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Free PHP Peelads - with plugin version for Wordpress

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

I have seen Peelads running on a few sites. I like them as a non-obtrusive way to feature content or ads. I thought there must be some free code to run them. Sure enough, there is - Pageear.

What is even better is there are plugins for CMS software, including this Wordpress Pagepeel Plugin. Very easy to install and configure. Just upload a 100×100 image and a 500×500 image for the initial peel and the full display and set a URL.

Works well. Recommended.

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Testing out OpenX - PHP-based Ad delivery

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

I have a couple of sites I want to run ads on and just installed open-source ad server, OpenX. The installation was easy. I plan to run the first tests here - so watch out!

I tried this out years ago as PHPAdsNew. New name and new product really. My first impressions are good. Will post how I go once I get into it some more.

Here is a walkthrough of setting up a campaign …

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