You can use this addon not only for extended visualization of ads, you can use it also as simple messaging system.

Features

• Peelback corner ad (javascript)
• Background ads
• FlyIn ads
• Popup ad
• The ability to triggering of fly-in ads by scroll events
• The ability to customize the appearance of ad dialog boxes
• The ability to customize positions of fly-in ads dialog boxes
• Several animation effects of triggering ad dialog boxes

System Requirements

• PHP 5.3+
• WordPress 4.1+
• SAM Pro (Free or Lite) 1.9.9+

Documentation

More info about this addon you can find on the addon page…

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Plugin SAM Pro (Free Edition) – is a completely redesigned plugin Simple Ads Manager, in a sense, it is modern reincarnation of Simple Ads Manager. During the developing plugin has been changed the kernel of plugin, changed the administrative interface of the plugin to a more comfortable and modern, changed the basic functions for a more reliable and stable operation, all modern requirements of security and stability to prevent hacker attacks have been met. The old version of the plugin (Simple Ads Manager) has been left in the repository WordPress for the simple reason that there are a lot of users using servers running PHP 5.2.

Consider the pros and cons of both plug-ins to each other.

Simple Ads Manager

Pros

1. The intersecting sets of prohibitions and permissions. In practice, this means that, for example, if you allow the display of ads in the articles belonging to a set of some categories, you can prohibit displaying the same ad in another set of categories and if in some article these sets will intersect (article belongs to one or more of the categories from the black and white list), then the rule will trigger the ban. This can seriously improve the flexibility of the display logic, although it is used infrequently. In SAM Pro this option is not available, you can either enable or deny it. Why? Because everything has a price. Ceteris paribus, a request for the current ads in the SAM Pro runs twice faster than in the Simple Ads Manager.

Alas! This is the only plus of the Simple Ads Manager plugin.

Cons

1. Outdated management interface. Every action of site admin acts by reloading current page. It is very annoying me — I have no extra time.
2. Security. Alas, this is a weak point of the Simple Ads Manager plugin. And if the administration pages are more or less in order, on the client side critical data passed to an AJAX request is encrypted public key, it can provide access to this data for scammers for using SQL-injection attacks. Of course it’s not as scary, but theoretically it is possible.
3. Non-optimized statistics. Simple Ads Manager plugin stores statistics unoptimized, i.e. for each event has a record in a database table. As a result, we have the uncontrolled growth of the volume of data in a table, which can lead to sad consequences – data space on HD is not a rubber and has a finite volume available for data storage.
4. Unsuccessful structure of stored data. All ads are tightly bound to the object “Ads Place” and are part of the structure of the Ads Place, which does not allow reuse of promotional ads in other Places.

There are other less serious disadvantages, but most important I listed above.

SAM Pro (Free Edition)

Pros

1. Modern management interface. Almost all actions of the administrator are executed using AJAX requests, which saves a lot of time.
2. Security. Most sensitive data transmitted through AJAX encrypted using private key. Unique key for each site is created when you first install the plugin. This seriously reduces the vulnerability of plugin before hacker attacks.
3. Statistical data. Statistics are stored in optimized form, which saves disk space and allows you to extend the range of storing statistics.
4. Reuse of ads. Ads exist separately as independent objects. This allows you to connect and use the ads with any number of advertising spots (Places).
5. Optimized queries. The ability to use only those rules (prohibitions and permits) that needed on this site allows you to optimize the length of queries, which significantly increases the performance of the plugin.
6. Addon API. Addon API allows you to extend the functionality of the plugin SAM Pro (Free Edition) using addons (extensions). Anyone can develop an addons. Official addons are available on the website of the plugin.

There are other minor pros.

Cons

1. The impossibility of using intersecting prohibitions and permits. See Pros of the Simple Ads Manager plugin.

Currently the plugin Simple Ads Manager is locked in the WordPress plugin repository because of mismatch to new rules of security for WordPress plugins. Frankly, I don’t want to lose my time for revision of outdated plugin. Try to convince me. Commenting is encouraged.

You can download the latest version of the plugin Simple Ads Manager from GitHub and use it at your own risk.

P.S.

According to fellow developers, the main drawback of both plugins is too many opportunities for the free version. Maybe we should cut back functionality of these plugins?

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Basically, the addon is designed for use with the SAM Pro (Free Edition) plugin, as it adds to this plugin is not only an opportunity to display ads in the form of a slider, and the ability to ad rotation by timer (this feature is built into the SAM Pro Lite plugin). For the both plugins this addon also adds the ability to configure the parameters of the slider.

Example output using addon Ad Slider you can see in the beginning of this article.

Features

• Possibility of rotating ads by timer (SAM Pro Free Edition)
• Possibility of rotating ads as slider
• Two sliding effects: horizontal and fade
• Possibility of adjusting parameters of slider
• Possibility of sliding any type of ads
• Responsive
• Ready for localizing

System Requirements

• PHP 5.3+
• WordPress 4.1+
• SAM Pro (Free or Lite) 1.9+

Documentation

More info about this addon you can find on the addon page…

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Features

• Three-level geo targeting (country, region, city)
• Data connection with MaxMind (MaxMind GeoIP Legacy or MaxMind GeoIP2 Precision) and DB-IP online services
• Data connection with MaxMind GeoIP2 DB or GeoLite2 DB located on your server
• Tool for creating necessary data
• Easy-to-use interface

System Requirements

• PHP 5.3+
• WordPress 4.1+
• SAM Pro (Free Edition) 1.6.3+

Documentation

More info about addon “Geo Targeting” you can find on the addon page…

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Features

• Advertising Request Form
• Advertiser Statistics Page, individual for each advertiser
• Notification about approval of ad for advertiser via email
• Notification about Advertising Request for admin via email

System Requirements

• PHP 5.3+
• WordPress 4.1+
• SAM Pro (Free Edition) 1.6.3+

Documentation

More info about “Advertising Request” you can find on the addon page…

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