Tags: One of my pet projects over the last few weeks has been to build a simple advertising management platform for Wordpress. OpenX has dabbled in this arena before, and has built a plug-in which will easily integrate with OpenX Hosted or Downloaded versions.
However, most users of Wordpress do not need a full featured ad server for their blog. So, we decided to build an entirely separate plug-in which serves ads on its own. We have worked with Mutube, the writer of the very excellent Adsense Manager plug-in, to provide the base to our Wordpress plug-in. The plug-in has the following features:
- Automatic detection of over 10 3rd party ad networks and adservers, including Adsense, CJ, OpenX and others
- Simple UI which integrates completely in Wordpress
- Support for older versions of Wordpress, as well as the newest release, v2.7
- Ability to rotate multiple ads in ad zones
- Ability to optimise your ad networks by modifying the weight (% of time they show), and ability to allow ad networks to compete with the OpenX Market for the highest eCPM
- Easily place ads within blog posts, or in your WP templates
- Many more features which make this an incredibly useful tool for your blog!
Advertising Manager for Wordpress is currently being beta tested by a few trusted folks. We are looking for a few others who would be willing to test the plug-in, and give feedback. Hopefully, we can then release Advertising Manager for Wordpress Beta very shortly.
Please PM me or respond in the comments if you are willing to help!
Advertising Manager in Wordpress v2.6
A list screen in Advertising Manager using Wordpress 2.7
An edit screen of Advertising Manager in Wordpress 2.7
[...] blog post by Scott Switzer Tags: advertising, beta testing, OpenX, plugin, volunteers Category: Plugins [...]
Pingback by WordPress Watch » Blog Archive » Beta testers wanted for OpenX Advertising Manager plugin — February 2, 2009 @ 8:35 am
Being a Wordpress user myself, I’m glad you guys are looking into this area. I’ve seen some other advertising manager type things for blog systems, but having an official one will be great news.
Can’t wait to try it out!
Comment by fdask — February 2, 2009 @ 11:24 am
Hello Scott / Mutube,
I`m Ramoonus, i`m a direct webmaster for a handfull of dot NL`s at the moment. I`ve been using OpenAds for over 2 years now and WordPress for almost a year now.
I always try to use widely used WP themes and plugins and i keep my installations daily up to date.
I`m willing to betatest the plugin on a site or 2 atleast.
Comment by Ramoonus — February 2, 2009 @ 6:56 pm
Scott,
Please contact me on the given email address for my comments.
We’re just about to launch a new fashion blog and would like to test it out. We already have installed the plugin to use the OpenX ad server we have installed, but would like to test this full separate plugin, which would allow us to keep the sites standalone and self-revenue bringing.
It will be interesting to know if OpenX go further for other CMS and blog platforms such as Joomla etc…
- Jase.
Comment by Jase — February 2, 2009 @ 10:24 pm
I launched Birthday Bonus Club January 1 and I’ve been amazed at the popularity of the site it its first month. We have attracted over 7,000 members and served 1.5 million pageviews.
The next step is to introduce advertising which is the real “product” of the club - members receive ad credits in exchange for birthday donations. So - I have an audience and potential advertisers.
The website is WP 2.6 and I would be quite happy to assist in beta testing. I will also be running my own ad server using Open-X
Thanks
Tom
Comment by Tom Salter — February 3, 2009 @ 4:00 am
count me in as a beta tester. Aside from http://linuxbsdos.com, I have another site that I’m about to launch
Comment by finid — February 3, 2009 @ 4:33 am
I’m at the point where I’m actively looking for an ad manager for some of my wordpress sites, and OpenX comes highly recommended. Along those lines, I’d be interested in testing out a wordpress plugin.
Comment by Dustin — February 3, 2009 @ 6:09 am
Could i see demo version?
Comment by Seekzap Directory — February 3, 2009 @ 1:23 pm
Thanks for all of the interest! I will be in touch shortly with a private beta version.
Cheers,
Scott
Comment by Scott Switzer — February 3, 2009 @ 8:58 pm
This is one of the best announcements of the year!
However, I have a special need and I can’t say from the screenshots (although the 3rd one with Advanced options looks promising) if revenue sharing for multi-author blogs is taken care of? We serve over 300K impressions daily (Direct, AdSense and affiliate campaigns).
For every article written by one of our co-editors we display their Adsense PubID (in a 100/0 or 70/30 split, depending on the author) bases on WordPress’ post_author field linked to OpenX Source > Variable. Would this construction work with Advertising Manager (and OpenX on a dedicated subdomain)? I’ve used Martin’s precursor plugin way before and I know back then it offered multi-author/revenue sharing, but I can’t remember in which way.
Anyway .. if all my questions can be answered with a ‘Yes We Can’, then I’d really like to apply for a beta test
Comment by Jean-Paul Horn — February 5, 2009 @ 1:45 am
Hello,
I am a webmaster for a few of .com`s and a wordpress mu. I`ve been using OpenX for few months now and WordPress for 2.5 years now. My all installations are maintained up-to-date on regular basis.
I wish to betatest wordpress plugin on my site.
Comment by Deepanshu Goel — February 6, 2009 @ 1:22 pm
i can use a beta ad manager for a couple of my sites
thnx
Comment by Sehaj — February 6, 2009 @ 1:54 pm
Experienced WP user, theme and plugin developer.Please let me test this on a few of my WP 2.6.3 and WP 2.7 sites.
Thanks
Comment by Michael — February 6, 2009 @ 6:32 pm
I am willing to help beta test. I plan to set this blog up like another one of mine - http://www.brewbum.com
Comment by Chris — February 6, 2009 @ 10:13 pm
I sent out Advertising Manager private beta 2 to everyone who responded to me via email, blog comments, or PM. Please ping me if you want a copy. Public beta should be ready REAL SOON NOW!
Scott
Comment by Scott Switzer — February 6, 2009 @ 11:05 pm
I hope the plugin will allow for more than just page/category/home/etc ad selection to enable per keyword or page/post ID/custom field/etc so that specific ads can be targeted to specific content. Is this possible?
Comment by Rudy — February 7, 2009 @ 12:33 am
[...] le projet openX (anciennement openAds anciennement PHPAds-New) cherche des beta testeurs pour leur module [...]
Pingback by Les liens de la semaine | Oxeron Internet and Mobile Service Sarl — February 7, 2009 @ 6:43 am
If you still need testers I’d like to volunteer. If not, any idea on when the public beta will be?
Comment by April — February 8, 2009 @ 5:44 pm
I’d be really excited to help beta test this on my site.
Comment by liz — February 9, 2009 @ 8:59 pm
The Sales Corner would really like to try this out under the Beta Program. Let us know how to proceed!
Comment by The Sales Corner — February 10, 2009 @ 11:14 pm
I run several sites on Wordpress blogs, and have experience with the adsense manager. I’d be happy to give it a whirl.
If you don’t need beta testers, I’d love to know when a release is possible. This would be an excellent toy for me as I’m in the process of setting up several ad contracts.
Tom Chandler
Comment by The Trout Underground — February 13, 2009 @ 6:46 pm
I am interested if the beta version is released by openx.
Comment by Harris — February 16, 2009 @ 8:19 am
This looks amazing! I run a few websites on Wordpress When is the beta version coming out? Would love to test this out. The ability to rotate multiple ads in ad zones sounds amazing. Please keep us all updated! x Emma
Comment by Aunty — February 16, 2009 @ 10:01 pm
Hi
This plugin is just what I have been looking for. Was planning to start using the OpenX to serve ads on the online urban music magazine that I’m working on so I will want to help with the beta testing as soon as I get some creative to test it out with.
Thanks!
Comment by Technique — February 17, 2009 @ 10:33 am
I’d love to give this a test-run and happy to provide feedback.
I actually came here looking to install Open X for my Wordpress blog when I retheme it in the next couple of weeks so this would be perfect.
Please drop me an email if I can help,
Thanks,
Comment by Martin — February 19, 2009 @ 3:44 pm
Hello Scott,
I’d love to beta the openx plugin for wordpress. The url I’ve included above is for my wordpressblog.
Thanks.
Comment by Gilberto — March 1, 2009 @ 7:50 pm
i also volounteer for the beta testing. nice work switzer. we do adore you.
Comment by Amy — March 2, 2009 @ 4:21 am
Run WP 2.7.x and WPmu sites.
Would like to beta test if possible.
Comment by Gerry Humphrey — March 2, 2009 @ 10:58 pm
This sounds awesome, when is it due out?
Comment by Ian — March 3, 2009 @ 11:25 pm
Hi, i am interested in improvements and testing on this wordpress plugin. Also i may lead to integrate it for several systems.
Comment by Ozan Akçora — March 4, 2009 @ 3:26 pm
We are looking into ad managers for our site and would love to help out with the beta, if needed.
Comment by oneighturbo — March 5, 2009 @ 7:02 pm
I would be interested in Beta testing.
Comment by kevin — March 6, 2009 @ 12:32 pm
I am interested in beta testing.
Comment by Jamalah Bryan — March 10, 2009 @ 11:42 pm
I want test your plugin on my blog!!!
thanks
Comment by Leonardo Parada — March 12, 2009 @ 6:17 pm
Leonardo -
Test away! Advertising Manager is now in public beta. You can download a version here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advertising-manager/
Cheers,
Scott
Comment by Scott Switzer — March 12, 2009 @ 6:34 pm
I thought this was a working plugin and installed it and set it up and got nothing..
I can see the script text in the source, but the banners aren’t displaying on the page.
Was hoping to find some help here but I can see it isn’t released yet?
Comment by Lew — March 15, 2009 @ 10:57 pm
Lew -
Thanks for the message. Advertising manager is working for many people at the moment. Here are some places where you can get more information:
To download the latest version of Advertising Manager, go here:
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/advertising-manager.zip
More information, try:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advertising-manager/
http://code.openx.org/wiki/advertising-manager
And, if you have more questions, try the Advertising Manager at Wordpress here:
http://wordpress.org/tags/advertising-manager
Cheers…
Comment by Scott Switzer — March 16, 2009 @ 1:28 am
I am actually just starting my blogs and someone told me to go with Wordpress because of this advertising manager. There has been a lot of positive press and excitement.
Comment by Shalini — April 30, 2009 @ 2:44 pm
Hey dude , great plugin! Im just lost as to how i rotate multiple ads?
Cheers!
Comment by Football Blog — May 14, 2009 @ 11:16 pm
Just name all the ads you want to rotate the same thing, and they will rotate.
Cheers,
Scott
Comment by Scott Switzer — May 15, 2009 @ 2:56 am