AdRotate Banner Manager 5.12 available today!

AdRotate Banner Manager 5.12 improves dynamic groups by no longer having every advert visible in some situations. Also, just like in AdRotate Pro it removes a mostly unused cache for stats.

This update also re-introduces an automated mechanism to finish updates. So the “click finish updates” prompt should not be necessary for every update that changes something in settings or the database.
And finally, the dashboard has been further optimized in a few spots.

Changes in AdRotate 5.12

  • [change] Dashboard updates
  • [tweak] All but the first ads are set to display:none; for dynamic groups
  • [new] Automated trigger after updates to finish the update
  • [removed] wp_cache_set() for stats

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 5.12.3 – Improvements, tweaks and fixes

AdRotate Professional 5.12.3 has a number of fixes and improvements to further enhance your advertising capabilities.
Once again based on user feedback I’ve revised how tracking pixels are added to certain adverts. Instead of tagging the actual advert image AdRotate now adds its own separate pixel for impression tracking. This change was made to prevent double tagging for adverts with their own pixel, or that have multiple images.

Along the way I also figured out a way to not include empty onclick attributes to ads by revising the syntax for the adcode a bit. Not a big deal, but some javascripts may get confused by the old method. And cleaner code is just better of-course.

Support options

The ticket support form now includes a dropdown menu where you can select an advert to include in your ticket. This generates a hashed version (same as the hash in the portability feature added last year) of your advert and its direct settings. I can import this code into my test site and see if the advert works or in many cases what’s wrong with it.

This will be a great tool to troubleshoot adverts that you can’t get to work but are unsure what’s going wrong.
For the time being no Group or Schedule settings are included. But perhaps that can be added later on if you guys like the feature. Let me know in the comments below or through the feedback option in the Ticket Support form.

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 the update. In older versions that wasn’t the case.

Changes in AdRotate Professional 5.12.3

  • [fix] No longer add empty onclick attributes to links
  • [fix] Correct license expiry date when activating a license
  • [new] Include the advert you need help with in your support request
  • [tweak] Add tracking pixel to ads instead of tagging the banner image
  • [tweak] Support notification text updated
  • [tweak] Support request form text updated

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 5.12.2 – Improvements, tweaks and fixes

AdRotate Professional 5.12.2 has a number of improvements for new users with better support links and information for licenses.
Based on user feedback it came to light that caching certain stats related queries make no sense anymore and a the ongoing issue with the missing license form has been resolved.

Google Analytics 4

Recently 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 of-course because it’s less of a hassle to get working. But both methods are interchangeable with AdRotate sending the same Events.

Changes in AdRotate Professional 5.12.2

  • [added] Support links for new users on the license page
  • [added] Better support links for new users on the contact form
  • [removed] Hide license option
  • [removed] wp_cache_set() for stats dashboard
  • [fix] Group CSS value saving as a wrong type on some new setups

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.

Matomo Tracker 1.2.9 available now!

Matomo Tracker by Arnan de Gans

A quick update for Matomo Tracker to ensure ClassicPress 1.5.2 compatibility. As well as some readme and dashboard tweaks.

Matomo Analytics is more better

With the increasing distrust of big tech companies like Google and Facebook, Matomo sits comfortably to host your website analytics securely and privately. With Matomo you can track stats for your website and other things, like an App, on your terms. Without some other company looking over your shoulder. Your analytics are yours, and nobody has access to them.

That’s great. For me, Matomo replaced Google Analytics entirely. I ditched Jetpack Stats and now rely on Matomo for all of my tracking.
I track emails, RSS feeds and just common website stats. And I use my Matomo Analytics plugin to do so. It’s simple and ‘more better’!

Changes for Matomo Tracker 1.2.9

  • Tested to work with ClassicPress 1.5+
  • Updated support links

AdRotate Pro 5.12.1 – Improved Google Analytics 4 support!

AdRotate Professional 5.12.1 has a number of refinements for Google Analytics as well as some other improvements. Both the standard Global Tag and Tag Manager implementations now deliver the data to Google in a way that Google Analytics can actually use and make sense.
The custom events have been redone and replace previous implementations. Both manuals have been updated.

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

And finally, a few tweaks have been made to the internal update checks for updates. With the new caching that got introduced a few versions ago, all the inbetween update checks are useless. So these have been removed. And a silly bug where the license form was hidden has been fixed.

yay! 🥳

Changes in AdRotate Professional 5.12.1

  • [new] Support for ZIP files generated in Microsoft Windows
  • [tweak] Improved reporting to GA4 using the click event
  • [tweak] Improved reporting to GA4 using the impression event
  • [tweak] Removed redundant update checks
  • [fix] Hide license not consistent throughout settings

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.