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Annunaki: Thanks for letting us know how you solved it: that tutorial will help a lot of people 🙂 I’ll a add a link to it in the plugin’s FAQ.

Much appreciated.

dsims: Thanks for the feedback, but without any specific explanation of the problem I can’t do much with it.

Currently AdSense Manager may be uneccessary for many people but it does simplify placing the Ad Code into blog sidebar, posts and themes. I think you would have a hard time finding a plugin which is useful for every single user.

More than half the code is no longer related to AdSense specifically, allowing in-WordPress modification of multiple different Ad networks: which suggests you didn’t read the code.

The AdSense related stuff is in 2 parts: support for old-style locally configurable blocks (which some still prefer) remaining from previous versions, and secondly for Managed Ads arranged through Google. For the second, the configuration options are limited by design: although the Google system does not allow you to automatically wrap Ads in specific tags, nor select which pages of the blog they appear on.

Finally, because of the limitations imposed by “Managed Ad” networks, v3 is a move towards doing better what is best done locally. That is ad switching, user-dependent ads (i.e. different ads for members, depending on referrers, depending on post topic, category, etc.) which is not possible through any online network.

That, ultimately, is the source of the “obsolete code”: If you don’t like it, or want it, don’t use it.

Any feedback is welcome, as long as it leads somewhere.

Thanks.

alexchoowk: My understanding is that putting the function calls to WordPress in an LGPL file is OK but with a big caveat: I don’t think you can then distribute non GPL code with GPL code.

I found a big discussion on Joomla forums and Drupal mailing list which cover the same things. It seems the debate centres on whether plugins constitute “part of the program” – a question complicated by the fact that the language used by the GPL is more appropriate for compiled languages.

Plugins in WordPress become tightly integrated in the program, but only because WordPress has hooks to make it simple. Perhaps the fact that WordPress works with/without the plugins is enough to determine they are different programs (this is not fact, just thought).

Anyway. Good luck with that minefield 😉

miom:
1) You’re right: the posts/pages take priority for displaying ads because that content is filtered first. It’s kind of “just the way it is” with WordPress but I’ll look into it – it may be possible to scan for “possible ad locations” first and then place them later.

In reality this is probably going to come in with the Ad Zones I’m working on (as they are very much about *position* whereas options on individual ads will be about whether to display or not for a given page/visitor/whatever – if that makes sense?). I imagine some kind of pre-scan of positions and prioritisation will solve this. I’ll keep you updated.

2) Can you try and download 3.1.1 and see if the problem is still there? If it is, point me at your site and I’ll see what’s going on: I think it may be WordPress wrapping the Ad tag in paragraph tags which I can stop.

Thanks for the feedback: it’s good hearing real use-cases to adapt features to.

miom: The problems are to do with a bug in earlier versions where pages/posts view settings weren’t defaulted to ‘yes’ automatically. Just open the Network Defaults and then re-save.

I’ll put an back-compatible fix into the next release.

When I replied above I thought you’d downloaded the 3.0.12 (which has the ad-limiting feature you requested!) Have fun.

miom: If you delete the previous plugin and add the new one the saved settings won’t be removed. When you activate the new version you should get a message at the top telling you that the new plugin has been activated and the old settings (from AdSense Manager v2.x) have been upgraded. At this point it also takes a backup of your previous settings so it can roll them back for you if required.

Version 3.0.12 should be coming out on Saturday. Making it work requires a few fairly big changes to code but nothing too difficult – I have the basics working right now – unfortunately I have an exam tomorrow morning so I will be busy cramming tonight. It will automatically limit ads according to the T&Cs.

Where an ad is not shown because of the limit there should be no white space (it literally does not output the ad, rather than showing white space as Google does).

I’ll drop a note here when 3.0.12 is ready for download.

Thanks for the clarification!