Tag: api

AdRotate Pro 5.23.3 – Improved error handling

AdRotate Pro 5.23.3 improves a number of things for new users where the dashboard redirect has been removed. For existing users dashboard notifications no handle error notifications a lot better and include more useful information. An actual error code for example.
The Update API has been updated as well, which also includes a number of improvements to server responses.

Please report suggestions and issues

If you see something isn’t right with the plugin, even stupid things like typo’s. Please report them. AdRotate Pro users can use the ticket system for that. The primary contact form is available through your dashboard, but you can also use the contact form on my website.

Without your reports, suggestions or insights I can’t improve the plugin. So please send in your suggestions and report issues, bugs and quirks as soon as possible. Providing some insights on why software doesn’t work for you is very important for developers to improve their products.

Changes in version 5.23.3

  • Fix – Removed unreliable/broken WordPress redirect when activating the plugin
  • Fix – Improved error handling for dashboard notifications
  • Fix – Improved error handling for failed license (de)activation
  • Update – AJdG Updates 1.8.7
  • Improved error handling when banned from an API
  • Improved error handling when sending invalid requests to an API

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 5.23.1 – Improved activation routine

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AdRotate Professional 5.23.1 fixes one small issue that happened for some people when they first activate the plugin. It would appear that WordPress doesn’t reload options when a plugin is activated. This results in a “unexpected output” warning on the WordPress dashboard if you’ve never had any version of AdRotate or AdRotate Pro installed.

A dumb bug to have, but it’s now fixed.

Additionally, some small improvements have been made to the License and Update API, these updated libraries have been included as well.

Reporting issues

If you see something isn’t right with AdRotate Pro, even innocent things like typo’s, please report them. AdRotate Pro has a ticket support system just for things like this. No issue is insignificant, always get in touch and let me know about your question or concerns.

Without your reports, insights or even opinions I can’t improve my plugins. So please report issues, bugs and quirks as soon as possible. Providing some insights on why software doesn’t work for you is very important!

AdRotate Professional License shakeup

To simplify licensing, pricing and managing things the 5 available licenses have been re-done. The Lite license has been discontinued due to lack of interest. And the Developer license has been discontinued as well. To make up the loss of the Developer License the Multi license gets more activations.

The Multi license now allows for 20 websites/activations instead of the traditional 5 and is priced accordingly at €199 Euros. And finally, the Duo license has been priced more logically at €79 Euros.

Currently active Lite licenses have the restrictions removed and now acts as a Single license. So for those few who bought it, starting with AdRotate Pro 5.22 and onwards, you’ll get the same features as the Single license.
Likewise the Developer license has been largely removed from the plugin in terms of wording and descriptions. But will continue to work mostly the same.

Changes in version 5.23.1

  • Fix – Output warning when activating the plugin for the first time
  • Update – License API to version 1.8.6
  • Update – Update API to version 2.1

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.

Coupon Catcher for WooCommerce 1.1 – Adding auto-updates

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Coupon Catcher is the latest plugin to gain support for automated updates. This little plugin receives irregular updates and installing them manually is a bit of a chore, as is with any plugin. No more! Coupon Catcher for WooCommerce now supports automatic updates.

On top of that, AJdG PayPal Surcharge has been tested in WooCommerce 10.1.0 and WordPress 6.8.2.

What is Coupon Catcher?

Coupons through WooCommerce have to be applied manually by the user. If you run a lot of promotions or just want to be the coolest webshop on the internet by auto-applying coupons, you need Coupon Catcher for WooCommerce.

Create simple links that you can use in newsletters, or just share anywhere you like, and your chosen coupon code is automatically applied to the users cart.

Grab your copy here

Coupon Catcher 1.1

  • Added – Automatic Updates
  • Added – WooCommerce dependency
  • Update – AJdG Update API library 2.1
  • Update – Action links
  • Tested – WooCommerce 10.1.0

AdRotate Pro 5.15.3 – Updated updated library for better updates

Based on user feedback the sessions AdRotate Pro populates with Geo Data and Advert IDs are now better detected and checked. This should prevent incidental issues with the features associated with it.

Also a potential flaw where updates would be available but not being able to update with a valid license has been fixed. The update would be offered, but no download to do so. This has been improved and some checks and restrictions altered on the server side. The license api in the plugin has been updated accordingly.

Changes in AdRotate Professional 5.15.3

  • [tweak] Better check if a session exists and has geo data
  • [tweak] Better check if a session exists and has duplicate advert ids
  • [tweak] Removed unused CSS and JS
  • [update] Now uses License API v1.7

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 Geo for AdRotate Pro updated

AdRotate Geo Service just a new database. Up-to-date everything. New IP ranges, improved accuracy and all the latest Geo information you’ll need to get your adverts to the right audience. Periodic updates of AdRotate Geo are necessary to keep things accurate and fast.

Accuracy

AdRotate Geo almost never uses the latest data, so over time the accuracy erodes a bit. 2 or 3 times a year the database gets refreshed with the latest data which fixes that. As you may know AdRotate Geo uses MaxMinds GeoLITE2 databases. Which are pretty good. They’re also pretty big. So updating them is a bit of a hassle. Anyway, as of today they are up-to-date again.

New data should trickle in as your caches and session data expires over the next few days. You can expect to see an improvement in accuracy within a few days.

What is AdRotate Geo

If you use AdRotate Pro you probably know what AdRotate Geo is. This is my self-hosted, or custom built, geo targeting service. Not everyone wants to or can afford external geo targeting services. So I’ve made my own. This is super useful if you want to target certain areas in the world like a city, state or country with your adverts.

Access to AdRotate Geo is included with your license for AdRotate Pro and you can easily enable it from your dashboard through Settings > Geo Targeting.

Geo Targeting is a useful tool for targeted adverts. If you’re selling or promoting something to people living in New York. It usually makes no sense to show that advert to someone in Tokyo. So to fix that you use Geo Targeting. Likewise if you have a product that applies to Spanish speaking people. Other languages probably don’t need to see that. So you can use Geo Targeting to target Spanish speaking countries.

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