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AdRotate Pro 5.22 – Many tweaks and improvements

AdRotate Pro version 5.22 fixes and improves a number of things, including the sorting or tables. Which should now reliably work for dates. IP Address detection is vastly improved and made smarter by looking at extra, more modern, headers. Enhancing AdRotate Pro’s ability to spot proxy and redirect servers. This helps with more accurate Geo Targeting.

Version 5.22 also improves compatibility with the new AJdG API. Making it faster and more lightweight for even quicker response times for Geo Targeting, License management and Update notifications. These are iterative updates to the server that are made available too all plugins using it.

For AdRotate Pro’s dashboard, a number of cleanup actions have been done, improving bits of code here-and-there. Removing the not-so-popular dashboard banners and rewording menus, blocks and descriptions in a bunch of locations as well as small dashboard tweaks and improvements to make the plugin more usable in general.

I’ve also gone through all translations and removed all incorrect and outdated translations from all languages except Dutch – I know Dutch, so the faulty stuff in there has been updated to current wording.
If you’re up for completing the other translations, let me know through the contact form and we’ll work on that. This includes the Spanish, German, French and Italian translations for example. I can’t find affordable, good, software to make those myself anymore.

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 5.22

  • New – Option to auto-disable expired adverts
  • update – Start and end dates for ads now separate columns in the various dashboards
  • update – Improved compatibility with AJdG API
  • update – Improved IP Address detection
  • update – License activation now stores license creation date
  • update – Simplified de-activation code
  • update – Simplified uninstall code
  • update – Set sslverify to true for AdRotate Geo lookups
  • removed – Server response indicator from Maintenance dashboard
  • removed – Birthday banner
  • removed – Review banner
  • removed – Multisite dashboard
  • removed – Cross-site ads support
  • i18n – Updated Dutch translation
  • i18n – Deleted wrongly translated strings from translations

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 5.12.10 – Maintenance update

A small update ensuring compatibility with AdRotate Pro and updates to the dashboard regarding pricing information, notification wording and some other visual tweaks.

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, Amazon 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 version 5.12.10

  • [i18n] Translations updated
  • [change] Dashboards and pricing updated
  • [change] Database upgrade for AdRotate Pro compatibility

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 5.15 – Re-added table sorting

This update changes a number of things in the background and fixes a 6 bugs.

Sortable tables

Due to popular demand Sorting tables has been re-added. The intent with the removal was to replace it with a better way of sorting tables/data. Turns out no such method exists and alternatives for manual sorting didn’t work as expected. Checkin with several users who were perfectly happy with the basic sorting provided before it seems no changes were needed at all. Sorting tables has been re-added as an AdRotate Pro-only feature.

Widgets

Several years ago new widgets got added to AdRotate Pro with the intent to replace the old ones. They have been marked as such since 2020. These older widgets have been removed in version 5.15. If you were still using the depreciated widgets they’ll have dissapeared from your website. Please use the new widgets instead.

Along with that, the Obsolete Network widget has been removed. With the recent changes to how Network ads work the widget wasn’t needed anymore as the regular group widget can now do the same and better. Also here, if you were using this widget, replace it with a regular group widget and a group configured for Network use.

Translations

All included translations have been updated using Bing Auto-translator. All strings added in the last year have been translated and old strings removed. As always, if you find any quirks or stupid translations – Let me know with some examples and which lines exactly. I don’t speak these languages so please explain what the issue is so I understand what to change.

Changes in AdRotate Professional 5.15

  • [update] Added sortable tables back in
  • [update] Network dashboard descriptions and labels
  • [update] Enabled/disabled icons now based on generated svg
  • [update] Device icons now based on generated svg
  • [fix] Error when there are no ads while the plugin is network activated
  • [fix] strlen on null error when no advertiser is set for certain adverts
  • [fix] debug output above advertiser selection
  • [fix] Incorrect advertiser settings in Manage Advertiser
  • [fix] Missing variable in advert dropdown in advertiser contact form
  • [fix] AdRotate Geo array error when a license error occurs
  • [i18n] All translations updated with an auto-translator
  • [removed] Outdated Network Widget (retired in 2023)
  • [removed] Obsolete Single Advert Widget (retired in 2020)
  • [removed] Obsolete Group Widget (retired in 2020)
  • [removed] Obsolete Universal tracker support for Google Analytics
  • [removed] Conflicting ‘Site Dashboard’ option in Network 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.

AdRotate Pro 5.8.23 for WordPress – Maintenance release

AdRotate Pro header

A few small tweaks and improvements to fine-tune and improve AdRotate Professional for you even further. The Premium support pages has been update to reflect current support options. A few dashboard tweaks and all translations have been updated.

Translations

AdRotate Pro includes several translations, including Spanish, French, Italian, and German. These translations while useful are generated with some machine learning system from Microsoft. I of-course don’t speak any of these languages aside from a little Spanish. So if you find any errors with the grammars or outright wrong lines, let me know and I’ll update the translation.

In this update all recently updated lines are added and updated where nessesary. Let me know if you find any quirks.

Blocks

AdRotate Pro now has support for blocks for WordPress its’ Gutenberg editor. Are you using them yet? What do you think? Let me know in the comments below or on the forum! Two blocks are available, one for groups and one for single adverts that you can use in posts and pages as well as widget replacements. In the block editor simply search for ‘AdRotate’, ‘Banner’ or some other relevant keywords and you’ll find the blocks easily.

If you find any quirks with the blocks let me know in the comments below or through your contact form in your dashboard. Thanks! Of-course AdRotate Pro with blocks is still compatible with ClassicPress as well.

Update regularly!

Staying up-to-date with plugins is important and is almost never a bad thing. Updates are important for your website security. But more often updates also add new or improve features as well. Updates are available via your dashboard and require no special knowledge to install, this makes it extremely easy to keep your site secure and have the latest features.

Changes in AdRotate Professional 5.8.23

  • [fix] Advert generator dropdown now looks in subfolders for images
  • [fix] Auto not working for the size in advert groups
  • [update] Premium Support form
  • [update] Removed unused ‘Save options’ button from maintenance page
  • [i18n] Updated all included translations

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