/*** +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OpenX v2.5 | | ========== | | | | Copyright (c) 2003-2008 OpenX Limited | | For contact details, see: http://www.openx.org/ | | | | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | | the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or | | (at your option) any later version. | | | | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | | GNU General Public License for more details. | | | | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | | along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software | | Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ $Id$ */ This is a plugin/widget for the WordPress publishing platform. It will let you serve banners at your WordPress webpages with ease. This document describe how to get started. Installation ------------ 1) Copy the file openx-wp-widget.php into the /wp-content/plugins folder of your WordPress installation. 2) Login into your WordPress administration account and activate the plugin "openxwpwidget" at the plugin management page. This will add a new menu item OpenX-WP to the administration pages, below settings. 3) Change to the OpenX-WP setup page and type the url to the OpenX adserver you like to use into the textfield. You have to include the path to to the delivery folder, i.e. adserver.example.com/www/delivery 4) You are now ready to add banner-tags to your content. If you havn't already, create a zone at your OpenX-adserver and write down the zoneID. A banner-tag look like {openx:NNN}, NNN is your zoneID, i.e. use {openx:17} for zoneID 17. You can add banner-tags anywhere into your content, except the sidebar(s). See 5) how to add banners to the sidebar. 5) To add banners to a sidebar, first you have to add the OpenX-WP-Widget too the sidebar. This can be done at the Design / Widget pages in your WordPress administration. You'll find there a list of already installed widgets. Click at "Add" of OpenX Widget to serve banners from within the sidebar. OpenX-Widget appears below "Current Widgets". 6) Click at "Edit" of OpenX Widget. 7) Select how many rows of bannes you like to serve in your sidebar. If your OpenX-Zone serve skyscrapers, usually you choose just 1. For each row of banners you type the zoneID into the zoneID textfield. 8) Don't forget to "Save Changes". 9) done.