Plugin Author
Arnan
(@adegans)
Many years ago there was a shortcode for a front-end dashboard. But it didn’t work well with most themes and almost nobody used the feature so that got removed somewhere in 2018 I think.
The current advertiser dashboard which has much more options and control for the users (advertisers) is in the backend.
You can see the required access for it in Settings > Access Roles.
After enabling advertisers you can set some more options per user in each users profile.
You can read a bit more about how to set things up here: https://ajdg.solutions/support/knowledgebase.php?category=8
Thank you @adegans for the reply, but this appears to only work with sites using the stock admin area. Not for sites depending on frontend dashboards like WooCommerce or Ultimate Member, correct? Much fewer sites use the WP admin area for users than before.
Plugin Author
Arnan
(@adegans)
I’m not familiar with Ultimate member, but in WooCommerce there should be a setting somewhere to allow people into the dashboard. Some of those membership plugins allow for role management which then should let you configure that advertisers get access – If it lists all roles, all the ones from AdRotate have ‘adrotate_’ in the name.
A ‘advertiser’ is just a ‘subscriber’ (with only read access) user with the extra AdRotate stuff added to it.
So permissions should be very minimal.
Thank you for the reply. The point is that the the WP dashboard is off limits, for various reasons, and sites with actual registered users tend to use the front end. With a front end already in place for user profiles, submissions, forum, WooCommerce, etc., it would be confusing and not make sense to the users to find themselves in a new dashboard setting in the back end of WP. I want to start offering ads directly to advertisers, but a plugin without front end ad management, or at least stats, isn’t ideal. I think part of the reason I went Pro was to have advertiser pages. Thank you again for the effort you put into this plugin, the excellent free version, and great support. As a pro user, I would prefer to continue using AdRotate, but will have to find another solution moving forward.
Plugin Author
Arnan
(@adegans)
Or, sell the ads and don’t give the advertisers access to editing/viewing them 😉
But if that’s a must have, then the backend is less than ideal.
If you have a developer, creating a custom shortcode to review stats wouldn’t be too hard to make though.
Good ideas to consider. Thank you.
