Managing advertising campaigns is easier than you may think with the right plugin. There are a number of different ways you can add advertisements to your WordPress blog and I thought I would take the time to list the plugins that I feel work best for me. Various WordPress plugins may assign advertising blocks to specific areas, or allow you to customize where they appear. Others will automatically inject them between blog posts or within the post content itself. Look closely at each plugin to determine what works best for you. Chances are you will be able to utilize one or more of these plugins to fit your needs.
AdRotate – Favorite
Add and manage the code from the dashboard and show a random banner, or multiple, on your site. The plugin supports groups for banners allowing to tie certain banners to different areas of the website. Easy management from the dashboard allows you to quickly oversee, add and edit banner code. Previewing of banners when editing them. And even some statistical values. [ Download ]
Advertising Manager
This plugin will manage and rotate your Google Adsense and other ads on your WordPress blog. It automatically recognizes many ad networks including Google Adsense, AdBrite, Adify, AdGridWork, Adpinion, Adroll, Chitika, Commission Junction, CrispAds, OpenX, ShoppingAds, Yahoo!PN, and WidgetBucks. Other ad networks can be used as well. [ Download ]
WP-Insert
Wp-Insert is the most powerful yet easiest to use wordpress ad management plugin which does a lot more than ad management. Wp-Insert can manage your feeds, google analytics, blog editing and even make editing your themes easier for you. All from within a well contained and easy to use interface. [ Download ]
Smart Ads
Smart Ads automatically inserts advertisements like Google’s Adsense above and below your post content. These advertisements are only visible when viewing a single post (single.php or page.php). Since it doesn’t make sense to fill small posts with ads, users can set a “Wordcount” minimum for their advertisements. Smart Ads will only insert advertisements into posts that meet or exceed the desired Wordcount. Also, to ensure that new content remains fresh, users can choose to only place ads on posts that are over a certain amount of days old. Advertisements can be manually disabled on a post-by-post basis while writing a post, by category, or for registered blog members. [ Download ]
WP Tag Ads
Start making money with your blog today with WP Tag Ads! WP Tag Ads is a way to display eBay auctions on your WordPress blog. Ads are served based on post tags, allowing you to have complete control over the ads you see inside of a post. This is different then say Google Adsense where the page is crawled then ads are displayed based on the findings. [ Download ]
Page Peel
This plugin adds new Web 2.0 flash Page Peel Ad to your WP powered blog. It preloads big image so you won’t get delay before displaying image when you hover ad like in ordinary Page Peel scripts. [ Download ]
WP125
If you’ve given up the low-paying and slightly obtrusive ad networks used by many new bloggers, in favor of selling ads directly, you may have been frustrated with the excessive time involved managing your ads. Not only do you have to find advertisers to sponsor your blog, you have to manually edit your template to put the ad in, and then head over to your favorite calendar app to set an alert to remind you when to take the ad down. [ Download ]
WordPress-Banner
WP Banner Admin allows you to manage various banner ads from different affiliate programs.
[ Download ]
Ozh’ Who Sees Ads
Who Sees Ads is an advanced ad management plugin that lets you decide who will see your ads, for instance Adsense, depending on user defined conditions. You can manage ads in your templates or within posts and pages. [ Download ]
Ad-minister
Ad-minister is a plugin that adds a easy to use WordPress management system for adverts and other static content. [ Download ]
I hope you find these plugins useful. What is your favorite and why?
Other Resources
- WordPress 3.0.1
- PHP 4 and MySQL 4 End of Life Announcement
- 100 Million Plugin Downloads and Counting
- Summer of WordCamp
- WordPress 3.0 "Thelonious"
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