Title: [Plugin: Advertising Manager] Randomizing ads and missing documentation
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Advertising Manager] Randomizing ads and missing documentation

 *  Resolved [spencersokol](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spencersokol/)
 * (@spencersokol)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-advertising-manager-randomizing-ads-and-missing-documentation/)
 * I’d really love to use this plugin to rotate ads from within my theme. Is there
   a way to do this? The documentation site stil seems to be not “all there”. 😉
 * The only function I’ve found is the advman_ad($name). I suppose I could create
   a cross-reference of groups of ads to randomly pull out a name. Or perhaps hit
   up the database to dynamically create groups based on some given parameters. 
   Is that the preferred method at this point?
 * Basically, I don’t want to recreate the wheel if it’s already in the plugin somewhere
   and I just don’t know it.

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 *  Thread Starter [spencersokol](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spencersokol/)
 * (@spencersokol)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-advertising-manager-randomizing-ads-and-missing-documentation/#post-1113002)
 * Speaking of hitting up the database, in what tables are these ads stored?
 *  [switzer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/switzer/)
 * (@switzer)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-advertising-manager-randomizing-ads-and-missing-documentation/#post-1113259)
 * spencersokol:
 * Advertising Manager rotates ads. Basically, name all the ads you want to rotate
   the same thing. For example, if you have an ad at the top of your sidebar, and
   you want to rotate Google Adsense with Adify, you would name them both:
 * ‘right-sidebar-top’
 * Advertising Manager would rotate these ads. You can change the weight setting
   in the ads to optimise the rotation – for example, if you want to show Adify 
   75% of the time and Google 25% of the time, you would set the weight of the Adify
   ad to 3, and leave the Google ad at 1.
 * I hope this helps,
    Scott
 *  Thread Starter [spencersokol](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spencersokol/)
 * (@spencersokol)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-advertising-manager-randomizing-ads-and-missing-documentation/#post-1113315)
 * Yes, that should help. I will try that out. Thanks!

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