Banners: Settings & Configuration

WordPress Banners plugin settings.

 

Other Actions

On the Banners > Settings page, at the top right side of the page, you will see a “Save Settings” box with various helpful links and buttons.

You’ll also find a “Quick Links” box that, when a section is selected, scrolls you to that section on the Settings page.

1. Support

Clicking the “Support” button takes you to the internal Banners Support & Help page that has a few support links, allowing you to quickly access them.

2. Updates

Clicking the “Updates” button takes you to the Check for Updates page, where you can check if an update is available. If there is one, you’ll see new buttons, such as automatically installing that update or downloading the file to manually install it. It can also serve as a backup.

3. Check/Optimize Database

Clicking the “Check/Optimize Database” link will check your database and optimize it. Tables can crash quite easily, especially when your server unexpectedly shuts down or crashes, or when you’re forced to copy data around while it’s still being accessed. You can then just click this link and your database will optimize and repair itself automatically.

4. Reset Stats

Clicking the “Reset Stats” link will reset all views and clicks on banner ads and also clear the stats database completely.

5. Delete Exported Stat Files

Clicking the “Delete Exported Stat Files” link will delete all stat files that were exported when you clicked the Export Stats button in Adverts, whether on the column or when editing an advert. Here’s how this work: After you export the stats, a CSV file is created in wp-content under wp-banners/export/. To delete those files, you can do so either by clicking this link or by navigating to that folder via FTP and deleting the .csv files.

6. Reset Settings

Clicking the “Reset Settings” link will reset all configuration settings to their defaults as if the plugin was just installed and activated. All other data will remain intact, just settings are reset.

7. Turn on debugging

Tick or check the “Turn on debugging” checkbox and then click “Save Settings” to turn on debugging to reveal any possible WordPress database errors and/or PHP warnings/notices/errors. It essentially turns on WordPress show_errors on WPDB and PHP error_reporting. You can report any relevant plugin errors to us.

8. View the log file

Click on the “View the log file” to see all the errors (if any) in the log file. An example:

9. Clear the log file

Click on the red x to clear the entire error log.