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AdSense Manager is now being developed as Advertising Manager by Scott Switzer as I no longer have time to develop/support it full time.

There are currently no known bugs with WP2.7 so please feel free to have a go. Thanks.

Hi I think there have been problems with the latest version of WordPress – it appears to be breaking a lot of ads. I haven’t had time to work on this plugin for quite a while, so development has been handed over to Scott Switzer (of OpenX) and a new plugin Advertising Manager is now available.

I recommend you upgrade – it is known to work with all versions of WP>2.5 and should resolve any problems you are having.

Thanks

Hi Mike,

Feed ads aren’t supported with AdSense Manager at the present time. Just so you know, development has also moved to the Advertising Manager plugin so I’d recommend an upgrade to that if possible.

I’ll look into supporting feed ads in the near future.

Hi

I was the developer of AdSense Manager but unfortunately (except for me) I am now doing a full time degree. Lead development of the plugin has been taken over by Scott Switzer of OpenX under the new name Advertising Manager.

If you’re using later than WP2.5 I recommend you upgrade to the new plugin where its very likely these issues have been resolved.

All the best.

Afraid not. You can add the tag into the post [ad#name] but there is currently now way to do this automatically.

Development of the ad plugin has now moved to Advertising Manager. Hopefully we’ll be able to add automatic ad placements in the near future.

lacch1: You may want to upgrade to the new Advertising Manager where this bug should be fixed.

P.S. Apologies for the delay, it’s exam time.

<b>graphire:</b> Those ads are for the Be Nice where you donate ad space to support development of the plugin (see the install instructions/FAQ). They’re gone if you download the latest version of AdSense Manager.

However, AdSense Manager has been re-developed into Advertising Manager which is now available for download, and highly recommended if you are using WP2.5 or older.

Thanks

actualize81: It may just be that Google can’t find enough content to serve relevant ads (or that it can’t find ads relevant to the content). How long have you had an ad block on your homepage? It can take a few days before anything appears.

And upon upgrade of the plugin version, will it overwrite and revert back the same 3% Be Nice value?

Nope. Missed that bit sorry.

Thanks for the note, I’ll have a look into this and see if I can fix what is going wrong. Is there an error with all ad types or just specific ones?

myrko: Hi can you email me a copy of your adroll code and I’ll see if I can figure out what is going wrong. Thanks.

blognewb: This might sound a little patronising but you’re coming to this awfully late. I don’t disagree with Clayton’s point but the post pointed to was not about what s/he & you think it was. When Google originally blocked my account there was no indication what part of the T&Cs was actually being broken or even whether it was the plugin doing it. Following that I received a note from Google clarifying the part of the T&Cs being broken and I modified the plugin to fix the problem and resumed distribution.

In hindsight this bit “Web site, or other means other than Your Site(s)” clearly distinguishes between sites you own and sites you don’t. To be honest I didn’t notice that at the time. Elsewhere in the T&Cs ‘your sites’ is used rather generically to refer to any site showing your ads. It’s probably worth making the point that rotating ads onto sites you don’t own but contribute to is acceptable to Google (think Author AdSense) even though this would also be in violation of a strict reading of the T&Cs.

But again: this happened over a year ago. I was quite happy with the resolution with Google at the time and respect their right to allow/disallow whatever they want on their network. I was simply a ‘bit annoyed’ at the lack of clarification.

Your point about pay-per-download is wishful thinking, same as those that believe you can get by on donations. It just doesn’t happen, sorry. The success of AM is dependent on it being in WordPress Extend which does not allow payment per download. Without W/E you lose audience, bandwidth and auto-updates. When I originally hosted this plugin on my own server I lost money from bandwidth costs alone (the original trigger for the Be Nice).

As mentioned the BN will be off shortly. I’m in discussions with a (ad) company to take over development of the plugin from here on. Once the first updates come through this will all be academic.

cuongkame: Can you email me a copy of the ad you were trying to import to and I’ll try and see what is going wrong.

Thanks.

ClaytonJames: I’m sorry but I’m not entirely sure what you’re saying here. The quoted post was related to Google’s problem with the original implementation of the Be Nice donations which rotated my google ID into sites using the plugin. This was a problem for Google because it broke site targetting on their end especially with regard to referrals. After discussing it with them this was removed.

When I removed the donations from the plugin a considerable number of people complained to Google about it being unfair that I couldn’t get support for the work I was doing on it. That may not make sense to your ‘ethics’ but it did to theirs. Following 3 releases with the Be Nice donations disabled, they were re-started using an alternate ad system which Google also confirmed was perfectly fine with them.

The system is completely voluntary, provides a big box to disable it, and includes instructions in the installation telling you how to do just that. When activated it donates 3% of ad space (not 15% as HiDomo claims) to me from which I currently make a grand total of $25/mo (combined income from all users).

If all of this is too difficult to understand you are of course also perfectly free to not use the plugin at all. I won’t lose any sleep over it I assure you.