Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense Plugin

The ultimate ad management plugin for WordPress

Advanced Ads is the most comprehensive ad management tool available. It strikes the perfect balance between ease of use and powerful features, trusted by thousands of companies and businesses.

We took the pain out of advertising and made it easy to embed ads, banners, or any other code automatically—all within minutes and without the need for theme file editing. If you are looking for the best plugin for ad management, you have found it.

Manual | Support | Demo | Premium Features

• Usability: Clearly structured interface • Smart workflows for fluid day-to-day operations
• Functionality: Setting the gold standard for the market with outstanding features
• Compatibility: All ad networks • Dedicated integrations with loads of popular plugins and themes
• Expertise: Fast and top-rated support • Approved in publishing and ad optimization since 2009
• Reputation: Recommended by Google • Fully compliant with Google AdSense policies

Would you like to know if there is a certain feature, what the optimized setup would be, or how to implement your client’s demands? Just open a thread in the forum!

This is what our users are saying about Advanced Ads:

We use this plugin to deliver rotating ads on a community news site, and it’s great. We’ve delivered over a million ad impressions since we launched less than a year ago, using a combination of sidebar, top, sticky and in-content placements — both HTML5 and images. Advanced Ads makes it easy for our small team to deliver a good experience to our users and our advertisers.
mytown304 on wp.org

Advanced Ads allowed our founder to grow from 0 to 100 MM monthly ad impressions. Benefit from our experience as publishers and monetize your website today!

Premium Features

This plugin is the lite version of the Advanced Ads plugin that comes with all the features you will ever need to optimize your ads and increase your revenues, including performance tracking, advanced ad targeting, split tests, click fraud protection, lazy loading, background ads, popups and sticky ads, full AMP support, adblocker detection, the most comfortable Google Ad Manager integration, and tons more. Click here to purchase the best premium WordPress ad management plugin now!

Full Feature List

ad management

• create and display unlimited ad units
• ad rotation
• schedule ads and set start time and expiration date
• target ads by content and user groups
• inject ads into posts and pages automatically without coding

ad types

Choose between different ad types that enable you to:

• insert ads and banners from all ad and affiliate networks (e.g., Google AdSense, Amazon Affiliate Program, BuySellAds, Google Ad Manager (formerly Google DoubleClick for Publishers, DFP), Ezoic, media.net, Booking.com, Tradedoubler, Awin, Getyourguide, The Moneytizer, Infolinks…)
• dedicated support for all types of Google AdSense ads, including text and display ads, native ads (In-article, In-feed, Multiplex ads), Auto ads, and Auto ads for AMP
• display images and image banners
• create content-rich ads with the WordPress TinyMCE editor
• insert contextual Amazon Native Shopping Ads
• inject HTML, CSS, Javascript or PHP code
• use shortcodes within ads (to also deliver advertisements from another ad plugin like Ad Inserter, AdRotate, Quick AdSense, Ads for WP, or the Google AdSense Plugin WP QUADS)

display ads for WordPress

• auto-inject ads via placements
• use functions to display ads in template files
• use shortcodes to place ads manually in post content
• show ads in the sidebar and in widgets
• disable all ads on specific pages
• display multiple ads (ad grids)
• display a customizable ad label, e.g., “Advertisements” above each banner ad

display conditions

Show ads based on content. List of all display conditions

• individual posts, pages, and other post types
• posts by category, tags, taxonomies, author, and age
• archive pages by category, tags, taxonomies
• special page types like 404, attachment and front page
• posts and pages by contained keywords (keyword targeting) or URL parameters, included in Advanced Ads Pro
• hide ads on secondary queries (e.g., posts in sidebars)
• display or hide banners within the post feed
• hide all ads from specific page types, e.g., 404 pages, feed
• hide ads from bots and web crawlers

visitor conditions

Serve ads by conditions based on the visitor. List of all visitor conditions

• display or hide a banner by device: mobile, tablet, or desktop
• display or hide a banner by role and for logged-in visitors
• advanced visitor conditions: geolocation, previously visited URL (referrer), user capability, browser language, browser, and browser width included in Advanced Ads Pro

Fantastic plugin and outstanding support
I tried at least three other ad plugins for WordPress and ‘Advanced Ads’ is by and far the best one. Last but not least in the support. The first port of call are a number of excellent tutorials. And finally the hands on support. I don’t quite know how he does it but the speed and depth of responses are absolutely amazing.
djsawyer on wp.org

ad injection | placements

Placements to insert ads in pre-defined positions in your theme and content. List of all placements

• ads after any given paragraph, headline, image, or other HTML element
• ads at the top or bottom of the post content
• ads before closing </head> tag
• ads in the footer
• Page peel banners
• create split tests and A/B testing
• many more ad positions with add-ons
• automatic insertion of any kind of footer and header code, not only advertising
• use the ad server placement to display ads on other sites

mobile devices

• target ads to mobile devices, or tablets, or desktops
• display responsive image ads
• ads only for specific browser sizes using Advanced Ads Pro
• insert ads on AMP pages with AMP Ads

Google AdSense

Amazing features of the most powerful and easy Google AdSense plugin.

• unlimited Google AdSense ads banners
• pull ad units directly from your Google AdSense account
• show AdSense revenue in WP Admin
• change settings of your Google AdSense ads directly from your WordPress backend
• supports all Google AdSense ad types, including Google AdSense display ads, native ads like In-feed ads, In-article ads, Multiplex ads, Google AdSense Auto ads, and Google AdSense Auto ads for AMP
• change the type and sizes of AdSense ads without going into your Google AdSense account
• hide Google AdSense advertisements on 404 pages by default (to comply with Google AdSense terms)
• insert Google AdSense code for verification and AdSense Auto Ads
• enable AdSense Auto ads on AMP
• easy Ad Health integration and Google AdSense violation checks
• option to remove the Google AdSense background color
• place Google AdSense In-feed ads using the also free In-feed add-on
• assistant for exact sizes of responsive Google AdSense ads with the AMP Ads add-on
• convert Google AdSense ads into AMP ads automatically with the AMP Ads add-on
• ads.txt generated with the correct AdSense information automatically
• works along with Google Site Kit or can replace it if you want to control your ad placements

Like j4ckson185, there are thousands of happy AdSense users:

Your app is awesome, congratulations! Google Adsense suggests using your app on its official website, it’s incredible!

ads.txt

• generates an ads.txt with custom content
• adds the content for AdSense to the ads.txt automatically

Add-Ons

• all add-ons include priority email support
• All Access – includes all available add-ons
• Advanced Ads Pro – powerful tools for ad optimizations: cache-busting, more placements, lazy loading, ad blocker module, click fraud protection, geo targeting, parallax ads and many more
• Tracking – track ad impressions and ad clicks with local methods or Google Analytics
• AMP Ads – make your ads compatible with AMP and convert Google AdSense ads automatically
• Google Ad Manager Integration – a quick and error-free way to load ad units from your Google Ad Manager (formerly Google DoubleClick for Publishers, DFP) account without touching any ad codes
• Sticky Ads – increase click rates with fixed, sticky, and anchor ads
• Fixed Widget for WordPress – turn sidebar widgets into performant fixed sticky ads
• PopUp and Layer Ads – display ads and other content in layers, popups, and interstitials
• Selling Ads – allows you to sell ads on your website fully automated, including payments and advertiser profiles
• Ad Slider – create a simple slider from your ads
• Full Feature List

ad blocker

• basic features to prevent ads from being removed by AdBlock and other ad blockers
• prevent ad blockers from breaking sites where plugin scripts are running
• ad blocking detection: show alternative content to ad block users with Advanced Ads Pro and improve the monetization of your website

Learn more on the plugin homepage.

Thank you for motivating us with your positive review.

Localizations: Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese

If you have problems with Advanced Ads, please open a new topic in our forums on wordpress.org, or reach out to our premium support, if you have an active license.

Integrations

Advanced Ads integrates with plenty of other plugins:

• BuddyBoss – How to integrate ads into BuddyBoss
• BuddyPress – How to add ads on BuddyPress pages
• bbPress – How to show ads on bbPress pages?
• Cookie Consent, Borlabs Cookies, Complianz, GDPR Cookie Consent, and other content manager – How to show ads based on visitors’ consent
• Elementor – How to create and implement ads in Elementor
• GamiPress – How to target ads on GamiPress websites
• Genesis – Genesis Ads add-on
• IAB TCF 2.0 consent – hide ads until users give their consent. Integrating with any CMP, Quantcast Choices, iubenda, Google Funding Choices, cookiebot, etc.
• LearnDash – How to integrate ads into LearnDash
• MailPoet – How to integrate Advanced Ads in MailPoet Newsletters
• Paid Memberships Pro – How to manage ads on membership sites running Paid Memberships Pro
• Polylang – How to target ads to multiple languages in Polylang
• TranslatePress – How to target ads to multiple languages in TranslatePress
• Weglot – How to target ads to multiple languages in Weglot
• WPBakery Page Builder – Displaying Ads with WPBakery Page Builder
• WPML – Showing different ads per language with WPML

How to install the plugin and get it working?

Using The WordPress Dashboard

1. Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
2. Search for ‘advanced ads’
3. Click ‘Install Now’
4. Activate Advanced Ads on the Plugin dashboard

Uploading in WordPress Dashboard

1. Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
2. Navigate to the ‘Upload’ area
3. Select advanced-ads.zip from your computer
4. Click ‘Install Now’
5. Activate Advanced Ads in the Plugin dashboard

Using FTP

1. Download advanced-ads.zip
2. Extract the advanced-ads directory to your computer
3. Upload the advanced-ads directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
4. Activate Advanced Ads in the Plugin dashboard

1. 

   Placements that let you inject ads anywhere into your site without coding (7 in Advanced Ads + 14 through add-ons).

2. 

   Support for all kinds of ad types, including dedicated AdSense types. AMP is included in the AMP Ads add-on.

3. 

   Flexible ad input with the Plain Text ad type and code highlighting.

4. 

   Align your ads within the content.

5. 

   Dynamically change AdSense ad options in your WordPress backend.

6. 

   Choose where to display your ads using many conditions.

7. 

   Use various conditions to choose who should see ads (basic plugin and more in add-ons).

8. 

   See AdSense earnings in your WP Backend

9. 

   Track impressions and clicks (Tracking add-on).

10. 

    Convert AdSense ads into AMP automatically (AMP Ads add-on)

1.52.4 (June 27, 2024)

• Fix: replace forgotten instances of a JS variable that caused an error

1.52.3 (May 14, 2024)

• Fix: remove a PHP warning in Gutenberg block

1.52.2 (May 6, 2024)

• Fix: enhance data handling in Gutenberg block module for improved security
• Fix: replace function ‘maybe_unserialize’ with a more secure custom function

1.52.1 (April 4, 2024)

• Fix: resolve issue with saving group weight

1.52.0 (April 3, 2024)

• Improvement: bump ‘Tested up to’ version to 6.5
• Improvement: add status icon for ads in group modal