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

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:

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

The Adsense-Deluxe WordPress plugin can do more than simply help you add Adsense ads to your WordPress blog posts. It’s also great for including JavaScript code or most any other text you want to insert when a post is viewed.

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. ]

Just came across an excellent reference chart for the default text editing system key bindings in OS X Cocoa Text System - Default System Key Bindings.

For cool tips on modifying the default findings and doing some other pretty funky things to the Cocoa Text System, see MacOSXHints Post

Yet another top ten WordPress Plugins list includes our Adsense-Deluxe Plugin. Thanks guys!

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

I’ve been helping a friend with his new real estate oriented web site, and got my first chance to play with the Google Maps API. While limited, it is fun and certainly helps liven up a web page. The playground is at Obares. Presently we just focus the Google map at a City resolution for each individual city real estate page, but hope to start showing the local resources mapped out on the map.

AdSense-Deluxe v0.7 was released tonight and includes support for WordPress 2.0’s (WYSIWYG) Rich Editor as well as updating the documentation and help text to remind people it works equally well for Yahoo!’s Publisher Network.

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.
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