I’m working on several WordPress based projects right now. A few of these projects will require advertising a little more robust (and profitable) than Google AdSense alone. Now I’m not saying that AdSense hasn’t made me a few dollars here and there, but for two of the sites I’m putting together I’m going to have a need to sell my own advertising blocks, and it’s much more convenient to have that functionality built into the dashboard.
Enter WPAds. Unlike a lot of ad servers for WordPress, WPAds doesn’t rely on a text file or anything else I’m going to have to spend a ton of time mucking with on a weekly basis. The code is object oriented, cleanly commented and appears fairly simple to modify if the need arises. (and it almost always does in larger applications!)
I’ve only tinkered with this plugin a bit today, but so far it seems pretty stable and worked well for me on my test installation. I’ll revisit later and give a more time-tested review.
I did not see a GPL license attached to the plugin, so my assumption is that it’s not released under the GPL, though I’m still checking into this. In any case, don’t release a derivative version if you make modifications, unless you’re sure that it’s legal to do so.
Popularity: 6% [?]
I should have read this before using my own text-based adrotator. I was enticed to use adrotator after reading this post http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/09/30/which-wordpress-plugins-do-you-use/
Can you say how I can contact (email) the author of this plugin?
Henry,
Unfortunately I don’t see any contact information on his blog. My best suggestion would be to leave a comment there
and wait for a reply