Hi,
In Theme Panels you can set an ad for ‘Article bottom ad’. Is it possible to have an ad there rotating? Like, that every other post has a different ad? Now all posts have the same bottom ad.
Thanks.
Hello,
Unfortunately the theme has no such option but you will most likely find a plugin that has such a functionality. We usually recommend adrotate for this as most users seem to have it working properly on their website.
Thank you!
Okay, thanks!
TO anyone considering the Adrotator plug in, beware as it has some issues:
To anyone considering this plugin; it works very well and we’ve been using it for years, although in a slightly hacked version. 50,000 installs and counting on the repo.
The trick is to use to rotate ads randomly on view which is default behavior and NOT try to set funky schedules to have ads rotate every xx minutes, which is wrong and will overload system and violate most ad networks.
if you READ THE FRIENDLY MANUAL for the plugin; it’s designed to ROTATE ads; meaning each time a page is loaded, a different ad is served. This violates no ad terms; so you can serve an AdSense ad one time, then house ad the next time, in same ad spot, very simply.
Put another way, knowing the terms of use for any ad service like AdSense is important if using that, whereas loading your own ads off your own site you can do whatever you want.
AdRotate does NOT work like an animated GIF ad server.
Traditionally it has been used to “randomly” load ads from a set ad group which you can define, and you can put any ad group into any widget or ad spot you wish.
Only you can be responsible for knowing the “rules” for any ad network to which you participate and act accordingly. An ad server plugin is only a tool, it’s not making choice for you.
And reading the instructions properly, helps too.
Share and enjoy 🙂
Thanks for the post Chris, when you say “hacked version”, could you elaborate? I’m considering purchasing the plug in
thanks
Sorry.
We ‘hacked’ the plugin a couple of years back (4 years?) when it was very simple and there was no pro version, as at the time it didn’t work well with https or couple of other things, so we “modified” the code. Since it still works with latest WP, and PHP, we’ve just left it as is. Might have to revisit when we start mucking with PHP7, but have not gotten to that YET.
Initially very simple plugin to create ad groups, a “weight” for each ad, and then rotate those ads, randomly in a widget. That was it. Still, we’ve been recommending it on these forums for 3 years now (has it been THAT long since TagDiv launched? Yikes!).
I think I used “hacked” in the wrong sense here. Should have said “modified.”
We license everything up the wazoo over here as a legal business/company in California, USA.
No “warez” here !
((I don’t work here; we just run “most” of our sites on TagDiv themes.))
And remember kids!
Never ever ever use ‘hacked’ (STOLEN) web applications or software.
Or, the boogey man will get you.
Lol, I knew you didn’t mean stolen Chris.
Do you find the plug in affects the performance of the websites at all? I’ve read some mixed reviews on this.
Well, we have dedicated server with dual Xeon E5-2640v3 processors and 32GB of RAM. So, I have enough horsepower to throw at anything pretty much (except that one version/batch/trunk of Visual Composer that killed the box last year! which led to Radu’s “shim” plugin workaround). So, not best person to ask beyond saying “we have never had a problem with it” — but then, I never had issue with wp-postviews either, sooo…. unless you’re trying to do something funky with a CDN, bad ad network with timeout issues, etc. I don’t see a problem.
Oh, I know what one of the ‘hax’ we did was, as I don’t think it originally did/supported ‘async’ mode for stuff; which was one thing we did.
Anyway — works for me, “your mileage may vary.”
(and for you geeky folk; specs on just ONE of the processors on our new server went live Aug 5, sadly as our old server had total RAID failure during migration; http://ark.intel.com/products/83359/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2640-v3-20M-Cache-2_60-GHz ).
And needless to say if you’re on a $5/month plan, or most GoDaddy offerings, you likely can’t run much of anything 😉
thx for this insight Chris
I was reading about your sever meltdown. That must have been the worst day of your business life!
Im giving this Adrotator a go but I’m not understanding how you integrate Adrotator code in the Newspaper theme? Seems like Adrotator gives a shortcode or php code while the Newspapeer theme panel uses standard html code and I presume we wouldn’t use the widget correct? Can you help?
thanks in advance
In our case, we just put the element into our post templates as we only use three of them. 🙂
So, no need to use TD sidebar widget, and we just put the code for the ‘ad group’ into the templates (we don’t pollute the stories by injecting ads into the story content).
Yeah, server meltdown super irritating as I’m the “make a backup” guy, and so I’ve been in “facepalm” mode all month. Stupid Softlayer/IBM! (Damn you to hell!). 🙂
Luckily you can try it without breaking anything…. it doesn’t add stuff to your posts or anything. And when turned off, it doesn’t do any evil like some plugins.
Welcome to the world of web eh? Stupid RAID 🙂 Sounds like you have recovered.
As far as Adrotator, it sounds like it couldn’t be used for the top banner ad then since this isn’t inside posts?
Well, the post TEMPLATE is where you put the AdRotate code not “inside of posts” …. 😉
Manual is easy to look at – they have dedicated FAQs website which kinda reminds me of the ACF docs but actually easier to read!
(( deal with server death was RAID5 turned out to be RAID0 … ruh roh! For both the server AND the back up system. One started to go bad, but wasn’t giving up error notices; the other one just started to go bad on Sunday, died completely Thurs. night … aka “the week of hell” … NOW we have RAID10 and full external RAID10 backup on top of that!!!! Damn you storage media demons!! OOps… I am using damn a lot lately … the damn police gonna get me …. shutting up now … seeeeeya! ))
