It’s with no small amount of fanfare that we announce the release of AdSanity version 1.1. It’s been over six years since the initial release of AdSanity and while we’ve made incremental updates over the years this is the first release worthy of a “dot 1” increment. We’ve made some significant improvements to the plugin that most users are going to benefit from immediately. Let’s take a look at what’s new.

Tamaños de anuncios por defecto

We’ve talked about the new standards that the IAB has put in place. Now AdSanity supports these new standards allowing the creation of flexible ad units via HTML5. We’ve kept all of the standard ad units as well, but now you can create a 1 x 3 Responsive ad unit, and leveraging the power of HTML5, build ads that will adapt to new presentations.

Easy Short Code Access

While we had a short code tool available on the page editor, we’ve made the ability to copy and paste short codes for your ads or ad groups even easier. You can access these short codes from the manage ad screen, from the specific ad you’re creating, and the ad groups page. Making ad placement a snap if you’re using short codes or template tags.

Translations Available

Another new feature in this release is that AdSanity is now fully translatable. To support this feature and ability we’ve created a translation site leveraging GlotPress. In addition, we’re offering a free Blogger license (or $39 towards a Publisher or Developer license) to folks who want to contribute a new language to the available translations. Please contact us here if you’re interested in providing that translation and we’ll get you sorted.

User Agent Detection Improvements

Alongside new features we’ve also taken a look at our existing feature set. One of the items we’re most excited about is the new user agent detection. The new implementation dramatically reduces the database impact of AdSanity, simplifies the management interface, and improves overall performance. What this means is a much more scalable plugin for when your blog is getting the traffic you’re building for.

Help Site

As part of the build up to this new release we’ve also put together a new support site for AdSanity. With any piece of software, there are nuances that can go unnoticed. Our goal with this resource was to give a complete guide to the features and functionality in the plugin.

New Actions And Filters

We’ve also improved the extensibility of AdSanity. New actions and filters give developers new ways to modify the display of ads as well as hook into the internals of the plugin. You can find details on all available actions and filters on the help site. These are just a few of the highlights. We’ve included the release notes below for AdSanity version 1.1 and we hope that you’ll check out the plugin and let us know what you think.

But Wait, There’s More

We’re really excited about the new features, changes, and fixes in the new version of AdSanity, but we have more planned for this year. We’re going to be using some of the extensibility that we purposely built into AdSanity. We have some Basic and Pro add-ons that are in development and as soon as we can talk about them, we will. Stay tuned.

Release Notes for AdSanity version 1.1

  • Nuevo: Introduce nuevos tamaños de anuncios por defecto basados en las normas de la IAB.
  • Nuevo: Se han añadido botones para copiar y pegar rápidamente en las áreas de lista de anuncios, edición de anuncios y lista de grupos de anuncios del panel de control.
  • Nuevo: Ahora totalmente preparado para las traducciones
  • Nuevo: Se han añadido acciones a la visualización de anuncios para facilitar la modificación del marcado de anuncios sin utilizar plantillas de temas.
  • Nuevo: Se ha añadido una acción al seguimiento de clics para permitir que se ejecute un código personalizado al hacer clic en un anuncio.
  • Fix: In WordPress Multi-Site with subdirectories, we now prevent a sub-site from being created with the name “ads”
  • Corrección: Si se seleccionan varios widgets con el mismo grupo de anuncios, ahora se elegirán anuncios aleatorios para cada grupo.
  • Corrección: Eliminación de globales durante el vaciado de reglas de reescritura
  • Corrección: Corrección de los problemas de descarga de enlaces permanentes en la activación, desactivación y actualizaciones para evitar 404s en anuncios clicados.
  • Cambio: Cambia de usar la API WP_Cache a la API Transients para el almacenamiento en caché para una compatibilidad más amplia.
  • Actualización: Actualiza la biblioteca de actualización de plugins
  • Actualización: Actualizaciones del marcado admin para compatibilidad con WordPress y accesibilidad.
  • Actualización: Se ha actualizado el CSS predeterminado para incluir anchuras fijas para tamaños de anuncios basados en píxeles fijos.
  • Actualización: normalización y formato del código
  • Actualización: Documentación en línea mejorada
  • Update: Introducido un sistema de gestión de datos para futuras actualizaciones
  • Actualización: Revisado el sistema de detección de agentes de usuario
  • Actualización: Aumento del rendimiento de las consultas
  • Actualización: Se elimina la dependencia de las API de Google para las bibliotecas javascript externas.
  • Security: Increased security by adding index files so directories can’t be indexed in search engines
  • Security: Increased security by making sure individual PHP files can’t be loaded directly in a browser