Plugin / Ads EZ

Manoj Thulasidas
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

The easiest way to install this plugin is to use the WordPress Admin interface. Go to your admin dashboard, find the “Plugins” menu, and click on “Add New”. Find this plugin and click on “Install Now” and follow the WordPress instructions. If you want to download it and manually install, you can again use the WordPress dashboard interface. First download the plugin zip file to your local computer. Then go to your admin dashboard, find the “Plugins” menu, and click on “Add New”. After clicking on the “Add New” menu item as above, click on “Upload” (below the title “Install Plugins” near the top). Browse for your downloaded zip file, upload it and activate the plugin. Further updates (and Pro upgrades and module installations) to the plugin can be done easily from the plugin admin page itself, by clicking on the Updates button on the top right corner. Standalone Mode Upload the contents of the archive ads-ez to your server. Browse to the admin location of your uploaded the package (http://yourserver/ads-ez/admin, for example) using your web browser. Enter the DB details and set up and Admin account in a couple of minutes and you are done with the installation! Note that in the second step, your web server will try to create a configuration file where you uploaded the ads-ez package. If it cannot do that because of permission issues, you will have to create an empty file dbCfg.php and make it writeable. Don’t worry, the setup will prompt you for it with detailed instructions. To get started with Ad Serving Upload your banners to the banners folder on your server and hit the Batch Process menu item to provide banner data. Get the invocation codes and place them on your websites to start serving ads. Take a tour to learn the program features.
I looked around for a light-weight ad serving solution for my own requirements, and could not find any. So I wrote one myself, as an exercise to learn bootstrap and other fancy modern web technology. I think you will like the result.
Well, I did, which is why I wrote this package. OpenX is a large application, and consequently quite demanding both in terms of the effort needed to maintain it, and on system resources. It may not be appropriate for small scale, personal ad serving, which needs to be simple and quick. If you have only a couple of hunded banners and don’t plan on charging for your ads, Ads EZ may be the right solution for you. Having said that, I will develop a paid advertising module for Ads EZ if there is enough demand for it.
This plugin admin interface is designed with a loosely coupled architecture, which means it interacts with the WordPress core only for certain essential services (login check, plugin activation status, database access etc). Loosely coupled systems tend to be more robust and flexible than tightly integrated ones because they make fewer assumptions about each other. My plugin admin pages are fairly independent, and do not pollute the global scope or leak the style directives or JavaScript functions. In order to achieve this, they are loaded in iFrames within the WordPress admin interface. Your web server needs direct access to the plugin files to load anything in an iFrame. Some aggressive security settings block this kind of access, usually through an .htaccess file in your wp-content or plugins folders, which is why this plugin gives a corresponding error message if it detects inability to access the files (checked through a file_get_contents call on a plugin file URL). But some systems implement further blocks specifically on file_get_contents or on iFrames with specific styles (using mod_securty rules, for instance), which is why the plugin provides a means to override this auto-detection and force the admin page.
Note that it is only your own webserver that needs direct access to the PHP files. The reason for preventing such access is that a hacker might be able to upload a malicious PHP (or other executable script) to your web host, which your webserver will run if asked to. Such a concern is valid only on systems where you explicitly permit unchecked file uploads. For instance, if anyone can upload any file to your media folder, and your media folder is not protected against direct access and script execution, you have given the potential hacker an attack vector. In this plugin, its media/banner upload folder has a multiple layers protection: 1. Only users logged in as admin can ever see the upload interface. 2. The upload script accepts only media file types. 3. The backend AJAX handler also checks for safe file types. 4. The media storage locations are protected against script execution. So allowing your webserver to serve the plugin admin files in an iFrame is completely safe, in my judgement.

Ratings

3
2 reviews

Rating breakdown

Details Information

Version

3.20

First Released

06 Mar, 2015

Total Downloads

4,756

Wordpress Version

4.0 or higher

Tested up to:

4.8.11

Require PHP Version:

-

Tags

Ad Server ads advertising income openx

Contributors

manojtd

Languages

The plugin hasn't been transalated in any language other than English.

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