Changelog

1.29.1

• Fix: ensure Advanced_Ads_Adsense_Report_Helper JavaScript global is defined
• Fix: hide AdSense setting submit button if there is no publisher ID
• Fix: show error message when no AdSense account data found

1.29.0

• Improvement: update AdSense API to V2
• Improvement: unify layout of backend notices
• Improvement: move some descriptions into tooltips
• Improvement: move ad blocker fix options to the related setting
• Fix: correct uppercase CSS rule for labels in backend
• Fix: remove usage link for every type except manual placement
• Fix: correct sorting of placements by type on placement list page
• Fix: bad language in Analytics Adblock Counter option

1.28.0

• Improvement: add an inline attribute to the the_ad shortcode that allows the user to change the wrapper from div to span
• Improvement: update plugin updater class
• Improvement: rename “Item” option into “Ad / Group” to clarify its purpose
• Improvement: show a link to create a new ad on the placement page
• Improvement: show content placements first when creating a new one
• Improvement: remove welcome panel on ad edit screen
• Improvement: rename last button in the wizard to “Save” to highlight that this is the last step
• Fix: wrap advanced_ads_ready_queue in an IIEF to prevent naming collisions

1.27.0

• Improvement: prevent issues with functionality from other plugins that delay JavaScript execution (WP Rocket, Complianz, et al.).
• Improvement: unify the layout of the Next buttons in the ad Wizard
• Improvement: add the updated AdSense code. Added a filter to continue using the old AdSense code. Learn more
• Improvement: update Ad Block Counter to work with Google Analytics 4 properties
• Fix: ensure Ad Admin can save AdSense, Privacy, and License settings
• Fix: prevent error when “Remove data on uninstall” option is set due to uninitialised constants
• Fix: ad edit button for ads delivered using groups
• Fix: improve compatibility with PHP 8 by removing default values from required function parameters

1.26.0

• overwrite existing options when importing new options
• add possibility to export privacy, ads.txt and Google AdSense options
• remove duplicate inline styles for placements with passive cache-busting and activated TCF 2.0 privacy option
• adjust the Advanced Ads block layout to the default WordPress block layout
• add migration from Advanced Ads widget to Advanced Ads block
• fix saving of additional CSS class in Advanced Ads block
• make placement deletion confirmation dialogue translatable
• add WebP as allowed image media type for exports

1.25.1

• fixed a bug that prevented removing placement conditions
• trim inline-css to remove duplicate spaces
• check if inline-css index exists in ad options to prevent undefined index notice
• move Advanced_Ads_Inline_Css class from singleton to one instance per ad, to fix issues with inline-css not being added
• fixed ad edit button visibility in frontend when ad label was activated

1.25.0

• show ad label event when ad wrapper is now shown
• add filter advanced-ads-ajax-ad-select-arguments to modify arguments of AJAX ad selection
• display ads on BuddyPress pages when no ads allowed on 404 pages
• Ad blocker fix: do not copy assets from “vendor” and “lib” folders
• Ad blocker fix: compare assets based on filemtime instead of filesize
• bump minimal require WP core version to 4.9
• allow to add a replacement for AdSense page-level code

1.24.2

• fix authenticated (i.e. logged-in) DOM-based XSS vulnerability while creating jQuery object from user input in Safari and IE

1.24.1

• fix compatibilty with WP prior to 5.0

1.24.0

• AdSense deprecated Link Units and might no longer fill them. So we removed them when creating new ads. Learn more
• enable AdSense Auto ads on AMP pages
• interpret WP blocks in the plain text ad type
• remove MailPoet warning since they are not retiring custom shortcodes after all
• convert jQuery shorthand functions to .on() and .trigger()
• made shortcode button work with WordPress 4.9
• allow to exclude conditions from the “new display condition” dropdown
• prevent AdSense earnings box from appearing on non AdSense ad page when AdSense connection is lost

1.23.2

• reverted erroneously removing plugin author index

1.23.1

• removed warning about iThemes Security since it is no longer causing the reported issue
• added correct icon to Advanced Ads block
• fixed escaping for AdSense Auto ads codes that use the deprecated “Disable Top Level” option
• fixed TinyMCE warning in dev console
• replaced intval() and floatval() with type-casting

1.23.0

• MailPoet is going to deprecate custom shortcodes. See this section in case you are using Advanced Ads ads in your newsletters
• updated Google AdSense API to use web application verification
• prevent accidental public ad URLs. See Making the Ads post type public if you want to query ads via a dedicated URL
• allow to reserve only width or height for plain, rich content and group ad types

1.22.2

• fix shortcode button within Classic editor and Classic editor block

1.22.1

• removed “Disable shortcode button” setting after it became obsolete in 1.22.0
• added the advanced-ads-disable-shortcode-button filter to disable the shortcode button
• removed ads.txt-related warnings when the option is disabled
• fixed issue with loading of shortcode button in editors that disabled custom buttons, e.g., Elementor
• fixed JavaScript warnings in Elementor editor

1.22.0

• made dashboard layout compatible with WordPress 5.6
• removed irrelevant AdSense warnings
• allow filtering of data-attributes for encoded ads if privacy module is enabled
• added advanced-ads-ad-edit-show-placement-injection filter to allow removing the placement-injection box on the ad edit screen
• added advanced-ads-unhide-meta-boxes filter to allow adding of meta box ids that should always be visible on ad edit pages
• added advanced-ads-ad-option-{$field} filter for ad options
• added action hooks for ad status changes: advanced-ads-ad-status-published, advanced-ads-ad-status-unpublished, advanced-ads-ad-status-{$old_status}-to-{$new_status}
• removed public URLs for single ads on some installations
• fixed old icon in the menu
• fixed Internet Explorer 11 incompatibility
• fixed possible error in TinyMCE editor caused by ad blockers

1.21.1

• fixed pagination on the ad list page
• fix Google AdSense non-personalized ads

1.21.0

• enable Position options for Sidebar placements
• increased default weight for ads imported to a group from 1 to 5 which is mostly relevant when selling ads to existing placements
• Ad Health: added body classes that explain plugin behavior at given moment
• ads.txt: prevented converting special characters into HTML entities
• show ad overview list even if all ads were moved to trash
• fixed error when specific ACF function does not exist
• fixed option to disable ads also on the “Posts page” as set in the WordPress Reading settings

1.20.3

• whitelist field groups created by Advanced Custom Fields on the ad edit page
• prevent including AdSense Auto ads code when the Borlabs Cookie is already adding it
• prevented adding unneeded escape characters to ads.txt file
• added compatibility with Funding Choices when consent is not needed

1.20.2

• fixed displaying image ads if privacy method is set to custom cookie
• fixed scroll to last edited placement with non-English letters
• fixed minor UI issues

1.20.1

• don’t escape top anchor ads code as a whole, user input has already been escaped

1.20.0

• integrate with TCF 2.0 compatible consent management platforms, e.g., Quantcast Choices
• improve timezone methods Advanced_Ads_Utils::get_wp_timezone() and Advanced_Ads_Utils::get_timezone_name()
• Divi theme: made content injection work with the “Unlimited ad injection” setting disabled
• added missing spaces to image ad tags to fix Cache-Busting issue
• made ad centering work when right and left margin are set
• add ad health check if __tcfapi responds but the privacy module is either not enabled or not set to TCF 2.0
• remove duplicate lines from the ads.txt file
• fixed layout issues that happens due to the JNews theme

1.19.1

• apply WordPress lazy loading for images to images in ad content
• layout fixes for WordPress 5.5

1.19.0

• placements are now ordered by type on the Placements page. You can still choose ordering by name
• the “custom” option of the Content placement now comes with a picker to select the position in the frontend
• WPML: placements pages show ads according to the selected language
• WPML: display the ad in the original language if a translated ad is missing unless the publisher chooses to hide it instead
• prevented injection of ads into captions of “image” blocks
• improved bot check
• fixed layout of expiry data fields
• fixed broken check for the Responsive add-on

1.18.0

• inject ads automatically based on div, table, quotes, iframe, and other HTML tags
• define your own injection rules using the new “custom” option for the Content placement
• hide Shortcode button in TinyMCE editor by default for new users
• added advanced-ads-options filter for main plugin options
• prevent automatic ad injection into paragraphs within blockquotes
• hide placement options after publishing an ad translated with WPML
• disallowed ad insertion into the header of the WP File Manager’s admin page

1.17.12

• set default name for ads where none was given
• fixed issue where long option markup could break the group page
• made placements of type other than “Header Code” work with “Thrive Theme Builder” theme

1.17.11

• added Datanyze and Ecosia to bots list
• linked to Google Ad Manager Integration
• fixed Layout Key field for AdSense ads not saving new values
• fixed error that broke the wizard when the URL field of image ads contained a wrong value
• fixed links to manuals
• fixed unneeded notification shown when ads are disabled on 404 pages

1.17.10

• fixed escaped HTML tag in Ad Planning column
• fixed possible JavaScript error caused by Ad Health checks
• fixed possible third-party conflict causing the ad group filter to throw an exception
• removed unneeded notification shown when ads are disabled on 404 pages

1.17.9

• fixed warning about missing the_content filter in WordPress 5.4
• fixed public warning if the WordPres widget function is called with wrong parameters
• fixed wrong usage of get_current_user

1.17.8

• WPML: placements now deliver also ads translated with WPML when only one of the language versions was assigned to them
• fixed delete option in placement form

1.17.7

• fixed index value of content placements not showing up in the form while saved and working correctly
• recovered compatibility with the “Render Blocking JS” option of the WP Fastest Cache plugin

1.17.6

• improved coding style in backend templates
• prepared for option to allow minimum number of words between ads in Advanced Ads Pro
• hide notice that warns if the “Disable ads in REST API” option was selected
• Renad theme: fixed a bug that caused menu item to point to incorrect url instead of theme options

1.17.5

• fixed ads being injected multiple times when using the Newspaper theme or multiple the_content filters

1.17.4

• added option and Display Condition to disable ads in content served through the REST API
• made error notices less obstrusive
• code style optimizations
• fixed ad groups form on ad edit page
• fixed potential conflict with autoloader

1.17.3

• prevented content injection into specific elements where ads cause issues
• assign advads-stop-injection class to any element into which you don’t want to automatically inject ads
• fixed possible cURL error when checking existing ads.txt file locally

1.17.2

• replaced autoloader
• fixed an issue where an expired ad removed HTML in the ad code

1.17.1

• fixed failing upload of new image ads
• fixed Google Ad Manager debug link also showing up when other Google Publisher Tags are used

1.17

• improved AdSense ad unit list coming from the AdSense API
• improved “highlight ads” option in Ad Health
• show notice if AJAX calls are broken
• added com.pl as exception for placing ads.txt files in subdomains
• removed placeholder for AdSense ads in the Customizer and Elementor editor
• fix for WP Smush lazy load preventing image ads from showing at all

1.16.1

• fixed JavaScript that broke privacy module check in the frontend
• allow to change size of AdSense ads loaded from the AdSense account

1.16

• moved all users to the new content injection logic and removed opt-out option
• use new Auto ads code for everyone who didn’t enable the “Disable top anchor ads” option
• hide “Disable top anchor ads” option to users who didn’t enable it
• the Ad Admin user role can now also save the plugin settings
• hide Wizard for existing ads
• removed warning about WP Autoterms plugin after a fix by the plugin authors
• some work for Conditions to improve compatibility with an upcoming Pro feature
• fixed multiple wrappers occurred as result of using nested ads
• fixed missing index issue on 404 pages for logged-in admins
• fixed AJAX/PHP error 403 on Settings page
• fixed layout issue that happened when “If>So Dynamic Content” plugin was active
• prevented Ad label from taking height of fixed sized AdSense ads