wp-simple-ads

Wordpress plugin to manage and display custom ads manually

Requirements

• Wordpress 3.0+
• PHP 5.3+

Installation

1. Activate plugin
2. Add Ad Formats

• Leaderboard
• Skyscraper
• See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_banner#Standard_sizes

3. Add Ad Locations and select a Format for each Location

• Header
• Footer

Usage

Adding Ads

1. Go to Ads » Add New
2. Select a Format

• Selecting a Format will apply this term and overwrite any other « Format » term because only one Format is possible at any time
• TODO: Format detection on upload

3. Upload the banner

• TODO: Support Flash

4. Optionnally add a link

Displaying Ads

TODO: Add weights in the random

Use SimpleAds\Ad::query_random($location) or SimpleAds\Ad::query($location) for all possible banners

Example:

<?php
  $banner = SimpleAds\Ad::query_random('header');
  if ($banner) $banner->render();
?>

Which outputs:

<a href="/banner-target.html" title="Awesome banner">
  <img width="728" height="90" src="http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/banner.png" class="attachment-ad-leaderboard" alt="Awesome banner">
</a>