Small update ironing out some quirks with stats and a silly typo for images in ads.
Updates should be pushed to your sites shortly via the WordPress updater.
And another great addition to the showcase page!
A great resource with all kinds of information about diners, places to sleep and attractions all over Southern Arizona.
Southern Arizona Guide uses AdRotate Pro in the sidebar, various pages and throughout posts to advertise the local businesses and attractions.
Just out, including some bugfixes and stuff.
With the help of Beee an issue got fixed with image paths for set ups in subfolders. Steveh (Sorry, no link), kindly supplied a patch to improve Caching support. This should now actually work as intended. Let me know how that goes. Mauro L. from 7Host pointed out a small issue with the user roles.
11 new phrases and 4 obsolete. So update your translations.
The update is available now and will be pushed out to websites in the coming days.
The free version will for the most part be released independently from AdRotate Pro. Development of AdRotate Pro takes more time and effort than keeping the Free version up-to-date. But Also to keep things simpler. No confusing changelogs and feature announcements.
This month marks the first year that I am officially in business for myself. To celebrate all installations and integrations of AdRotate into your website are 25% off using the following promotion.
Coupon code: firstyear
Valid: April 3 through April 30, 2013
For what: Getting started with AdRotate – Installations and Integration
This includes all products on the “installations” page.
It’s been a weird year, but exciting, too. Hundreds of people have benefited from my services in the past year. Most of them were happy and satisfied with what I did for them too. Which is awesome. And it’s been more fun than I’d hoped for. Finding new people to talk to. Making acquaintances and contacts. Sharpening my skills and insights as I go along. It’s been an incredible year for learning new things. Learning how to run a business, spotting the opportunities and how to use them. And this is only the beginning I hope 
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While working on my OmniCard plugin and KeyGenerator plugin for WooCommerce I suddenly had an idea for AdRotate. Those 2 plugins are designed from the ground up to be easy to use and super simple to understand with *everything* they do. Literally everything;
AdRotate Blocks is not like that anymore. It has bolted on fields and options. People often misunderstand the actual idea of blocks and use it in the wrong way. This means that I did something wrong with Blocks. I’m not entirely sure what. But if the feature no longer makes sense to people or to me, something is wrong.
Therefor I came to the very unsophisticated conclusion that blocks as a feature no longer has a place in the vision of AdRotate. It has to go. Be removed and destroyed! Restore the simplicity. I firmly believe it is a waste of time to further develop and fix the blocks as they are now.
Nope! While the Block as a feature has no place in the idea of AdRotate the idea of blocks must remain. This is a very important change for the future of AdRotate. Ultimately it will make things better and simpler for everyone.
With the introduction of blocks they worked sort of like a group but with multiple ads. Their special purpose would be to generate a grid and show ads in a special way. Awesome! Perfect for the then new and hip 125*125 ads. Now, 3 years or so later, the functionality of blocks eludes me.
The idea was a layered approach, Ads go into groups, groups go into blocks and they would all work together and everyone would be happy. It doesn’t quite work as I want it to and I generally dislike how blocks turned out overall.
Yep! Groups have a future. And all they need is some love and a grid option. Yes, a grid. So you can still make blocks. Except it’s a group. Less layers, less clutter. Which means less confusion and greater ease of use. Oh imagine the joy …
So the very top of my Todo list now looks like this;
I want to make blocks obsolete before years end. Changes can be expected soon.
A number of new options related to stats. Lots of bug fixes related to the Advertiser interface. Some changes and tweaks. And the big new thing – Broadstreet Ads. AdRotates first integration with an external service. And what a service. Allowing your advertisers to change ads via Twitter, Facebook or text message. Anywhere. Anytime. Without you having to do it for them. That’s neat!
Broadstreet currently does business with Publishers and Advertisers in the United States, Europe and some in Asia. Publishers create adverts through their services and allow Advertisers to easily manage and update those adverts.
Read all about Broadstreet Ads and what they can do for you on their website!
Starting today there a sort of sale going on for AdRotate Pro.
Get a discount of 20% on AdRotate Pro Single, Multi and Developer licenses.
Coupon code: ADROTATEPRO
Valid from: February 26th 2013 till March 5th 2013
Free Users: Find the update through your WordPress Dashboard.
Pro Users: Version 3.8.4 is available now in in your account on this website.
Upgrade instructions are available in the knowledge base.
Posted on my blog Meandmymac.net on May 24th, 2008. The very first post about AdRotate, right after I decided to make it a public plugin.
AdRotate v0.2
Oooh yes, so someone tricked me into making a simple ad rotation plugin for wordpress.
I churned up some code and presto! We have another plugin for WordPress.It sports a textfield, a simple management page and some simple options per ad, like if the ad should be activated or not. And with the simple inclusion of a function call in the template (or multiple, if you want more than one banner). You can easily show banners on your site.
More information:
http://meandmymac.net/plugins/adrotate/Downloads:
adrotate v0.2As with most plugins this also comes with basic support. I will ad a support page soon.
Bugfix release fixing a number of small issues reported over the past few days. Since then, I haven’t received other reports so for now this will be the last of it.
Pro users: You can find your download in your account.
Free users: Updates will be pushed out via WordPress over the next few days. And is available now in the repositories.
After a few hours of frantic code staring, pizza and way too much cola. Behold!
I have worked through all of your emails, comments and forum posts. I think I squashed all reported issues. Which came down to a version increment mismatch for most issues.
Turns out, despite endless testing, that it was not enough. The version increment on the database which I believed was version 20 and onwards turned out wrong.
- A lot of users somehow had AdRotate database version 22 (how?) Thus a few upgrades for the database were not ran. I have moved these changes to version 26 which will correct the missing pieces.
- Blocks had a tiny overhaul to now properly count the amount of adverts.
- Some random typos corrected which fixes; Errors about unserialized data, restores click tracking, makes disabled adverts show up properly.
Typos? Yea… I know *slaps self* 
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If your ads have many schedules. Those adverts may show up as expired. This is because the free version does not take schedules in account. So if there are schedules starting at a later date. In AdRotate Pro and previous versions the advert was “healthy” and would just function. With AdRotate not looking at that and not having a schedule for right now the ad will show up as expired.
The best remedy, and to maintain the schedules, is to upgrade to AdRotate Pro. If you do not want that you have to edit and save each advert. This will remove the unused schedules.
AdRotate Pro users can download version 3.8.1 from their account.
Free users can download AdRotate here.
Oh yes… I’ve upgraded AdRotate Pro version 3.8 on http://meandmymac.net to see how that went. Almost flawless Yay.
This experiment helps me figure out the proper procedure for upgrading and any cave-ats you might run into when upgrading yourself. AdRotate Pro is as good as finished now and final testing is well under way.
Here are some snazzy snaps of the new dashboards -
