Author Advertising Plugin FAQ
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Where is the configuration page?
Settings > Author Advertising Config. The brand spanking new user configuration page is under Users > Author Advertising
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How do I get started with this plugin?
Go into the config page (Settings > Author Advertising Config) enter your publisher/advertising ID for the program of your choice. Put the percentage of your own ad's that you'd like to show. Change the user level of people who are allowed to display their ads. Write the content you would like to appear to your ad showing authors. Custom fields are for those of you who want to extend your user's capabilities for instance you can use it with Adsense so they can put a slot id in there or collect other information if you want.
Set up your advertising code. There are four different ad spaces.
If you don't want the plugin to automatically put ads on your site then uncheck Active? next to the ads and you can either put the function
<?php kd_template_ad($type); ?>replacing the $type with a number from 1-4 into your template or by putting the tags %authorad1%, %authorad2%, %authorad3% or %authorad4% into your posts where you want the ad to display. The plugin also has a maximum of 3 widgets so if you check Active? next to the widgets ad and put the code you want in there, you can use the widgets in the normal way. -
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Say I want to use Google Adsense on my site, how do I do it?
You modify the Author Page and let your users know that you're using Adsense. You check one of the custom fields and give it the title of Adsense Slot ID or something similar. Then the author will put their publisher ID and slot ID information into their page. Remember to put your own defaults in the custom default slots so that your own ads show properly.
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Can I use this plugin for more than just advertising?
Yes you can put any HTML code into the boxes. PHP won't work though. You could use this plugin to insert a widget that displays the author's picture or some other author information. It'll still rotate with your information unless you set your admin percentage to 0% then it'll just be for authors. On the front page if you randomise ads then all of your author's information/picture etc would be rotated.
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How do I show my own ads on the homepage but only my author's ads on the posts that they write?
Uncheck randomise ads and put the admin percentage to 0%.
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Is there a limit to how many %authorad1% tags I put in a post?
Yes. It limits it to one ad. Most advertising programs have a limit on how many ads can be displayed on a page. One ad stops users from abusing the system and potentially getting you and themselves banned. Adsense for instance allows three ads per page. So if you have two in the templates etc it allows your authors to put one ad in-text.
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In the user config page there's a delete button. If I press it will my author be completely deleted?
Nope just the info about their advertising. If a user has put something funky in the fields you may want to delete their author information and get in contact and tell them to do it again and how to do it.. although if you've written a good enough author page they shouldn't be able to mess it up ;)
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How do you know that it really displays ads at the percentage you say?
Cos I've spent a long time playing with and using the script. Each time the script is called it figures out who the post belongs to or whether it's a homepage etc. Then it picks a number between 1-100 and calculates the odds. Then it'll spit out an ID. If there is no ID for a user it'll spit out the admin ID. The variable with the current publisher ID stays the same till the end of the page. It's a pretty smart script if I do say so myself ;P and in the beginning I had many headaches. Luckily I never have to change that bit of the code.
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I love this plugin. How can I make you a millionaire?
By donating of course! I'm a poor student and do this cos it's geeky fun, so any donations towards hosting costs would be much appreciated. Also I'm a geeky chick with big boobs so why wouldn't you want to help me? *pout*
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Can you make me a customised script with lots of referrer levels and different percentages?
Nahhh.. pyramid schemes are illegal in most of the civilised world and to be honest it'd make my head hurt trying to figure out who gets what. This plugin is supposed to be a nice script that lets admin's share advertising space.
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Is this script compatible with WordPress 2.5?
Yep cos it was made for it. It'll look hideous in older versions. Always upgrade ASAP (although it always takes me a few weeks to upgrade this site anyway :S)
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Can I use variables to display the rotated publisher ID in ads I hardcode into the theme? I wish to deeply integrate Adsense and am not happy with just the default ad locations.
The default ad locations can be disabled. Then all you'd do is put your ads into the boxes and use the kd_template_ad($type) function. You could also echo get_option('kd_current_id'); but then it will only display the publisher ID and not any custom fields.
