Rotate Banners with the Max Banner Ads WordPress Plugin

Kyle Eslick — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:30 +0000

Statistics have long shown that rotating your advertising or affiliate banners can decrease advertising blindness and increase clicks. More clicks makes bloggers happy and advertisers happy!

A few months ago I wrote a post about the Got Banners WordPress plugin, which is a simple WordPress plugin that was designed to allow you to rotate banners in a set location. What it does not do is allow you to rotate multiple banners without displaying them all, meaning you can’t rotate 8 banners within 4 posts, etc.

I’ve been waiting for a suitable replacement and I believe yesterday I may have found what I was looking for. What I’m talking about is a new free WordPress plugin by MaxBlogPress called Max Banner Ads.

To get an idea what this plugin is about, you really need to click over and check out the video demonstration that comes with it, but I will attempt to explain it here. Max Banner Ads sort of works like the Shylock AdSense WordPress plugin in that it requires no code hacking. You actually control your advertisements from the WordPress dashboard.

Max Banner Ads allows you to rotate several banners in a single spot or multiple spots, and you can choose from several locations, including your header, sidebar (using widgets), footer, or even within your posts. Want to place it only in the second post? You can do that as well!

As I mentioned above, this plugin is actually being released for free by the author, but he does ask that you write a quick review or at least mention it on your blog. Considering the potential value of this plugin, I think that is more than fair.

[Check out the Max Banner Ads WordPress Plugin]

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125×125 Button-Ready WordPress Themes Gallery

Kyle Eslick — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:00:59 +0000

Updated: May 15, 2011

About a month ago, I sent a call out to the WordPress community requesting that more themes be released that by default include slots for 125×125 banners. These ad ready WordPress themes are all the rage, yet it seems that few designers took the time to optimize their themes for these banners. Common sense says that if there is very little supply but a lot of demand, the people that fill the demand will find tremendous success.

In looking at the recent trends with newly released themes over this past month, it seems that bloggers have really responded and there is now a wide variety of WordPress themes available for download. I decided there are finally enough of them now that I can throw together a gallery of WordPress themes that allow for 125×125 banners. Enjoy!

Update: The below are all free WordPress themes. If you’d like to get a more advanced WordPress theme, check out our Premium WordPress Themes gallery.

2-Column Themes

Typebased Theme

Source/Demo | Download

Vintage Theme

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Rotate Banners with the Max Banner Ads WordPress Plugin

125×125 Button-Ready WordPress Themes Gallery

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