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AdRotate 5.17.1 – Probably the last update of the year

AdRotate Banner Manager 5.17.1 includes a few changes and tweaks for previous updates and is meant to round off the year. A inconsistent check for the banners folder has been fixed along with WordPress updating SimplePie to a version that for some reason can now only read 1 feed at a time. This has been addressed. Then with the renewed dashboards a lot of the translation strings changed, old ones have been removed in this update.

If you natively speak a language included with AdRotate Banner Manager, or want to add a whole new language. Feel free to update or create it. I don’t speak many languages, so even existing translations need some fixups from people who do from time to time.

Please report problems

Thanks to useful user feedback all recent bugs have been quickly addressed and received fixes within days. You can help out too! If you see that something isn’t right with the plugin, even stupid things like typos. Please report them. AdRotate has a support forum on wordpress.org for that. But if you feel the issue is important enough you can always email me with your question or concern.

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 5.17.1

  • Fix – Better check if banners folder exist
  • Change – Internal RSS feed fetcher for one url at a time
  • i18n – Removed all outdated translations strings

Download

The update is available for WordPress and Classicpress. Please update AdRotate today, available through automatic updates in your dashboard, via direct download through this website and Github. If you do not have AdRotate or AdRotate Professional yet, get started with ads today through the product pages below.

AdRotate 5.17 – Bugfixes and dashboard updates

AdRotate Banner Manager 5.17 is the second in a few updates to overhaul the dashboard. In this release the new dashboard introduced a few versions ago gets a few more tweaks and some of the styles and related code gets refinements so it works even better. Dashboard buttons and switches are now better aligned and all of the blocks/widgets in the dashboard are now in a responsive grid. This should massively improve the usability of AdRotate Banner Manager on mobile devices.

In conjunction with AdRotate Pro this version also improves the export capabilities for ads. For AdRotate Banner Manager this mostly means the Portability Hash works better. The hash is better formed and includes more settings from ads, along with better checks for missing or incorrect data.

Please report problems

Thanks to useful user feedback all recent bugs have been quickly addressed and received fixes for within days, sometimes even hours. You can help out too! If you see that something isn’t right with the plugin, even stupid things like typo’s. Please report them. AdRotate has a support forum on wordpress.org for that. But if you feel the issue is important enough you can always email me with your question or concern.

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 5.17

  • Update – Dashboard now works better on smaller devices (responsive)
  • Update – Improved portability hash generation
  • Update – All dashboard settings pages fine-tuned
  • Update – Support and AdRotate Pro dashboard pages refreshed
  • Update – Removed unused CSS from dashboard.css
  • Fix – Removed remaining multisite code causing warnings/errors for some people
  • Fix – Removed unused licensing code from the support form

Download

The update is available for WordPress and Classicpress. Please update AdRotate today, available through automatic updates in your dashboard, via direct download through this website and Github. If you do not have AdRotate or AdRotate Professional yet, get started with ads today through the product pages below.

AdRotate 5.16 – Dashboard overhaul

AdRotate Banner Manager 5.16 is the first in a few upcoming updates to overhaul the dashboard. It struck me that in the last 15 or so years the dashboard has remained pretty much unchanged. While that is fine, stable and predictable, a bit of updating isn’t back.

So to start for all settings pages the look has been updated to include backgrounds, rounded corners and the ‘ugly’ banner at the bottom of each page has moved to a sidebar in settings. I’ve also re-added the RSS feeds so people can actually see blog updates – Including this post – if they want to.

I’m not entirely sure what to do with the management dashboards, but they’ll likely see some updates in the coming few updates as well. Clear your browser cache if the new dashboards look misaligned or like they’re missing bits and pieces.

Another thing brought to my attention were some inefficient queries for stats. These have been fixed and updated as well. On average, on my tiny test site, these queries are now at least twice as fast. And in searching for other queries to improve I found a few typos and quirks that have been fixed as well.

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 has a support forum on wordpress.org for that. But if you feel the issue is important enough you can always email me with your question or concern.

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 5.16

  • Performance – Faster queries for loading certain stats
  • Performance – Added faster INDEX for stats and stats_archive tables
  • Change – Database version 75
  • Change – Moved action links to plugin meta text
  • Fix – Widget title no longer converts to a slug
  • Update – All dashboard settings pages refreshed
  • Update – Support dashboard page refreshed
  • Update – Notification texts and footer banner
  • Update – Block code

Download

The update is available for WordPress and Classicpress. Please update AdRotate today, available through automatic updates in your dashboard, via direct download through this website and Github. If you do not have AdRotate or AdRotate Professional yet, get your started with ads today through the product pages below.

Analytics Spam Blocker 4.1 – Updated dashboard and translations

Analytics Spam Blocker improves the dashboard with updated text, translation strings and new action links. This is a small update to ensure the plugin works well with modern WordPress.

Changes for Analytics Spam Blocker version 4.1

  • fix – Translation domain not defined correctly
  • change – Dashboard tweaks
  • update – Action links
  • i18n – Added missing translation strings

The download for Analytics Spam Blocker should pop up in your dashboard shortly. Or you can download the plugin here: https://ajdg.solutions/product/analytics-spam-blocker-for-wordpress/

Matomo Tracker 1.3.1 – Updated dashboard

Matomo Tracker by Arnan de Gans

This update updates the dashboard for Matomo Tracker to be more in line with other plugins. The way translatuons work has been updated to work with modern WordPress.

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 1.3 & 1.3.1

  • fix – Translation domain not defined correctly
  • change – Dashboard tweaks
  • update – Action links
  • i18n – Added missing translation strings

The download for Matomo Tracker should show up in your dashboard. Or you can download the plugin for free here: https://ajdg.solutions/product/matomo-tracker/.