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Welcome back to the "Who Sees Ads" blog. No, seriously, I'd really like to get over this now, but I guess it's all my fault if when I add features, some pesky bugs manage to sneak in :)

Some were quite trivial to fix, but I'd like to publicly thank Steffen Richter again for his help. Steffen sent me the best bug report I've had since I started to write plugins (hey, it was more than 3 years ago now!). Some bugs he reported were excellent (and unnoticed till now) catches, and he suggested bits of code that were really helpful. Steffen, thanks again!

Changelog for this (last! I promise!) version is :

• <--wsa:mystuff–> now works again. Oops :)
• I removed the so-called WP-Cache support. This plugin is just broken when it comes to keeping some parts of a page dynamic.
• There are new options, both in the admin page and the my_options.php file.
• The plugin now support rotating ads : one context, multiple codes for it, the plugin will randomly pick one of them.

For the updated documentation and download link, please visit Who Sees Ads.

Another upgrade for Who Sees Ads, everybody's favorite ad management plugin. This version is not a trivial bug fix but do contains a few interesting stuff for everybody.

New features:

• Widget support! Thanks to the excellent Denis de Bernardy's suggestions and code, widget aware themes can now fully manage object positioning in their sidebars. A widget is created for each ad you'd create in the plugin.
• Better WP-Cache support. Yet another suggestion from Denis, the plugin simply echoes results within a WP-Cache comment wrapper that tell WP-Cache to make sure Who Sees Ads' output is always dynamic and never pulled from the cache. One of those "how on Earth did I manage not to think about this by myself" moments :)
• Views per visitor: a new display rule, suggested and coded by Paula from EZ Expert Website Tools, allows to define how many time each visitor should see something. This will be great for nags such as "Subscribe to my feed", which you obviously don't want to pester your regular readers with.
• Personal advanced settings. Remember my-hacks.php from old WordPress versions? Who Sees Ads now has a my_options.php file which can contain a few stuff to override default behaviors: search engine list, disabling widgets, and more. For advanced users only.
• A few small bugfixes which should fix possible problems with ShittyMCE Editor

This should be the last update for a while, except of course in case of a major breakage or trivial bug. I think the plugin has grown to something very powerful and very mature, in particular thanks to wonderful feedback and suggestions from users and readers. I'm quite proud of what it has become now, especially this kick ass user interface :)

So, what's next now ? I want to polish my next plugin, almost ready for release. Don't want to say too much yet, but I think it has the potential for becoming my most popular plugin :)

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Yet another minor update for Who Sees Ads which was requested by people using popularish and conflicting plugins: ImageManager and WP-Contact-Form.

Current version of Who Sees Ads, 1.2.2, adds support for WP-Contact-Form's terrible code. I hate to say this and I mean no offense to Ryan who wrote the plugin, but the code is really pretty bad and is likely to create conflicts with any other plugin. The sad thing is, the author's website is basically dead since several months (at least february 2007) so chances are the plugin won't be updated. I recommend to avoid this plugin. There are a lot of alternatives and many of them are still actively maintained.

The other conflicting plugin, ImageManager, is also prone to conflicting with any other plugin using the javascript library Prototype. I contacted the author with a few suggestions of improvement, and I hope he will reply positively.

So, basically, if you didn't notice any trouble with version 1.2+ of Who Sees Ads, don't bother upgrading. Next version of this plugin will be probably more chunky: I'll add support for widgets, more options and a few other display rules, all things that were suggested by readers. If you have some smart suggestion or feature request, feel free to drop them in the comments !

How are ads served on wordpress.com? To new visitors, depending on some factors and contexts… Photomatt gives details, and compares the features on wordpress.com with the one I coded for my plugin Who Sees Ads. How great is that ? :) (via)

I've updated Who Sees Ads (you know, the Ultimate Ad Management Plugin:) to fix a javascript error under WordPress 2.3 which would prevent the menu from working.

Latest is now Who Sees Ads 1.2.1. Get your copy !