Author: Arnan de Gans

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AdRotate Pro 5.13.1 – Hotfix update for Mobile Detect

AdRotate Professional 5.13.1 fixes the incorrect loading of the new version of Mobile Detect.
As pointed out in several support tickets and this forum post – https://ajdg.solutions/forums/topic/class-mobile_detect-not-found/.

The new version has moved to a Namespace, which I didn’t notice in my testing as my test page was not loading Mobile Detect at all…
This has also been fixed so future tests will work more reliably.

The update is rolling out now and should be available soon through your dashboard.
If you do not want to wait for the automatic update you can update the plugin manually through the Manual steps described on this page – https://ajdg.solutions/support/adrotate-manuals/upgrade-adrotate-pro-to-a-newer-version/.

Changes in AdRotate Professional 5.13.1

  • [fix] Correctly loading Mobile Detect

Download

The update is available now, you can update through automatic updates in your dashboard or via direct download in your dashboard.
Or if you do not have AdRotate Pro yet, get your copy today through the product pages below.

AdRotate Pro 5.13 – Quality of life improvements

AdRotate Professional 5.13 improves and fixes a number of things in the Advertiser dashboard and improves management of advertiser created adverts. Color coding of ads now works more logical and the moderation dropdown menu when approving or rejecting ads works easier now.

AdRotate Pro has been tested to work on WordPress 6.3.1. A new version of MobileDetect has been bundled. MobileDetect handles on which device or operating system adverts are shown.
And the AdRotate Geo database, on my server, has been updated to the latest GeoIP database from Maxmind. This is of-course important for Geo Targeting accuracy.

Setting up AdRotate Professional with Google Analytics 4

Earlier this year AdRotate Pro stats for Google Analytics 4 got overhauled. If you’re using GA4 you can read in the manuals below how to set it up.

Several people have voiced concerns over missing data or events not being reported to Google Analytics. I have tested this and both the Universal Tag and Tag Manager implementation work as intended with all data being present.
The dashboard from Google Analytics 4 is really terrible set up though, so it’s easy to miss where your data goes.
I don’t use GA4 myself, if someone knowledgable with its event reporting has a better idea to send/receive data for stats then get in touch, perhaps we can improve the display of data withe a better manual or by sending events differently.

Changes in AdRotate Professional 5.13

  • [fix] Typo in DONOTCACHEOBJECT constant name
  • [fix] Wrong weight for advertiser created adverts
  • [fix] Advert status selector when moderating advertiser adverts
  • [update] Updated MobileDetect to version 3.74
  • [tweak] Description text for Advert Generator
  • [tweak] Added title to weekday ticks for schedules
  • [tweak] Added title to impression ticks for schedules
  • [new] Devices logic checks to advertiser dashboard
  • [new] Dashboard notification when ads are queued up
  • [removed] Experimental weight levels from advertiser dashboard
  • [api] Updated AdRotate Geo IP/country database

Download

The update is available now, you can update through automatic updates in your dashboard or via direct download in your dashboard.
Or if you do not have AdRotate Pro yet, get your copy today through the product pages below.

AdRotate Banner Manager 5.12.4 – Available now!

This update is tested to work with the upcoming WordPress 6.3 and includes a bug fix for the update routine causing errors when completing the update. The update would success but a big fat error would tell you it wouldn’t. This works confusing and is misleading.

This issue was caused by a internal redirect in the update routine that should no happen. This is now fixed.

Choose to manage your own adverts

AdRotate Banner Manager lets you easily manage your own adverts but also works great with premade ads like you get from Google AdSense, Amazong Affiliates or other advertising networks. Whether you sell your own ad spaces to local businesses and get their banner or run a more automated setup. AdRotate easily handles it all.

Place your ad campaigns with easy to use Blocks, Widgets, Post Injection or Shortcodes with little to no knowledge of code.
Schedule the campaigns ahead and make it easy on yourself.
Read more about the pro’s and cons of using ad networks here – Use an advertising network or sell ad space yourself?

Changes in AdRotate 5.12.4

  • [fix] Wrong ‘update failed’ error when updating to version 5.12.3
  • [fix] No longer redirects to Settings page when update completes

Download

Grab your update today, available through automatic updates in your dashboard or via direct download through my website. Or if you do not have AdRotate Banner Manager or AdRotate Professional yet, get your copy today through the product pages below.

AdRotate Banner Manager 5.12.3 – Available now!

This update is tested to work with the upcoming WordPress 6.3 and includes a bug fix for caching excluding certain tasks from being cached so that stats work more reliable in certain situations.

Choose to manage your own adverts

AdRotate Banner Manager lets you easily manage your own adverts but also works great with premade ads like you get from Google AdSense, Amazong Affiliates or other advertising networks. Whether you sell your own ad spaces to local businesses and get their banner or run a more automated setup. AdRotate easily handles it all.

Place your ad campaigns with easy to use Blocks, Widgets, Post Injection or Shortcodes with little to no knowledge of code.
Schedule the campaigns ahead and make it easy on yourself.
Read more about the pro’s and cons of using ad networks here – Use an advertising network or sell ad space yourself?

Changes in AdRotate 5.12.3

  • [fix] Typo in DONOTCACHEOBJECT constant name

Download

Grab your update today, available through automatic updates in your dashboard or via direct download through my website. Or if you do not have AdRotate Banner Manager or AdRotate Professional yet, get your copy today through the product pages below.

AdRotate Pro 5.12.5 – Improved zip file handling

AdRotate Professional 5.12.5 improves the setting up of HTML5 adverts that come in a prepackaged zip file. As you may know you can upload complete and functional HTML5 adverts as a zip file via the Asset Manager in AdRotate Professional. The idea is that if you get a complete HTML5 advert sent to you you do not have to imitate the folder structure and upload each file separately. Instead you just upload the zip file and AdRotate Pro does all that for you.

Easy peasy.

Along with improved zip file handling a number of small improvements to the dashboard have been included as well.

Supporting Zip Files

AdRotate Pro always supported a number of ‘types’ of zip files. Most commonly those created and supported by Microsoft Windows and Apple macOS. In this update a few less used types are added as well so that there won’t be (or less so) issues with the internal mime-type of the file. This is sort of like an identifier for Operating Systems so they know its actually a zip file and not a virus masquerading as one. Every file has a mime-type for this purpose.

AdRotate Pro now supports more variations and handles errors better when a file is not what it appears to be.
More safe, more support, more better!

Setting up AdRotate Professional with Google Analytics 4

Earlier this year AdRotate Pro stats for Google Analytics 4 got overhauled. If you’re using GA4 you can read in the manuals below how to set it up.

My preferred method is still the Global Tag, this is of-course because it’s less of a hassle to get working. But both methods are interchangeable with AdRotate sending the same Events since version 5.12.3.

Changes in AdRotate Professional 5.12.5

  • [fix] Improved handling for uploaded zip files
  • [fix] Missing space in welcome popup title
  • [fix] Schedule expiry notifications
  • [tweak] Improved error reporting for uploaded zip files
  • [tweak] Added ‘application/zip-compressed’ as acceptable mime-type
  • [tweak] Simplified General Settings page
  • [tweak] Clarified test button text on Notifications settings page
  • [tweak] Updated schedule selection when editing adverts

Download

The update is available now, you can update through automatic updates in your dashboard or via direct download in your dashboard.
Or if you do not have AdRotate Pro yet, get your copy today through the product pages below.