The WP Expander Plugin is a WordPress plugin that delays the loading of widgets. You will see it in action on this website on the right sidebar and to the right of the content you are reading now.
The idea behind this plugin is so many Internet users are used to seeing banner ads they have “ad blindness”, they no longer “see” the ads. By using the WP Expander Plugin the ads slide open after the rest of the content has loaded (you can set the delay in seconds) and the act of the ad or other content opening after the visitor has started viewing the content draws their attention to your banner ads etc…
I didn’t make the WP Expander Plugin, but own the resale rights and have fixed a few small PHP errors in the code that has the potential to break RSS Feeds. To purchase the WP Expander Plugin (for $10) use the PayPal button below.
It’s an instant download as long as you don’t pay using an eCheque (roughly a 5 day delay if paying by eCheque).
You can use the WP Expander Plugin via the widgets menu under Appearance >> Widgets. Drag and drop a WP Expander Plugin Widget to a sidebar/widget area and add your code to the form that opens (just like how a WordPress text widget works). Set the time delays and you are done.
If you purchase a copy of the Stallion Theme there are widget areas throughout the theme allowing you to add delayed banner ads and other content with this plugin. In a future update of Stallion I plan to incorporate this plugin into the code in a way so some of the built in ads can be delayed to reduce ad blindness.
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Hi David.
I just added a WordPress plugin to my site called WP Expander which is actually a replacement for the text widget. The plugin allows you to set a delay before the box displays so that visitors will get drawn to it, hopefully. You can put any code in it so can use it for text, adverts, opt-in box etc. Would be a nice feature in future additions of Stallion!
I’m testing it on the my site.
Unfortunately it is displaying immediately the page loads as opposed to any delay settings, 15 seconds in this case.
I’ve gone back to the developer but in addition can you just confirm that Talian should support this type of plugin please which uses javascript.
thanks
Nigel
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WordPress Expander Plugin
I’m not familiar with the WP Expander Plugin. There’s no reason why Talian 5 (or Stallion 6) should break a plugins code.
I had a look at your site and the demo for the WP Expander Plugin and your site is loading the plugins javascript file and I see similar code for the actual widget.
Looks like the plugin uses javascript to add a timing element to text widgets.
The only difference I see between the demo site and your site is this class is missing:
ypn-widget
On the demo there’s a li tag with class ypn-widget that the WP Expander Plugin javascript presumably looks for to add the delay to.
My guess would be either you’ve not pasted all the code into a text widget (if you do copy and paste, I have no idea how it works) or the plugin assumes all themes use a li tag to surround widgets (not all themes do, Talian and Stallion included) and so you don’t get the ypn-widget class associated with the li tag (in Twentyten it’s associated with the surrounding li tag).
If you can get it working could be quite useful for Stallion since I’ve added widget areas in the header, below the header, above the footer and main content (you can have widget areas, like the sidebars anywhere on a page). Added them to allow for custom ads and more options for the current sidebar ads. You could for example add a custom ad where the main content ad is in Talian 5 and have it load after X seconds, might reduce ad blindness.
Don’t have time to play around with this concept before the Stallion release (few days with a bit of luck), but maybe for the next update.
David
WordPress Expander Plugin
WP Expander Plugin Review
I saw potential in the WP Expander plugin so bought the master resale rights version to see what it’s all about :-)
Problem was as I expected the plugin assumes the theme has a before_widget and after_widget that includes code something like this:
In Talian 5 and Stallion 6 these were blank as they aren’t needed (I try to keep the code as clean as possible).
I’ve ran a test adding the above code with Stallion and it has no impact on the theme (doesn’t mess up the coding, so will use it for the Stallion release) and results in the WP Expander plugin working as expected.
Not tested with Talian 5, but I see no reason why it wouldn’t work the same way as with Stallion. If you are in a rush to get this working (don’t want to wait for Stallion) you can edit the Talian 5 functions.php file, just replace the two relevant lines with the code above.
There’s a few errors in the plugin files, the author has left blank spaces at the bottom of some of the PHP files that results in blank lines at the top of your page (only seen at code level, but can break RSS feeds). You should remove those blank lines.
Since I have the master resale rights now will probably sell this plugin after I release Stallion. I should be able to incorporate the plugin into the Stallion ad code so you can set ads to show after X seconds, not just custom ads, but all the built in ads. If I can get it to work (I see no reason why not) I’ll include it in the next update (probably end of March, though no promises on the exact date).
Will be interesting to see if having an AdSense ad pop up in the main content 15 seconds after loading say results in a higher CTR.
The WP Expander plugin author has set the minimum price to sell this plugin at $10, so will sell it for $10 (don’t worry the original plugin will work with whatever I do with Stallion, so you won’t have to buy it twice :-)).
Nice plugin find there Nigel.
David
WP Expander Plugin Review
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Is it safe to use them for adsense ?
Not sure if I see it on your site right now- but I get what it does.
Do you know if we are we allowed to put adsense in a “delayed” widget like that ?