The PWS WP Ad Manager Plugin

by Tony Lee / Privateer Web Solutions

License:

Provided you have purchased a copy of this plugin from me, you have the right to use this plugin onany and all web sites run by you, whether they be clients web sites or your own. You can sell web sitesthat you create and use it on. The main thing that you have no right to do is to sell copies of this plugin,give copies of it away, and/or present it as something that you have created.

Limitations:

If you use this plugin on clients web sites without their buying copies and/or use it on web sites thatyou resell without removing the plugin, those who buy sites from you or have them maintained by youwill not get support or updates from me. Nor will they have access to the owners forum. If they want to be able to get updates directly from me and/or have access to the owners forum and new versions of this plugin they should buy their own copy.

Thank you!

I hope that you find good value for your money in this plugin. There is a lot that it can do, provided onetakes the time to set things up properly. Without your support, this project would not continue toimprove.If you are using this plugin and have not picked up a copy, please consider doing so.

Table of Contents

Introduction:...............................................................................................................................................1Installation:.................................................................................................................................................1Configuration:............................................................................................................................................3Setting up Filter Usage..........................................................................................................................3The Use Header Filter option:......................................................................................................3The Use Content Filter option:....................................................................................................3The use Filter On Multi Pages Option:........................................................................................4Setting up the Coin Types......................................................................................................................4User Description..........................................................................................................................4Wrap this Coin Type in a Link.....................................................................................................4Method for Displaying Coins.......................................................................................................5Order for Displaying Coins..........................................................................................................5Method for Limiting Coins..........................................................................................................5Exclude Current Post or Page from Coin Results........................................................................6Visual Display Method................................................................................................................6Text Above Coin List...................................................................................................................6Text Below Coin List...................................................................................................................6Style the Coin Lists and Items.....................................................................................................6Custom Non-Post, Non-Page Coin Options.................................................................................7Setting up Container Styles...................................................................................................................8Creating Ads and Content Areas:...............................................................................................................8Post and Page Related Content and Ads................................................................................................8Custom Content and Ads.......................................................................................................................9Placing Ads and Content Areas:.................................................................................................................9Placement with the Privateer Theme.....................................................................................................9Placement with other Themes.............................................................................................................10Using Content Filters for Post and Page Coin Placement..............................................................10Placing Coins outside of Posts and Pages.......................................................................................10Using Short Codes to Place Ad and Content Blocks................................................................................11Basic Short Codes for Default Displays..............................................................................................11Advanced Short Codes to Override Defaults......................................................................................11Bugs, Feature Requests, Help, and More.................................................................................................13Check The Manual.....................................................................................................................13Check The Forums.....................................................................................................................13Contact Me.................................................................................................................................13

PWS WP Ad Managerversion 1.0page 1

Introduction:

This plugin is designed to allow one to place content of different types in various places on aWordPress web site.By default, there are four different types of content, called “coin types”, which you can use for whatever type of content you want, provided that the content is processed by the client. ( e.g. you can place text, html, and javascript, but php and asp will not work properly as of this version ).When placing content, you can set up the defaults for each content type and then override thedefaults as needed when placing particular content blocks.A content block consists of one or more pieces of content, presented in a row or column ( or withrows and columns if you are showing more items than you have set to be allowed in a single row or column ).Because I do not define your content types for you, you will need to know a little html and css inorder to make good use of this plugin, but the included copy of my simple html and css manual shouldshow you everything you need quickly to get excellent results.

Installation:

In order to install this plugin, you will need to first extract the zip archive that it is containedwithin...which you have likely done if you are reading this manual. However, in case you are readingthis online or have been sent a copy.In Windows, you can extract the zip archive by right-clicking on it and selecting one of thedisplayed extrac methods.For the Macintosh, try dragging the zip archive to the suffit expander.For Linux users...shame on you if you don't know how to open a zip archive! But you should be ableto use the command line unzip utility to do so.Once extracted, you should see the following files and directories:

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Directory / Folder : pws-wp-ad-manager

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This is the plugin directory that you should upload to the /wp-content/plugins/ folder onyour web server. Alternately, you can zip it up and upload it through the built in plugininstaller in wordpress.

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Zip Archive: pws-wp-ad-manager-widget

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This is a plugin that adds a sidebar widget which can be used to place coin spots in your side bars or widgetized areas. To use it, extract it and upload the contents to your /wp-content/plugins directory.

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File: simple-html-and-css.pdf

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