I created a new site for my old escape games blog, and i did choose wordpress for it. I really like this blog engine, because of plugins. This gives me freedom. So i did looking for a cool banner rotator script, which randomly rotate my banners. I found some, but it was hard to use, can not handle any type of banners, etc… So i decided, i will write my own. The other reason was, i would like to know how to write a plugin, understand the methods, i would like to know the functions, filters, actions.
So i wrote this plugin, and tested it, and it is works like a dream.
If you would like to try or use this, go to my Banner Garden Plugin for WordPress page.
Here are some screenshots of the plugin.
UPDATE!
The development of this plugin are suspended…
28 Comments
It’s a nice plugin and looks like it’s working. If you want to upgrade it a bit, I suggest you add in the “add banner” page two new fields for width and height, which will then be used in the display of the campaign and actual ad serving.
Good work!
i am pleased to give you this plugin!
thank you for your suggestion. i will improve this plugin, but now i did start a new web site, so i am working on that.
if you have some time, please rate it, and say, this plugin is works on wordpress.org plugin page.
anyway, thanks again.
Hello, Thanks for this script. I did installed the plugin and I’m writing the code: [bannergarden id="1"] inside of a page (not a post) and the final output is still the same code: [bannergarden id="1"], without rendering the image for the banner. Do you know what are the common errors we can have when using your plugin?
Thanks for your time
Did you turned on the plugin?
Yeap. I did.
Marco: today, i realized, the ob_start / ob_end what i called, happened after header, and before footer.
Can you send me a link, where i can see, where did you exactly placed your banner?
Your plugin is just what I need but I just installed it into WP3.0 and when I create a campaign no button is displayed to save it
Hi Greg!
I developed it under 2.9.2
Now i have no time to testing WP3, but soon as possible, i will.
Hi vaso, thnx for your application Banner garden. I use wp3.0 and like the previous post, the save button dosen’t display…would be awesome if you could help me with that
Hello, Thanks for your plugin but I needed to use another option. I will try to use it for future projects.
Thanks again!
hi, i am using wp 3.0 and when i go to create a new campaign, there is no “save” button, therefore i’m never able to create a campaign.
i’m using wootube theme from woo themes. any ideas?
Its looks gr8 but when i’m enabling it from admin it shows the following error–
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ECHO, expecting T_FUNCTION in C:\wamp\www\wordpress-3.0\wp-content\plugins\banner-garden\bannergarden.class.php on line 420
i donno what it is but this has happened for first time with me.
i will be glad if u help me out.
thanks
Guys, i checked out it, and it should works under 3.0 also! I’ve downloaded it now, because i need it for a project, and here are some other environment. I realized, i used somewhere some php short tag!
As i will have some time, i will fix it. Until that time, open the php files and find
After this, it should work! Sorry for the inconvenience!
Awesome tool.
I would like to insert one short code into my home page once and leave it there. Then I would like to set up an image for each month and have the tool automatically expire the monthly image as the date turns over. Then I can just set and forget.
Your current design requires me to put 12 short codes in the the home page code to accomplish the same thing.
By the way, people are asking questions on the WordPress site/Plug-ins about this tool. You may want to stop over there and check it out.
I should have said that I want only one monthly image to display at a time on the home page.
I want to use this for my open dates/times for that month. Right now I need to remember to go in and change out the image at the beginning of each month and I often forget (then my customers are left wondering when I am going to be open).
Hi!
I will write it to my todo list.
Thank you for the idea.
Anyway, where is this “on the WordPress site/Plug-ins about this tool” where the people asks questions?
Great widget. How an I add more than one banner to display at a time without doing code?
hi tom!
you mean, at the sidebar? i really don’t know. i was wondering, when i add a widget, it is disappear from widget list…
Hey, I´m using the Banner Garden. Its pretty cool, a very simple and poweful gear.
But i think thats can be better than now:
Rotate, change the banner, without recharge the page, i think its possible with AJAX.
In other words: Banners could be rotated automatically in pass of X seconds without recharge the page.
With this, Banner Garden will become the perfect plugin to ADS wordpressts, definitely.
Hi, great plugin and simple to use. Just what I am looking for. Is it possible to have the shortcode rotate all campaigns? This is because the dates schedule is only applicable per campaign rather than on per ad basis and my advertisers come and go at different times buying the same spot. It would be great if we can somehow limit the ads/banners by time rather than the whole campaign. I love your plugin! Simple to use and great interface.
Sorry, just to add, it would be great if we could rotate multiple specific campaigns with 1 shortcode. For e.g, [bannergarden id="1", "2", "3"] or something like that. As of now, the plugin doesn’t work that way.
Hi, I’ve tried the quick fix you’ve posted for using your plugin on WordPress 3.0, changing every <? to <?php (I only found 2 instences), but can't get it to work, the code on my post: [bannergarden id="1"] get's empty replaced.
Thanks in advance for any help and for making this amazing plugin.
Hi there,
do you think it could be possible, to get a small statistic for the banners? impressions and clicks?
Thanks and best regards
Joachim
I am trying to use Banner Garden, but there is no save button when I try to create a campaign. Am I missing something. Even deleted the first one and downloaded it again through WordPress. Thanks. Judy
Great plug in!!!!, simple and flexible, excelent job!.
Just a suggestion, there are some banners that can be used in more than 1 campaign. So far i’ve been creating duplicated banners so i can use them in more than one campaing.
If banners can be categorized the same way posts can, this is, more than one category thru a check box, that would be great!
Thanks and regards,
Hey there,
How do get a banner in the footer?
[bannergarden id="1"]
Not picking up the shortcode
Nice plugin.
Will be good to put “wmode:opaque” or “wmode:transparent” in flash parameters when generating the frontend code. I’ve got some javascript popups which are opened behind the banner and thus cannot be read. I fixed the code myself (added wmode:\’opaque\’ at line 119 in bannergarden_frontend.class.php)
Regards
Is there a way we can Center Banners within the sidebar widget space currently they are aligned to the left and this leave a large white space next to the banner. personally I think it would be good to have it default to center.