WP Visual Adverts

FAQ

Please note, actual plugin documentation, FAQ and plugin support you can find on our demo site.

How can I create ad categories

To create an ad group, go to the menu: “Visual Adverts”> “Adverts”> “Categoties”.
Set ad group name and click “Add New Category”.

More information you can find in the plugin documentation and FAQ on our demo site.

How can I create an ad

To create an ad, go to the menu: “Visual Adverts”> “Adverts” Click on the “Add New” to create a new ad.

To create different types of ads you can use the following parameters:

• Post Title – allows to set ad headline;
• Post Descriptions – allows to set ad description;
• Link – allows to set external or internal ad link;
• Post Featured Image – allows to set ad image;
• Advert Categories metabox – allows to set ad categories.

More information you can find in the plugin documentation and FAQ on our demo site.

How can I get image ad?

Create a new ad, upload featured image and save ad. Now you have ready-to-use image ad.

How can I get simple text ad?

Create a new ad, fill “Post Description” in and save ad. Now you have ready-to-use simple text ad.

How can I get text ad with headline?

Create a new ad, fill “Post Title” and “Post Description” in and save ad. Now you have ready-to-use text ad with headline.

How can I get clickable ad?

Create a new ad, fill all necessary fields in including “link” field and save ad. Now you have ready-to-use clicable.

Widgets

To add a widget to the sidebar, go to the menu: “Appearance”> “Widgets”, select widgets “WP Visual Adverts” and drag it to the desired sidebar.

Following options are available for configuring in the widget:

• Title – allows to set widget headline;
• Category – allows to set ads group for displaying; by default will be displayed all existed adverts;
• Font Color – allows to set widget text color.
• Refresh Time/Animation Speed: – allows to set animation options
• Advert Count – allows to set custom number of displayed ads for widget.

More information you can find in the plugin documentation and FAQ on our demo site.

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To change the global plugin settings, go to the menu: “Visual Adverts”> “Settings”.

You can configure the following options:

• Advert Image Size – allows to set default custom size of the ad image.
  NB! Please use “Regenerate Thumbnails” plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/) or similar one for properly displaying of custom thumbnails after customization of this plugin option;
• Refresh Time (msec) – allows to set custom time between ads updates; in order if you need to disable ads refreshing, you can set this option to zero value;
• Animation Speed (msec) – allows to set speed for fade in/fade out animation effect;
• Advert Count – allows to set custom number of displayed ads inside groups.

NB! All options will be used as initial for all new widgets with ads after options update.

More information can be found in the section screenshots and FAQ.

How to disable AJAX updates of Adverts?

Set “Refresh Time” as “0” in plugin settings

How can I style the widget content?

NB! Developers only
The plugin includes CSS file “assets/css/style.css”.
You can copy this file in your active theme and customize it for your needs.
Path to the styles inside the active theme:

[ActiveTheme]/templates/wp-visual-adverts/assets/css/style.css

How can I change the widget content?

NB! Developers only
The plugin includes some templates in “templates/” folder.
You can copy any template in your active theme and customize it for your needs.
Path to the templates folder inside the active theme:

[ActiveTheme]/templates/wp-visual-adverts/