If you’ve seen a PHP error when saving Adsense-Deluxe options in your WordPress blog which looks like the following:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /public_html/wp-content/plugins/adsense-deluxe.php on line XXX

it’s most likely because some adsense code was inserted into the database with fancy or curly quotes instead of plain ASCII quotes. I’ve gotten four reports of this problem and finally tracked it down while trying to work through the problem with an Adsense-Deluxe user. It seems I may have been the source of these mistakes because this user simply copied some code from one of my posts which showed how to make an ad block float to the left side of your post, and my WordPress was displaying that code with fancy/curly quotes.

If you’re able to fix those quotes or delete the adsense blocks you defined containing those quotes, that should resolve the problems. If you’re unable to do that, then there’s a convoluted method outlined below which can be used to wipe out all the plugin’s stored settings and start over.

Convoluted Way of deleting the plugin settings:

1. Use your FTP software to edit the file wp-content/plugins/adsense-deluxe.php.
2. Locate the line near the top of the file: define(’ADSDEL_OPTIONS_ID’, ‘acmetech_adsensedeluxe’);
3. Insert underneath that line, beginning on a blank line in the file:update_option(ADSDEL_OPTIONS_ID, '');, and save the file back to the server.
4. Return to your WordPress administration and load the Adsense-Deluxe options page. Loading this page after making that change will zero out the old options and create a new default set.
5. Go back to the Adsense-Deluxe.php file opened in your FTP software and remove that line. Save these changes back to the server.

For savvy users you can optionally go into the wordpress database and remove the plugin options record for the key ‘acmetech_adsensedeluxe’.

When I first wrote Adsense-Deluxe, I just wanted a more efficient method of including a variety of Adsense ads in my posts and templates, and a way to easily change those over time, or disable them. But Adsense-Deluxe is essentially just a search/replace filter for posts, which means you can just as easily include Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads, or Clicksor Contextual Advertising or any other advertising code the same way Adsense is configured.

Today one of the many satisfied Adsense-Deluxe users (Michael B. at http://www.MarketItOnline.co.nz wrote about his frustrations in finding a way to include JavaScript in his posts since WordPress adds <br> html formatting to each line of the JavaScript code. He asked if I had any ideas or knew of a plugin which would do this. While I suspect there may be some WordPress plugins in the “programmer tools” categories which could accomplish this, I suggested he just make the Adsense-Deluxe plugin perform that task. Afterall, Adsense ad code is nothing more than JavaScript, so instead of advertising JavaScript, you can use any other JavaScript you want for per-post inclusion.

[ You can checkout Michael’s Body Mass Index Calculator JavaScript within a WordPress post. ]

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Being an Adsense publisher myself on several of my earlier websites, Adsense Deluxe is one of the first plugins that I searched for. It’s a great plugin allowing you to plug your Adsense ads easily anywhere within your post simply by inserting html comments. You can define a single default code or as many variations as you like for your skyscraper, banner, link unit ads.

Our favorite site for professional blogging also received a lot of feedback recommending Adsense-Deluxe.

AdSense-Deluxe is a plugin for WordPress (1.5 or later) which greatly simplies the addition of Google or Yahoo! ads to your WordPress blogs, allowing for use of multiple ad styles and controlling when and where ads are displayed.

I’ll be putting up more information here in the coming days about my experiences using it with WP 2.0, however I’m not likely to be using the Rich Editor on a regular basis. I prefer working with QuickTags and raw HTML, and have seen several people who were active in testing WordPress 2.0 betas write that the Rich Editor (based on TinyMCE) has some flaws. It’s an amazing bit of engineering, but is apparently prone to outputting some sketchy and invalid HTML at times. So if you’re not uncomfortable with HTML codes, I recommend turning off the Rich Editor (goto your user “profile” in WP 2.0 and uncheck that option at the bottom of the page).

Click this link and scroll down the page a bit to get the latest version of Acme Technologies Adsense-Deluxe Plugin for WordPress 2.0 (you want version 0.7 or later). If you have problems or comments, please email them to me or leave comments on this post. Please… read the included ReadMe.txt file if you’ll be installing this for WordPress 2.0 and want support for the Rich Editor. Installation is no longer quite as simple in that scenario.

A quick reminder: please give something back to help support the development of this great plugin by enabling the “Reward Author” checkbox in the Adsense-Deluxe Options page. All this does is make a small percentage (5% or less) of the ads displayed on your blog, use my adsense publisher ID, so if someone happens to click an ad in that case, a few pennies get channeled to my account. It’s greatly appreciated…
Thanks for your interest in the Adsense-Deluxe plugin. -wayne

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