Random Rotating Ads – WP Plugin
The Random Rotating Ads Plugin for WordPress, not only helps keep your blog ads from getting stale, but it has another benefit that few people seem aware of..?
Ok I accept that adverts are not everyone’s cup of tea, but for those of us that do place Google Adsense or any other type of ads in our pages, we soon become very aware of the terrible slowing effect this has on our sites, the Javascript used for these adverts is very often highlighted by Yslow as being one of the culprits in slowing down our site load times!
This can often put us in a catch 22 situation, do we scrap the adverts & hope for better site load times or do we keep the adverts & prey that our web pages are not slowed sufficiently to effect our ranking..? Ah decisions, decisions eh..? Well my friends you can breathe a huge sigh of relief ! This plugin, although probably not designed to do this, can actually alleviate many of the problem caused by inserting bits of advert Java script throughout our WordPress pages.
Mix & Match Your Ad Code
With this Random Rotating Ad WP Plugin you can actually show ANY type of ads, including: Google Adsense, affiliate ads, banners, images, flash, text, etc… There’s no limit to the number of ads you can put into rotation for any particular ad slot and there is no need to scrap Google Adsense because you wish to use the space for other adverts. You simply access the admin panel & then all you do is put the Adsense code in one box, Commission Junction in the next box & ebay code in the 3rd box, then click save & your given a template tag of php code like the one below;
[<?php if (function_exists('dfrads')) { echo dfrads('9430331'); } ?>]
This tag is then pasted into your template where you wish the ads to show & that is all there is to it..! When the page loads, the plugin will select one of the 3 adverts we saved earlier and that will then be displayed on the page exactly where you placed the tag! It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to understand the benefits of replacing the chunk of code below, with the short line of php code above!
By having these advert scripts remote from your pages, they no longer have an adverse effect on your load times, also you are exchanging what is often a large chunk of Java script for a single line of php code, which helps reduce the size of your pages & can easily be compressed along with the rest of the page unlike Java, which has to be minified instead of gzipped.
If you want to see a first hand example of this WP Plugin in action, then simply refresh this page a few times and you should see the 300 x 250 ad blocks change & also the 468 x 60 banner in the header.
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Posted by Steve (Admin)
on Nov 29 2011. Filed under Wordpress Plugins.
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I think this one is better than mine, its really interesting.