Release v4.0.0
Advanced Ads - Tracking Addon v4.0.0
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Advanced Ads - Tracking Addon v4.0.0 was released on . The Tracking add-on allows you to improve your ad setup based on statistics. See the full changelog below and compare with the complete version history.
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Changelog
Added
- Rebuilt Analytics inside the Advanced Ads app: Overview, Explore, Traffic, Ads, Placements and Advertisers screens with date range picker, compare, drill-down and CSV export
- Advertiser reports: share one public stats page for many ads, with a date range and charts
- Tracking destination setting: send data to the database, Google Analytics, or both
- Demo data for trying Analytics without live traffic
- Import 3.x stats history on upgrade
- Frontend shortcodes for ad and placement impression and click totals
- Exclude individual ads from tracking, and choose each ad's link window, nofollow and sponsored values, with quick edit and bulk edit support
- Statistics box on the ad screen, ad list statistics and the Best-performing Ads dashboard widget are back
- Send a test email report; per-ad reports can go to multiple addresses and include clicks and a by-date table
- Count clicks inside ad iframes, middle-clicks, and ads on AMP pages (including other network sites)
- Count ads from Ad Server, Pro's REST API and background placements
- Let consent gate Google Analytics without stopping local counting
Improved
- New tracking tables with daily statompaction by ad and placement
- Much faster stats queries: SQL-sidense caching, fewer requests per screen
- Frontend tracker rewritten, deferreds REST endpoints
- Tracking endpoints hardened againstquests, with an atomic, proxy-aware rate limiter
- Google Analytics IDs use a token fid
- Keyboard and screen reader accessib screens
- Bots are never counted from cache, and click links are kept out of search results
- Daily email and report jobs now run through Action Scheduler
- Settings export, plugin screen link settings, ad edit page and Analytics screens
- Add the Update URI header and mark as tested up to WordPress 7.1
- Uninstall now removes all tracking data, advertisers and 3.x leftovers
- update Arabic, Danish, French (Frania), German (Switzerland), German (formal), Greek,Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish (Argentina), Spanish (Colombia), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Venezuela), Turkish and Vietnamese translations
Fixed
- Vulnerability on the dashboard widget's loa
- Remove usage of classes that prevented deactivating Tracking when Advanced Ads Free was unavailable (AA-6541)
- Log frontend Tracking script errors for diagnosis without disrupting ad rendering (AA-6542)
- Translation (.mo) files were corrupt and Wo to find them
- Email report totals, period labels and number formatting; backslashes in email settings; report email headers and failure
- Public stats for trashed and private ads, plain-permalink sites, and a fatal error on a missing ad
- Remove the locked Tracking card from the Mo installed
- Cloaked link clicks are counted for the placement and the redirect filter is restored
- Reset and prune tools report failures inste
- Release archive excluded the Tools tab view
Other
- reasons
Compatibility
- Requires WordPress
- 6.1
- Tested up to
- 7.1
- Requires PHP
- 7.4
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