Announcing AdSense-Deluxe Plugin for WordPress Blogs

[wkw]

Expanding on an idea and work done by Phil Hord (www.philhord.com) several months ago, I wrote a WordPress filter plugin for embedding Google AdSense ads into blog posts. I've finally gotten around to packaging it up so that others might benefit from its ease of use and flexible options for managing AdSense code within your blogs.

Phil's plugin allowed you to embed the HTML comment, <--adsense--> into your posts and before the post was displayed it would substitute the Google AdSense code in place of the comment. You simply edited a variable in the plugin's PHP file to paste your chosen AdSense code in place of his.

The AdSense-Deluxe plugin builds upon this paradigm by giving you a control panel where you can define unlimited "named" AdSense ad styles. To embed any of your various ad code within a post, just type in <!--adsense#SOMENAME-->. But based on my usage of the plugin, I find that I want to use a single style of ads in most blog posts, though I may change what that style is over time. So you can also just use <!--adsense--> in most places, and whichever ad block you've selected as the "default" style will be used for that placeholder. Designating a different "default" style changes the ads everywhere that you've used the default placeholder. You can embed up to three ad blocks per post/page, and use different combinations of default and named ad blocks anywhere.

AdSense-Deluxe features:

* Define unlimited AdSense ad styles for use in your WordPress blog posts.
* Use multiple, different AdSense blocks within a single post.
* Enable/disable individual ad blocks with two clicks.
* Enable/disable where ads are shown (home page, post pages, archives, search pages, etc.)
* Change ad styles globally from the control panel.
* Includes an AdSense Preview tool within the AdSense-Deluxe control panel for quickly viewing the ads Google would place on a given web page.
* WordPress 1.5+ compatible (requires 1.5 or later)
* Simple installation, no understanding of plugin code or PHP required.
* [naturally, ...] it's free!

More information and download available at http://www.acmetech.com/blog/adsense-deluxe/



cheers,
-wayne

[honey]

great plugin, that adds more value to wordpress. I will have this live on my lil blog www.f0ur.com !! Thanks.

[wkw]

Thanks Honey. I'ts been great for me thus far. I intended to release it to the masses circa 6 weeks ago, but I can never just call something "release 1.0" and take a rest. So I kept trying to add the other features I think I want in it, and eventually got distracted by other work and it languished all alone in the shadows of my blogs.

I'm glad for the closure and it's much better to see what the rest of the world thinks of it since I can't think of every cool feature myself...

(and I certainly appreciate you mentioning it in your blog.)

[Dreamshop]

Great contribution...I'm going to test this out tomorrow!

[largeheartedboy]

Wow, thanks! This adds much needed functionality to Wordpress.

[Up2U - YourWorld]

Brilliant Idea, will get that in use by tomorrow afternoon on my blog.

Hey, have you listed that on WP or Google APIs?

[wkw]

Originally Posted by Up2U - YourWorld

Brilliant Idea, will get that in use by tomorrow afternoon on my blog.

Hey, have you listed that on WP or Google APIs?

I've announced in some of the obvious places for wordpress plugins, and any private blogs which ever mentioned wordpress and adsense. but if you have suggestions, I'll take them.

Thanks to a user's suggestion today, I realized I forgot to add a button in the post QuickTags toolbar, and am close to having that in place now.

Really interested in feedback since it's been crafted for what I wanted in the plugin, but not sure what other people are looking for.

-wayne

[swaz]

yup,the quicktags are missing.Is it possible to have custom block quicktags too? instead of just <!--adsense-->.

[wkw]

working on the quicktags thingie. got the button in place, but it's not functioning yet.What I'd like to implement is some sort of drop down menu from the button so you can select from all your available AdSense blocks. anyone knows how to make that happy in the WP QT context, please send pointers.
-w

[HomeOfficeVoice]

Great plugin, Wayne ... congratulations on all the hard work.

Anything that makes AdSense work better with WP will be a big hit.

[wkw]

Well, 515 downloads since release last thursday and I've gotten good feedback. I've incorporated the fixes and changes into release 0.3. You can Download AdSense-Deluxe from that link.

Quick rundown on changes for v0.3:
- Fixed problem of AdSense showing up in Full Text RSS feeds.
- Fixed call-time pass-by-reference warnings from PHP.
- No longer “rewarding author” on anything other than Post or Page pages.
- Fixed problem with only two (2) ads being shown on a given page.
- Added AdSense-Deluxe quicktag menu to post editor.
- Stopped showing live adsense in post editing previews; now displays a placeholder
- Added stripslashes() around calls to edit an ad and to display adsense code in posts.
[axodys] reported his ads getting escaped on WP 1.5.3 (with magic_quotes_gpc Off).
- Editing an ad which was disabled causes it to be enabled when saving (fixed).

[swaz]

oo thats fast.how do i upgrade? just upload the new plugin? and will my previous ads disappear?

[wkw]

Just replace the plugin .php file. All your data is stored in WP's database so you won't lose anything when upgrading.
-w

[blacknight]

Very nice plugin. Thanks for all the hard work.

[wkw]

Blacknight, hope you got the v0.4 release from today. A couple more little tweaks in it, and now I'm hoping to back off an get to paying work before tackling the big stuff on my wish list for the plugin.
thanks though,

-wayne

[blacknight]

Wayne

Seems like I am completely up to date

Michele

[wkw]

I've just posted version 0.5 of the AdSense-Deluxe WordPress plugin.

That link explains the new features (support for inserting ads in WordPress template files, and automatic version checking). The main Plugin page can be found at AdSense-Deluxe.

[Phynder]

Excellent! I've been using v.4 for a while - looks like it is time to upgrade...

[cdl512]

I prefer to put my ads in the code not individual posts, less mistakes that way, but if you have a long post and wan to break it up a bit this is a good way to go!

[blacknight]

You can put adsense directly into your template code using the plugin. It contains a number of hooks for you to use