OpenX and WordPress

[Angela]

Has anyone integrated OpenX with your WordPress site? I was under the impression that we could use a plugin for a plug-n-play style ad server, but that is not the case. We are on OpenX 3.0 and the company says we need a "suitable templated field within WordPress" for it to work.

The code does not work in a text widget, like our other ad serving codes do.

Thanks!

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Angela – I write fiction, review books and get walked daily by a big dog.

[AnitaC]

Looks like OpenX is working on a plugin - http://www.openx.com/community/openx-plugin-for-wordpress. Try that and see if it works for you.

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[Angela]

Thanks! OpenX told us yesterday that this plugin will not work for us, because they are now at 3.0 and the plugin is for older systems. I'm pretty frustrated, since a key selling point was plugin integration with WordPress. There is also a different plugin on WordPress.org. I couldn't get either of these to work earlier.

I've never coded ad space in a template, but I'm wondering if that is what I will need to do to get it to work.

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Angela – I write fiction, review books and get walked daily by a big dog.

[AnitaC]

Is it possible to share the link the the code you need to add to the template so we can take a look?

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[Angela]

Thanks! Sure, this is just a demo, so it should not be a problem.

<!--/* OpenX IFrame tag */-->
<iframe id="522f95e1b1b79" name="522f95e1b1b79" src="http://ox-d.learfieldnews.com/w/1.0/afr?auid=478749&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE" frameBorder="0" frameSpacing="0" scrolling="no" width="728" height="90"></iframe>

This is what OpenX says about this code: I suspect that all that is more so needed is to find a suitable templated field within WordPress can can be used to implement the attached tag example.

I've used iframe before and we just copied and pasted into a text widget and it worked - with no special coding. Sort of like PollDaddy. We've used scripts in the same fashion. I've tried the code as is, changing INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE to a random number, removing <!--/* OpenX IFrame tag */--> and pretty much anything I can think of, but it just does not show. The test feeds they sent earlier also didn't show.

Appreciate any feedback you have. Hopefully your fresh eyes can see something I don't! 🙂

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Angela – I write fiction, review books and get walked daily by a big dog.

[AnitaC]

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[Angela]

Anita, thanks so much for your help on this thread. We discovered this afternoon that OpenX didn't have ANY ads associated with this test feed- just a grey placement box that only showed up in Dreamweaver for us. I'm not quite sure how they wanted us to test it on WordPress without any ads, but their team doesn't seem very familiar with the platform. Once they put ads with it, it worked.

I really appreciate your help! THANK YOU! I'll mark this resolved.

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Angela – I write fiction, review books and get walked daily by a big dog.

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