Author Advertising Plugin
This plugin allows blog admins to create a revenue sharing program utilising one of the many advertising programs out there i.e Yahoo, Google Adsense, Amazon, Allposters etc. It can also be used as a banner manager, author photo/website widgets.. actually it has about a zillion uses. Give it a try and lemme know if you use it for anything really groovy.
For full installation/upgrade/usage instructions please read the Author Advertising Plugin Manual (PDF format). I’ve tried to write it in human language and have included examples for getting the plugin running using common affiliate programs.
Get it from the Plugin Directory
Usage
There are three ways to display ads on your site automatically, by modifying your theme or by inserting code into your posts.
Automatic Placement: The plugin gives you the option to use automatic placement. Simply check the checkboxes in the Dashboard > Settings > Author Advertising Config section.
If you have Ad Place 1 and 2 active then the Recent Posts widget will display ads before and after the list, I can’t help that but if you want to use Recent Posts then simply un-check Ad Place 1 % 2 and use the below template tags in your template.
Template Tags: Use the function <?php kd_template_ad($type); ?> in your template to specify where an ad will go. The $type variable is just a number from 1-4 corresponding to the ad boxes. So if you have an ad in Ad Place 3 and you’ve un-checked Active? then you simply put <?php kd_template_ad(3); ?> into your template to display the ad.
Tagging: Another way to display ads is by using the tags %authorad1%, %authorad2%, %authorad3% and %authorad4% in the post.
Tutorials Elsewhere
Check out this nifty tutorial for using Author Advertising.
I’ve been using this plugin in my blog, but since I upgraded WordPress up to 2.8 version, it’s broken. Another popular plugins, like Akismet, has broken too. I don’t know if it’s a plugin or core system problem.
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Dodgy GeezerGreat plugin. Thanks a lot.
Dodgy GeezerYes I am having a slight problem once I installed the Author Advertising add-on for Wordpress. It only does this in my home directory of my blog, but when trying to run speedyads… it seems that if I am running a ad in place 1 (top) or place 2 (bottom) that I get a duplicate ad popping up to the right side in the widgets. Ain’t tried the other placements for ads, but if I click on a post… this problem doesn’t happen.
When installing the plug-in, and activating it. It told me there was additional code that needed to be ran in MySQL. I ran the code… checked the plug-in again… and setup my first ad to find out that this problem was happening.
Dodgy GeezerHi. This plugin is so good! but I want to choose another place for my google ads, below the post title. Please, how can I do it?
Dodgy Geezerthxs
Hi,
The authors on my blog have entered their details. I’m using the new adsense code and as a result and the author ads are not displayed at all.
What is the solution to this?
Dodgy GeezerThanks for the great plugin. Its is working good with wp 2.7 .
Dodgy GeezerNow i can share my site revenue with my authors of the blog.