Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense

2.0.19 (April 9, 2026)

• Improvement: Added AMP for WP Ads importer to improve ad migration accuracy
• Improvement: Implemented upgrade notices from readme for new releases
• Fix: support form submission issue

2.0.18 (March 26, 2026)

• Feature: importer for Ads for WP to migrate ads, groups, placements and settings.
• Improvement: Add Ad Inserter importer
• Improvement: Replace WP-Cron with Action Scheduler for Ad Expiration
• Improvement: Brave browser adblocker fallback ads were not triggered, Brave allows detection script through
• Improvement: Test plugin compatibility with WordPress 6.9.
• Improvement: Optimize ad rendering by replacing DOM parsing with native PHP regex processing
• Improvement: Remove Amazon Integration banner from dashboard and disable PEF Module
• Improvement: Add Ads, Placements, and Groups to Command Palette
• Fix: fallback images show correctly based on user consent and non-personalized option
• Fix: Fix nested rendering of sidebar and header placements by optimizing injection logic
• Fix: Fix multiple WPML bugs, including disabling translations for groups, fix placements not showing translated ads and grous
• Fix: Adds scheduled ads to the Gutenberg widget dropdown selector, if scheduled ad is selected, will only show when published
• Fix: AMP – Responsive add-on license field not showing up on License Settings
• Fix: Duplicated ads not showing on ad group when added via metabox, deleted ads not being cleared from group ad weights
• Fix: Change the trigger logic of new placement modal when no placements, trigger hashchange event (on dialog-advads-modal.js)
• Fix: Reword Advanced Ads notifications warning on Settings page, from errors to notifications
• Fix: Remove Product Experimentation Module, Amazon banner from old support page
• Fix: Resolved fatal error in Groups upgrade caused by namespace issue

2.0.17 (February 3, 2026)

• Improvement: Added admin notice to warn when other ad-related plugins are active and may conflict with Advanced Ads
• Fix: remove license key prompt for Slider add-on
• Fix: clearfix checkbox saving and description alignment in the admin meta box
• Fix: prevent removal of backslashes in ad code
• Fix: screen options from Advanced Ads showing on other plugin’s pages
• Fix: conflict with Fluent-SMTP plugin

2.0.16 (December 30, 2025)

• Improvement: PHP 8+ compatibility for the ad expiration cron event
• Improvement: security by allowing only valid sorting options when loading placements

2.0.15 (December 25, 2025)

• Improvement: prevent any PHP execution in shortcode rendered ads to enhance security
• Improvement: handle IP visitor condition by removing extra spaces and line breaks
• Improvement: enhance security by permission check when updating placement item
• Fix: show hierarchical groups metabox in edit ad page

2.0.14 (November 18, 2025)

• Feature: pagination for Groups and Rotations
• Fix: Groups page screen options spacing

2.0.13 (October 20, 2025)

• Fix: Enhance protection against potential unauthorized access in certain frontend requests

2.0.12 (September 23, 2025)

• Improvement: prevent quotation marks in ad codes being escaped with ACF enabled
• Fix: groups now correctly inject ads in header placements
• Fix: remove placements from WPML translation options

2.0.11 (August 27, 2025)

• Fix: backslash disappears in ad code editor
• Fix: deprecated parameters warning
• Fix: avoid crash when restoring posts from other post types
• Fix: extra whitespace being added before headings in rich-content editor
• Fix: ads expiry date works as expected

2.0.10 (July 28, 2025)

• Fix: add null check in display conditions
• Fix: optimize ad handling and performance for MailPoet
• Fix: restore placement in widget dropdown
• Fix: resolve issue with ad blocker detection
• Fix: save pagination display condition in placements
• Fix: duplicate ad labels when using group as ad type
• Fix: append ad to existing group when selecting placement from ad edit screen

2.0.9 (May 21, 2025)

• Improvement: improve amp conditions
• Improvement: Test plugin compatibility with WordPress 6.8.
• Improvement: add capability check in importer
• Improvement: standardize ADVADS_ADS_DISABLED check
• Improvement: null checks before accessing ad properties
• Fix: update failure help link only for Advanced Ads add-ons

2.0.8 (April 28, 2025)

• Improvement: type safety in add_body_class to prevent issues from third-party filters
• Improvement: improve the ad and group relation both way
• Fix: expiry date not updating for ads that already had one set

2.0.7 (April 9, 2025)

• Improvement: optimize MailPoet compatibility
• Fix: force array return in post_updated_messages
• Fix: quick edit for ads ignores tracking options and overwrites content

2.0.6 (April 1, 2025)

• Improvement: redirect to placement list after creating a new placement
• Improvement: remove ad creation message for server type placement
• Improvement: unify admin notifications
• Fix: prevent duplicate revision controls
• Fix: correct order of placement icons
• Fix: open create placement modal when no placements found
• Fix: show the search field when “Show filters permanently” is checked
• Fix: prevent CodeMirror to run on Rich Content ad edit page
• Fix: prevent ‘undefined key’ warning in XML feed
• Fix: use native php get error message function

2.0.5 (March 20, 2025)

• Fix: prevent false unsaved changes notifications for ads
• Fix: prevent errors with certain custom placement types
• Fix: hide discarded notification on the Advanced Ads dashboard
• Fix: prevent an error on the Advanced Ads dashboard
• Fix: correct ad expiry date inconsistencies
• Fix: prevent fatal error on Gutenberg editor
• Fix: restore execute shortcode feature

2.0.4 (March 18, 2025)

• Improvement: add update functionality to ensure receipt of premium updates
• Fix: resolve a fatal error caused by an invalid license
• Fix: prevent ad expiry from changing during save when timezone is not UTC
• Fix: prevent unknown placement types from breaking the page
• Fix: ensure “Execute Shortcodes” function is savable again
• Fix: restore PeepSo placement compatibility for Advanced Ads 2.0

2.0.3 (March 12, 2025)

• Improvement: reflect placement status changes immediately in the placement list
• Improvement: prevent plugin upgrade notice reappearing if already dismissed
• Fix: ensure ad centers when selected
• Fix: restore pagination functionality on ad list page