Ad Management Plug-Ins And Tutorials For Wordpress << UC Theme

Dozens of ad and affiliate networks exist, and you have different ad formats to consider. Should you sell text ads or banner ads? Should you allow Flash ads? What about ads with sound, pop-ups or floating ads? People have so many decisions to make that they often just end up slapping on some AdSense code and calling it a day. And that’s fine.

But you have a ton of other options for displaying ads on your website, from using other ad networks to selling and managing banner ads yourself. There are plug-ins for virtually every CMS and blogging platform out there that allow you to rotate banner ads or insert blocks of ad code.

This post is a collection of ad management plug-ins for WordPress, Movable Type, Drupal and Joomla! to get your started. At the end are a few tutorials for creating your own banner ad rotation scripts in PHP and ASP (so that even if a plug-in is not available for your CMS of choice, you’ll likely be able to build your own).

1. Plug-Ins For WordPress

Who Sees Ads? (http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-plugin-who-sees-ads-control-adsense-display/)

Control which visitors see ads on your website, based on where they came from, whether they’re logged in, how old the post is and more.

(http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-plugin-who-sees-ads-control-adsense-display/)

AdRotate (http://meandmymac.net/plugins/adrotate/)

A simple tool that lets you manage banner ads (even for multiple sizes and different placement) on your website.

(http://meandmymac.net/plugins/adrotate/)

Ads For Old Posts (http://johnhawkinsunrated.com/wordpress-plugins)

This plug-in automatically inserts an ad block in your posts once they’re past a certain age.

OIO Publisher (http://www.oiopublisher.com/)

An ad manager that focuses on maximising your revenue, saving you time, and keeping you in complete control of your ad space. The php-script can be used to sell and serve ads and it is also available as a ready-to-be-used WordPress plugin.

OpenX Manager (http://drupal.org/project/openx_manager)

Lets you integrate the open-source ad server OpenX, along with the ability to import data from an existing OpenX server.

(http://drupal.org/project/openx_manager)

WP125 (http://www.webmaster-source.com/wp125-ad-plugin-wordpress/)

Manage 125×125 pixel ads without having to edit your template or keep track of when advertisements need to be removed.

Advertising Manager (http://code.openx.org/projects/show/advertising-manager)

A plug-in to manage Google AdSense or other ad network ads.

Twitter Brand Sponsors (http://mashable.com/sociableads/twitterbrandsponsors/)

Allows up to 10 different brands to syndicate their most recent tweets on your blog’s sidebar.

(http://mashable.com/sociableads/twitterbrandsponsors/)

All in One AdSense and YPN (http://www.linewbie.com/wordpress-plugins/all-in-one-adsense-and-ypn)

A plug-in to integrate AdSense and Yahoo! Publisher Network ads into your blog.

WordPress Classifieds Plug-In (http://www.forgani.com/tools/wpclassified-plugins/)

Another plug-in to create a classifieds section on your blog.

OmniAds – WordPress Ads Plug-In (http://www.naden.de/blog/omniads#english)

An ad plug-in that allows you to post HTML or PHP units within your code.

(http://www.naden.de/blog/omniads#english)

Post Layout WordPress Plug-In (http://www.satollo.com/english/wordpress/post-layout)

A plug-in to let you control where your AdSense ads appear within a post.

Feed Layout (http://www.satollo.com/english/wordpress/feed-layout)

Add advertisements or other items into your RSS feed.

Smart Ads WordPress Plug-In (http://www.johnkolbert.com/portfolio/wp-plugins/smart-ads/)

A plug-in to automatically insert ads at the beginning and/or end of each post, depending on the post’s length, age or category or the blog member’s status.

Another WordPress Classifieds Plug-In (http://www.awpcp.com)

An easy-to-use plug-in for creating a classifieds ad page on your blog.

(http://www.awpcp.com/)