Ads Everywhere

[All Astronauts]

 

[403 - Forbiddeen]

Hello @All Astronauts, Work with blogs, tutorials and downloads? i want to add ads between content. 

[All Astronauts]

Anything everywhere. 

The after x posts and topics is just built in for convenience for all the forums users but you can duplicate that stuff in blogs,  etc., with the simple css options. 

Just give a yell here after installation if you address having problems with css targeting

[403 - Forbiddeen]

18 hours ago, All Astronauts said:

Anything everywhere. 

The after x posts and topics is just built in for convenience for all the forums users but you can duplicate that stuff in blogs,  etc., with the simple css options. 

Just give a yell here after installation if you address having problems with css targeting

Great, i already install on my site. GGames.com.br - Which access did you want?

[403 - Forbiddeen]

Work fine the rules for topics... but allow this function to downloads, tutorials and blogs. It's not showing the ads between this content.

[All Astronauts]

Like I said, you'll need to use the Simple CSS targeting for those. Where are you wanting the ads? After certain comments somewhere?

[403 - Forbiddeen]

2 hours ago, All Astronauts said:

Like I said, you'll need to use the Simple CSS targeting for those. Where are you wanting the ads? After certain comments somewhere?

Inside the posts. You rules for css work perfect, but will work better if i can't set how much ads will display.

Example for Downloads - after 5 downloads line, show the ads. Like work for topic link (i set which line will show).

 

I want this for Paragraph too... after 4 <p> display one ADS, because i have a large topics.

[403 - Forbiddeen]

On 11/22/2022 at 11:41 AM, All Astronauts said:

Like I said, you'll need to use the Simple CSS targeting for those. Where are you wanting the ads? After certain comments somewhere?

Did you read my suggestion? Allow the function about how much times will repeat (or set each line, like the post between post and topics).

[All Astronauts]

You can literally do this with Simple CSS and correct targeting. Using nths should do it. You can also separate the css targets by commas and enter more than one. Slightly occupied right now but give me a bit and I can give you an example for downloads. I'll probably just a bunch of examples actually. If you don't want to wait, look at the support topics for ads after posts and ads after topics. The css targeting is all the same.

Edited November 24, 2022 by All Astronauts

[Dll]

This is great, but what could make it even better for us would be a way to do the same with custom blocks, or to be able to use custom blocks within ads, as we want to be able to run some php logic in them. 

[All Astronauts]

Can you give me a more explicit example?

[Dll]

At the moment, we create blocks for some ad units, so we can use php to check cookies etc, but you can't use things like {block="my_block_key"} in the advertisements at the moment. So, we end up placing them manually into the templates. 

So, if it were possible to use those inside ads, and place them using your app it would be very useful for us. 

[403 - Forbiddeen]

16 hours ago, All Astronauts said:

You can literally do this with Simple CSS and correct targeting. Using nths should do it. You can also separate the css targets by commas and enter more than one. Slightly occupied right now but give me a bit and I can give you an example for downloads. I'll probably just a bunch of examples actually. If you don't want to wait, look at the support topics for ads after posts and ads after topics. The css targeting is all the same.

My suggestion it's allow a limit to display like topic and posts. I already have a lot of topics and content, i don't want to edit those content to create a rules with css... i hope you understand my sugestion. If you give the hability to limit the display inside any css... you will turn your plugin perfect. Work fine with default function... but inside the content will give me much more money.

[All Astronauts]

On 11/24/2022 at 4:28 PM, Dll said:

be able to use custom blocks within ads, as we want to be able to run some php logic in them

Next release, probably before Xmas - I mean, probably much sooner, but it's good to hedge. It's already running locally but fit and finish matters. I am also getting around to some of the drudge work, handling some of the errors that pop up when people hold this app wrong.

[All Astronauts]

2.0.0 Submitted (available when approved)

• Every HTML ad is now parsed for IPS template logic, output plugins, and blocks.
• Hardened one or two methods for undefined array indexes and the like.

Yes - that means ALL html ads. It was easier to just parse all of them by default.  So, you can now use your Invision Community Pages blocks in ads, use template logic directly if you want:

{{if whatever}}This thing{{else}}A different thing{{endif}}

...and you can also use the template output plugins such as {member="name"} and so on as found here:

Though maybe don't use the {advertisement=""} one inside the advertisement itself? I'm not supporting your crashed site after you start making weird recursive calls.

[The Box Office Theory]

Love this plugin! Quick question, though: are there any known issues with ads showing to member groups they aren't supposed to?

I just installed this a couple of weeks ago and we hit a very busy traffic period over the weekend with a handful of users reporting they could see ads. I confirmed their groups were not listed in the plugin settings as being ad-exposed.

[All Astronauts]

Shouldn't.  The ads are still loaded entirely via the IPS methods. All the permission checks and such,  all IPS.

[The Box Office Theory]

On 12/21/2022 at 3:56 PM, All Astronauts said:

Shouldn't.  The ads are still loaded entirely via the IPS methods. All the permission checks and such,  all IPS.

Interesting... I have no idea what could be causing it, unless the high volume of traffic just made it hard for the plug-in to sort who is who at random times?

[TK1990]

Hi there,

 

we unfortunately have a problem with your Plugin and our theme. We're using the Dimensions theme from ipsfocus. When I activate your plugin it shows the errors you see in the attached files. The error comes from our design, apparently the app segregates something from the JS code of our design, which then leads to the incorrect display and function.

 

Can you please provide support? Otherwise I can not use your app. Thank you!

 

 

[All Astronauts]

@TK1990 Not sure where the hitch is as there is nothing identifiable in those messages back to this. PM me an ACP account so I can pop in and take a look.

[TK1990]

Sorry, can't give you access to the ACP. I will send you our theme, tho. It should help with problem solving. Keep in mind it's for testing purposes only, as we hold the rights of use.

P.S. Just tested again, if I choose the default template as a guest the error does not occur.

Edited February 10, 2023 by TK1990

[BradTBP]

On 12/17/2022 at 1:51 PM, All Astronauts said:

2.0.0 Submitted (available when approved)

• Every HTML ad is now parsed for IPS template logic, output plugins, and blocks.
• Hardened one or two methods for undefined array indexes and the like.

Yes - that means ALL html ads. It was easier to just parse all of them by default.  So, you can now use your Invision Community Pages blocks in ads, use template logic directly if you want:

{{if whatever}}This thing{{else}}A different thing{{endif}}

...and you can also use the template output plugins such as {member="name"} and so on as found here:

Though maybe don't use the {advertisement=""} one inside the advertisement itself? I'm not supporting your crashed site after you start making weird recursive calls.

 

Hi, I'm looking for an ads solution, has this update been approved?  Thank you.

[All Astronauts]

You can use it as is just fine. If you HAVE to have the template parsing for random template logic and the like I'll... have to revert some code and then push the 2.0 again

See, they rejected that 2.0 update saying that the parsing of output (server-side) I do was "too heavy", at least they "thought/think" it was...

Thing is, that output parsing was already released in a previous version - the one available now if you purchase - and its not really affecting anything really - currently running on one fairly heavily trafficked site with no impact. Oh, I can see how it might impact things but its really not much different than what they do with emojis. So, when that rejection came I just thought I'd let things lay as it were and get around to "fixing" the update eventually.

That said, the initial release of Ads Everywhere had everything inserted via Javascript post-output. Which is what they want now. Which is fine, I just have to revert a bunch of changes (pita but no biggie) and tweak some other things.

If I go back to making all the ad inserts post-page load, there are some ad providers that can't handle that (Monumetric for one): they see an ad pop up in the DOM, they run the ad, and their code stops - it's not DOM-aware enough for another ad being inserted (or more) - hence why I did the output parsing in the first place so the ads were in the document on output and the ad network JS code would fire on all of them. Neat and tidy, no mess, no fuss.

When I do push the reverted all-JS version of 2.0, this means to accomplish this, I gotta tell everyone that the ad network JS code they typical stick in the header - they will probably need to specifically use my Ads Everywhere header block now for that code (leaning towards MUST). Because in order for the Monumetric (others..) ad networks to work in the revised version is for me to JS insert all the ads into the document and then LASTLY insert the core header JS ad network stuff so that it fires off on all the ads.

tldr; Unless you need to parse things like member variables and custom Pages blocks and stuff like that, go ahead and buy now and have fun. Otherwise, my skies will be "clearer-ish" in like two weeks or so to swing back to get this patched up. 

[Kjell Iver Johansen]

Hello - just bought and it seems to be working well. Was not aware of the problem with Dimension - we use the same theme. Mostly I use this app for displaying ads between posts and so far no problems.

Is it possible to have ads in activitystreems? How is that done?

[All Astronauts]

Just use the simple css method in Ads Everywhere. I just woke up,  Let me gullet some coffee and I'll give you some basic targeting to use here