Banners

Features

• Five slots: header, above the content, sidebar, below the content, footer. Each is a block that can be moved in «Appearance → Home & blocks».
• Three kinds: an image with a link, words with a link and a button, ad network code. Three sizes, separate images for tablet and phone.
• Display pages (all, home page, path masks such as /shop/* or everything except them), language, dates, days of the week and hours.
• Impression and click limits, a daily limit per browser, weighted A/B rotation, campaigns paused with a single button.
• An impression is counted by the browser when at least half of the banner is visible, so page caching does not distort the figures. A click leads only to the link stored in the banner record.
• In the panel: overview, a filtered list, campaigns, a position map, daily statistics.

Configuration

«Settings» → «Banners»:

• Banners per placement — from 1 to 10, 3 by default.
• Track viewable impressions — on.
• Minimum visible time, ms — 500 by default.

Permissions

• See banners — overview, lists, statistics. On installation: administrator, editor, manager.
• Add and change banners — on installation, administrator only: ad network code runs on the pages as is.

On the site

The module has no pages of its own. Service addresses: /banner/{id} — a redirect that counts the click, /banner/{id}/impression — an impression beacon.

Installation and removal

Tables banners and banner_daily_stats. Three samples are created on installation: above the content, in the sidebar and in the footer. A deleted banner goes to the shared bin; emptying the bin also removes its statistics, while the images stay in the media library. Removing the module with its data erases both tables.