Ad Manager (Archived) Ad Manager

Download Ad Manager 1.0 Beta 3

$39.95

Advertise to who you want, where you want, when you want!

If you haven't yet purchased the Ad Manager you can do so by going to account upgrades.

This is the beta release of the MercenaryDesign Ad Manager. It allows ads to be shown to who you want, where you want when you want with the XenForo criteria system and template hook position definitions.

Features

• use the XenForo criteria system to be very specific on when a certain ad should be shown
• show ads in various positions of your forum, don't have the position you want? Add it yourself with the position definition system by choosing a template hook to use. No hook in that place? One template edit to add it and you are set!
• style the ads container with inline CSS or set a class and style it in your own CSS files
• banner ads where you upload a banner and select a URL for it
• custom code ads for outside providers (eg adsense)
• display ads in order (giving even exposure) or randomly
• counts views and banner clicks

What's Next?

• first is an new ad type, ad group. This way you can select multiple ads and the show the group in a position effectively allowing more than one ad per position
• daily stats for ad views and banner clicks
• extended criteria options for things like NOT in node or ONLY on index... things the XenForo system lacks
• after I have a stable product doing what everyone expects attention will turn to more advanced features like the following:
  • ability to purchase ad space
  • integration with ad providers
  • revenue sharing
  • more WYSIWYG system for when selecting ad positions

Change Log

• 1.0 Beta 3
  • added positions (above quick reply, below quick reply, above everything (below everything coming soon but requires some recoding) and above bottom breadcrumbs)
  • added the ability to link to an external image for a banner instead of having to upload your own
  • positions in the ACP are now clear about how they currently work
  • fixed bug preventing ads from being deleted... finally!
  • fixed error when saving a position group
  • fixed interface bugs when editing a position
  • fixed above node list position
• 1.0 Beta 2.3
  • fixed a caching issue, still might be some around... somewhere :/
  • fixed style user criteria not working
• 1.0 Beta 2.2
  • fixed admin permissions restricted to super admins
  • added file health checks
• 1.0 Beta 2.1
  • fixed bug deleting banners
  • fixed extra ad that would show at the bottom of the page
  • fixed error that could show after deleting an ad
• 1.0 Beta 2
  • added ad view and banner click counting
  • ads are now rotated to get equal exposure by default with the option to have them random
  • fixed bug with adding/editing positions
  • fixed a bug causing page criteria to not work properly in certain positions
  • fixed a bug causing more than one ad to show in a person when it wasn't meant to
  • fixed various cache issues
  • lots of refactoring under the hood

Version 1.0 Beta 2 Released Package on first post updated
Remember to backup before updating. This is beta software!

• added ad view and banner click counting
• ads are now rotated to get equal exposure by default with the option to have them random
• fixed bug with adding/editing positions
• fixed a bug causing page criteria to not work properly in certain positions
• fixed a bug causing more than one ad to show in a person when it wasn't meant to
• fixed various cache issues
• lots of refactoring under the hood

Version 1.0 Beta 2.1 Released Package on first post updated
Remember to backup before updating. This is beta software!

• fixed bug deleting banners
• fixed extra ad that would show at the bottom of the page
• fixed error that could show after deleting an ad

There are caching issues it looks like causing some things to not show. That or you have the criteria setup wrong... hard to know what your issue is right now.

What settings? I'll have a release out to fix an ACP permission issue and to add file health checks soon. There are weird bugs being experienced by different people on here and I can't reproduce or debug any of them :/

Can you tell me what settings though? Any errors? What area wasn't working etc. I expect all these weird bugs to be caused by one little silly error since they are both random and unexplainable.

Positions won't be custom like that. They use the XenForo positions. It is up to the Admin to do things like that.

The only reason that could be in due to the XenPlus library in which case just uploading files should fix the issue. I can't think of anything I have changed that would cause this though...

XenPlus is a helper library I am developing and I haven't finalized specs for it yet. I am waiting on XenForo 1.2 to finish XenPlus library and my DevTools add-on and release them.

Version 1.0 Beta 2.2 Released Package on first post updated
Remember to backup before updating. This is beta software!

• fixed admin permissions restricted to super admins
• added file health checks

Go to tools -> file health check. Next release will be to find out your issues and other caching issues. No time right now though.

The free software add-ons took me around about 30 mins each. The gallery was actually in development before the Ad Manager and put on hold for it. It is also something I needed for one of my websites. Also, even having 4 paid add-ons it doesn't come near supporting me so I have had to turn my attention back to client work. I honestly don't see how your issues can come about though, the only thing not working is caching for other users. Did the health check work?

Also this is going to be a very feature rich add-on so will take up most my time whenever I build feature releases for it. For now I need it in a stable position with the current feature set so I can focus on other things. Another thing needed is a new website... once I get over this huge lump of work I have (ragtek add-ons too) I will have complete focus on paid add-ons.

Version 1.0 Beta 2.3 Released Package on first post updated
Remember to backup before updating. This is beta software!

• fixed a caching issue, still might be some around... somewhere :/
• fixed style user criteria not working

Version 1.0 Beta 3 Released Package on first post updated
Remember to backup before updating. This is beta software!

• added positions (above quick reply, below quick reply, above everything (below everything coming soon but requires some recoding) and above bottom breadcrumbs)
• added the ability to link to user external image for a banner instead of having to upload your own
• positions in the ACP are now clear about how they currently work
• fixed bug preventing ads from being deleted... finally!
• fixed error when saving a position group
• fixed interface bugs when editing a position
• fixed above node list position