Before you can put your advert into a widget, you have to make all the configuration in the Posts > Banner Admin menu. After you have put all the parameters needed, you can choose where to put the ad, into a own <div> or into a widget.

After you have chosen widget and saved the configuration you can go to the Appearance > Widgets menu where you can place the banner widget the usual way. No further options are needed.

To place the banner into a widget you have to choose the widget option at Position in banner admin menu. If divTag is elected, the banner position is to define as described in this post.

Please keep in mind, that if you put an advertisement into a widget, that you have to check that the banner have a corresponding dimension. If not, you may destroy your theme layout. You can adjust the banner to your theme by changing the styles in /styles/default.css.

The install process also is improved. Only unpack the plugin into the plugin directory and activate it, done. To make an update, deactivate the old version first.

After an update you may change the Position option in the admin menu. The default option is divTag, so after an update everything may work as designed

Download it here.

To put the banner to the postion wanted you need a correct css-theme and an
actual wp-version !

Keep in mind that the banner-div is placed as first child of a parent element.

A parent element can be a tagname e.g. “body”, a classname or an element id.
If you call InsertElement in banner.php you have to edit the first two parameters.
With the first parameter you define the tag-id. This could be “tag” for a tag element
“class” for a class element “id” for an element id.

The second parameter defines the element name.

E.g. if you want to place the banner div after the body tag element you have
to call InsertElement(‘tag’,'body’,'banner’)

if you want to place the banner div between the latest and the penultimate
post you can use InserElement like this:

InsertElement(‘id’,'post-1′,’banner’)

Supposed there is a post-2 element as latest post.

You have to consinder that if you want to place the banner like this, you do a layout manipulation !
That means you have to take care of the banner and/or the wp-theme layout css !!
The wp-banner style-sheet is found in “styles” folder.

You can download the new version here

Since I was using WordPress for my site I was looking for a banner administration tool, which fits my needs. Searching the web at the appropriate sites (i.e. wp-plugins.org | net) I didn’t found what I’m looking for.
But I remembered that the e107 cms had a good banner administration tool, which I’m still using on my site bilderbuchreisen.de. So I decided to adapt this tool to WordPress.

Very important for me is that I can manage banners from different affiliate programs. This programs normaly are counting the hits and views directly so that they offers you two URLs one for the banner it self and one URL for the clicks. The original e107 tool doesn’t support this feature and in addition it has some features more that I didn’t need, so I had to rewrite the complete code.

Ok, if your are curious now. You can download it here