I have gotten some email questions about wpAdmentor which I will try to answer here

a) Why should I use wpAdMentor instead of say openAds? Can wpAdMentor compete with openAds?

management. The banner engine also integrates with WP, for example it uses the builtin categories for “zoning” (a way of targetting)
 
- it is relatively lightweight. At least when it comes to database usage. For example I do not store EVERY single banner view (bannerid, ip, page etc), but aggregates per banner and day. Whether that’s a good thing or bad is your choice. I mean, with openAds, you can trace pretty much anyhing.

- if it can compete with openAds? I don’t know and I don’t care. Your choice. It totally depends on you needing a full blown banner server or not. I have created it for myself, depending on my specific needs for my blogs  - BUT it sure would make me happy if other people could have use it as well!

Another difference is that you can’t do “customer campaigns” like in in openAds or my own commercial product AdMentor PRO. In those systems an advertiser can login to check their own stats. Here the blog admin is the only one being able to see stats and manage campaigns.

b) Will there be further development?

- yes. I will NOT turn this into a “open source” project with the overall goal to create the best advertising manager in the world. I will make it as good as I need it to be - then we’ll see.

But improvements coming are:

  • ip country targetting ( being able specify to show a certain banner only to say US visitors )
  • media upload
  • code rewrite. I am so rusty when it comes to PHP. Havn’t done any PHP development since 2001 or so. So, therefore the actual code might not be tip top. Same goes with the Wordpress integration.
    It’s not all that easy to play well with Wordpress and it’s action handlers.

I am not sure but maybe

  • flash wizard (and flash click tracking as well)

Now - just go download and check wpAdMentor out: