating from AdRotator plugin

AdRotator

plugin is a simple file-based ad rotation solution. It was developed by

Angsuman Chakraborty long time ago, but occasionally we have the same

plugin names from WordPress’ point of view. If you are using this plugin,

you may click upgrade link from your Plugins page and it being replaced

with Ad Rotator widget.

So now you have two ways to solve the problem 'getad()' function is undefined:

1. you can download AdRotator and ignore upgrade notices, or

2. you can upgrade your theme to use Ad Rotator Widget.

Here is how to upgrade your theme. Find all occurrences of getad function,

and replace them with something like this:

register_sidebar(array( 'name' => 'ad-area', 'id' => 'ad-area', 'before_widget' => '', 'after_widget' => '', 'before_title' => '', 'after_title' => '' ));

Make sure you’ve replaced ad-area with the name suitable for you. Also

you can specify additional options, like before_title and after_title.

Then open the Appearence/Widgets page in Site Admin and configure

Ad Rotator widget instances for your advertisements area. Just take into

account, that in files for AdRotator ads are separated with new line

character (ie each line means separate ad), but in Ad Rotator widget

--more--> (so each of them

)

Anyways, sorry for сonfusion, I did not want to сheat on you.

Development

Sources of this plugin are available both in SVN and Git:

  • WordPress SVN repository
  • GitHub

Feel free to check them out, make your changes and send me patches.

Promise, I will apply every patch (of course, if they add a value to the

product). Email for patches, suggestions, or bug reports:

info.

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • ad
  • ads
  • advertisements
  • rotate
  • widget
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 2.8

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 2.8.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to2.8
Minimum requirementsWordPress 2.8.0 · PHP not listed
Update activity30 Jul 200917y ago

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