Title: UCD Ads for WooCommerce Author: Urban Craft Department Published: September 14, 2026 Last modified: September 14, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/ucd-ads-for-woocommerce.svg) # UCD Ads for WooCommerce By [Urban Craft Department](https://profiles.wordpress.org/urbancraftdepartment/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/ucd-ads-for-woocommerce.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ucd-ads-for-woocommerce/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ucd-ads-for-woocommerce/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ucd-ads-for-woocommerce/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ucd-ads-for-woocommerce/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/ucd-ads-for-woocommerce/) ## Description UCD Ads Network is a self-serve ad network: advertisers set up their own campaigns with their own budget, and publishers (you) automatically earn credit every time one of those ads is shown on your site. This is the WooCommerce-specific version of UCD Ads Network’s WordPress plugin. Instead of placing a shortcode yourself, you connect your account once and toggle on the storefront placements where you want ads to appear — this plugin handles inserting them at the right spot on each page. **Placements you can enable, each with its own ad unit:** * Shop page — top of the product grid * Single product page — just below “Add to cart” * Cart page * Order received / thank-you page **How it works:** 1. Create a free account at ads.urbancraftdepartment.com, go to Settings API Keys, and generate a key. 2. Go to WooCommerce Settings UCD Ads and paste that key in to connect your account. 3. Pick an existing ad unit from the dropdown for each placement you enable, or create a new one without leaving the page. An ad only appears once a matching, active campaign exists — an empty placement simply means no suitable campaign is bidding at that moment, not an error. Prefer to place ads yourself instead of the fixed placements above (e.g. inside a specific page template)? Use the general-purpose “UCD Ads Network” plugin’s `[ ucd_ad]` shortcode alongside this one — both can be installed at once. ### External services This plugin connects to UCD Ads Network (ads.urbancraftdepartment.com) to serve ads and manage your publisher account. It requires a free account on that service to function. The following happens: * **When you connect your account** (WooCommerce Settings UCD Ads): the API key you paste is sent to ads.urbancraftdepartment.com to verify it and fetch your organization’s account info. * **When you list or create an ad unit**: your site’s domain name and the ad unit’s name are sent to ads.urbancraftdepartment.com, using your stored API key for authentication. * **On every page view of an enabled placement** (shop, product, cart, or thank- you page): the visitor’s own browser loads a small script directly from ads. urbancraftdepartment.com (`/ucd-embed-autoscale.js`) and requests an ad to display. As with any such request, the visitor’s IP address, User-Agent, and referring page URL are visible to ads.urbancraftdepartment.com — the same as loading an image or script from any other external site. This is the plugin’s core function and cannot be disabled while still showing ads. No advertising cookies are set by this request. * **When a visitor clicks an ad**, their browser is redirected through ads.urbancraftdepartment. com/v1/click/… to the advertiser’s own site, so the click can be attributed and the advertiser’s campaign charged. UCD Ads Network Terms of Service: https://ads.urbancraftdepartment.com/voorwaarden UCD Ads Network Privacy Policy: https://ads.urbancraftdepartment.com/privacy ## Installation 1. Make sure WooCommerce is installed and active. 2. Upload the plugin folder to `/wp-content/plugins/`, or install it through the WordPress plugin screen. 3. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” screen. 4. Go to WooCommerce Settings UCD Ads, connect your account with an API key, then enable and configure the placements you want. ## FAQ ### I don’t see an ad on a placement I enabled — is something broken? Not necessarily. A placement only shows an ad when there’s currently an approved, paid campaign that matches (every ad unit here auto-scales to fit, so size is never the blocker) and is within budget and targeting. If none exists, the placement simply stays empty — that’s normal, not a fault. ### Do I need a different ad unit for every placement? No, you can reuse the same one everywhere, or create a separate one per placement— up to you. ### How and when do I get paid? UCD Ads Network works with credit, not direct payout: every ad shown earns credit on your UCD Ads Network account, automatically deducted from your own next invoice there. See ads.urbancraftdepartment.com/hoe-het-werkt for the full explanation. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “UCD Ads for WooCommerce” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Urban Craft Department ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/urbancraftdepartment/) [Translate “UCD Ads for WooCommerce” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/ucd-ads-for-woocommerce) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ucd-ads-for-woocommerce/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/ucd-ads-for-woocommerce/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/ucd-ads-for-woocommerce/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/ucd-ads-for-woocommerce/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.0.0 * First release: connect an account, and enable/configure ads on the shop, single product, cart, and thank-you pages. ## Meta * Version **1.0.0** * Last updated **1 day ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 5.8 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.1** * PHP version ** 7.4 or higher ** * Tags * [ad network](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ad-network/)[ads](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ads/) [advertising](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/advertising/)[monetization](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/monetization/) [woocommerce](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/woocommerce/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ucd-ads-for-woocommerce/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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