WordPress Banner Rotator plugin

Description

With the WordPress Banner Rotator plugin, you can quickly and easily display banner ads on your WordPress website in several different ways with the level of flexibility you need in order to optimize your publishing results.

System Recommendations

• Linux and Apache Server (recommended)
• WordPress 3.0 or higher
• PHP 4.2 or higher
  • safe_mode Off
• MySQL 4 or higher

 

Installation

1. Ensure that you have WordPress installed.
2. Download the WordPress Banners plugin from the downloads management section in a ZIP archive (you may need to log in to your Tribulant Software account in order to access your download).
3. Either upload it to your WordPress > Plugins > Add New section for a quick installation and skip to step 5 or extract the ZIP archive named wp-banners.zip in order to be presented with a single folder named wp-banners.
4. Upload the wp-banners folder to the wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation. If you are upgrading, overwrite all existing plugin files from an older version.
5. Access the “Plugins” panel in your WordPress Dashboard once logged in as administrator.
6. Activate the “Banners” plugin if it isn’t already active.
7. Access the “Banners” administration menu item and the submenus to manage the plugin. This can be found on the left hand side of your WordPress Dashboard.

 

Quick Start Guide

Activation

• Go to ‘Plugins’ in your WordPress dashboard.
• Go to ‘Banner Rotator’ and click the ‘Activate’ link.
• You will now see a red bar across the top of your admin screen. Generate a serial key from here: https://tribulant.com/downloads/ by clicking the key icon next to the plugin name (you may have to log in to view that page).

*Please note: There are very descriptive instructions when generating the key, they basically say that from your WordPress admin page, the URL shown in the address bar of your browser, you need to select everything after the “http://” and before the next “/” slash

Example: https://www.example-domain-name.com/subfolder1/subfolder2 for this URL you would only select the www.example-domain-name.com

Any mistakes may be final and you may have to submit a ticket to get your key re-issued. Once you have your key, you need to copy and paste it to the serial key field and submit it. If your serial key was generated for the wrong domain, this is where you will get an “Invalid Serial Key” message. But, if it is correct, then you can proceed and begin using the plugin.

Settings

• The Menu Item Banners will appear in your menu. Go to Banners > Settings.
• Read carefully through the Settings and select the options that best suit your needs.
• Click on the blue Save Settings button when you are done.

Sizes

• You only need to follow this Sizes section if you want to add different ad sizes according to your needs. If you do want specific ad sizes, we suggest setting this up before the below.
• Go to Banners > Click on Sizes.
• Click on ‘Add New’ at the top of the page.
• Here you can add a new size to your specifications. It will appear when editing Adverts.
• Once you have configured your own sized banner, click ‘Save Size’.

Geotargeting (Locations)

• You only need to follow this Geotargeting section if you want to add locations to target them and only display ads to them. If you do want to target specific locations, we suggest setting this up before the below.
• Go to Banners > Click on Geotargeting.
• On the Manage Locations page, click on ‘Add New’ at the top of the page.
• Once you have configured a location, click ‘Save Location’.

Create Adverts

• Go to Banners > Click on Adverts.
• Click on ‘Add New’ at the top of the page. Here you will be able to upload your banner image.
• Insert an Ad Title.
• Select your banner settings according to the specifications of your ad type and web page.
• Click on ‘Save Banner Ad’.

Zones

• Go to Banners > Click on Zones.
• Click ‘Add New’ at the top of the page.
• Insert a Title. E.g., Sidebar 2 > Go to drop down bar > Select ‘Activate’.
• Configure the rest of the settings.
• Click on ‘Save Zone’.

Putting Banners on your Website

There are 3 ways of embedding banners:

• Sidebar Widgets.
• Shortcodes into posts/pages.
• Hardcoding into WordPress theme.

 

Usage & Integration

Once Banner Rotator is set up, it is quite easy to use and maintain.

 

Release Notes