Advanced Ads – Tracking

• Improvement: add undefined translations
• Fix: Add ad validity check to Ad Limiter class early bails, rest of bug is fixed by action scheduler
• Fix: empty graph issue by correcting aggregation logic for group by and period filters
• Fix: empty graph display when a single-day period is selected
• Fix: graph to display all days in selected period, including days with zero data
• Fix: reset comparison section when the selected period changes
• Fix: Replaces WP Cron by Action Scheduler on Ad Limiter class to solve expired ads crons not clearing up issue
• Fix: Wrong action name on AMP pixel request for tracking ads impressions on AMP pages
• Fix: graph rendering issues and stats persistence on custom by standardizing date formats and preserving params
• Fix: add graph title to clarify selected period and aggregation.
• Fix: chart range misalignment and period comparison rendering issue
• Fix: stats legend clarity by aligning labels and colors with graph data

• Improvement: add undefined translations
• Fix: issue comes from ISO-8601 week rules
• Fix: deprecated filters update
• Fix: fix fatal error in pace recalculation when ad is missing

• Improvement: add undefined translations
• Fix: where link classes were stripped when using the %link% variable
• Fix: invalid date values appearing on the stats page
• Fix: where ajax-handler.php tracking is not working on Multisites

• Improvement: add undefined translations
• Improvement: show "disabled" in email report when impression or click tracking is turned off
• Fix: prevent impression divide by zero error in email reports

• Improvement: add undefined translations
• Fix: resolve an error when processing tracking links

• Improvement: add undefined translations
• Improvement: ajax handler will run with better performance and security
• Fix: remove mb_convert_encoding deprecation notice
• Fix: "advancedAdsGAInstances is not defined" JavaScript error
• Fix: Google Analytics tracking ID will correctly record impressions and clicks for ad placements
• Fix: prevent PHP DateRangeError on timestamp handling

• Improvement: add undefined translations
• Improvement: prevent fatal error when tracking on invalid or non-ad entries
• Fix: resolve incorrect loading of tracking JS files

• Improvement: add undefined translations
• Improvement: type safety in class-ad-limiter.php
• Improvement: Test plugin compatibility with WordPress 6.8.
• Fix: source URL tracking for cloaked links in debug logs
• Fix: add safety check in data handling
• Fix: the_ad_clicks shortcode render as plain text

• Improvement: public report url rewriting with backward compatibility
• Fix: removed all license-related code from the addons as license management has been moved to the free version.
• Fix: quick edit for ads ignores tracking options and overwrites content

• Improvement: update Arabic translations
• Fix: prevent fatal error on ad page

• Fix: resolve PHP warnings during the update process
• Fix: correct an error in the loading of the language files
• Fix: display ad names in public reports and shareable links again

• Feature: add best performing ads widget
• Improvement: add quick & bulk edit for tracking options

Build: 0000-00-00000000

• Improvement: modernize statistics page and graph optics
• Improvement: update Arabic, Danish and German translations

• Improvement: introduce filters advanced-ads-tracking-ajax-dropin-path and advanced-ads-tracking-ajax-dropin-url to allow changing the location of the ajax-handler drop-in file
• Fix: correct event name advanced_ads_decode_inserted_ads while handling events from Advanced Ads Pro

• Improvement: add Arabic translation
• Fix: undefined variable wpdb on multisite installation when network deactivating the plugin

• Fix: correct limiter not counting impressions if no click limit had been set

• Improvement: reduce database queries for limited ads if hourly limit has already been reached
• Fix: correct loading of jQuery UI on database operation page
• Fix: make sure click/impression limit can never have a negative value
• Fix: correct display metrics on ad list page when tracking or parts of it are disabled
• Fix: redirect links aren't getting tracked with Google Analytics on plain text ads
• Fix: redirect links were always cloaked independent of UI settings
• Fix: improve handling and tracking inconsistencies of pop-up and layer placements with cache-busting and delays
• Fix: only send one more individual ad email report after an ad has expired

• Feature: allow tracking for the Google Ad Manager ad type
• Improvement: switch Google Analytics integration from using analytics.js and the measurement protocol to gtag.js and custom event to support GA4 measurement IDs
• Improvement: improve compatibility with delay JavaScript functionality from plugins like WP Rocket and Complianz
• Improvement: add unexpected output of ajax-handler.php to admin notice
• Improvement: add rel="noopener" if an ad link is supposed to open in a new target
• Fix: correct condition for showing/hiding cloaking checkbox on URLs
• Fix: ensure Ad Admin can save tracking options.
• Fix: correct undefined function in JavaScript when tracking with Google Analytics
• Fix: show tomorrow's day for timezones with high offset in the graph on ad edit pages

• Fix: checked if advanced-ads-pro/cache_busting is enqueued in deciding whether to add Pro-specific tracking code, instead of merely checking if Advanced Ads Pro is active

• fix grouped ads not getting tracked in delayed placement

• add additional bots that should not trigger tracking (FlyingPress, WP Rocket/preload, Sogou web spider, Seekport Crawler, Barkrowler)
• check for WP_Filesystem_Base before trying to use the filesystem
• improve activating/deactivating debugging option and check if file writable
• fix disabled tracking on AMP pages
• add possible to import and export options
• fix JS type error in click-tracking when closing an ad

• fix overwriting attributes set on link tag by the user
• fix escaped placeholders in external links, process all placeholders through link redirect

Tracking 2.0 is a major release. The various fixes and improvements can lead to changes in recorded impressions and clicks. See https://wpadvancedads.com/tracking-2-0/ for more details.

Major changes:

• the "JavaScript (AJAX)" method was highly improved and is now called Frontend and the default method for new sites
• the "On load" method is now called Database
• the "After page loaded" method was removed
• click tracking works on JavaScript-based ads and iframes
• target URLs in custom HTML code no longer need to be defined to being tracked
• cloak individual target URLs
• all Tracking methods work on AMP pages without requiring the Responsive add-on
• more bots are filtered out
• added option for "sponsored" attribute on links
• delayed ads, like popups, are tracked only when they displayed. Users no longer need to explicitly choose that behavior

For a full description of the changes and developers who used hooks and constants to adjust Tracking, please see https://wpadvancedads.com/tracking-2-0/.

• integrate with TCF 2.0 compatible consent management platforms
• fix parallel tracking for AJAX cache-busting

• added deprecation notice for "track after page loaded" method

• marked feature for tracking of events on external sites as deprecated
• moved certain settings to an Advanced section on the Tracking settings page
• fixes tracking of impressions in the wrong database table when an ad is used from another site in a multisite network

• fixed potential theme conflict. Please update to the latest Advanced Ads version as well
• fixed missing index issue

• fixed CTR on ad overview list
• fixed ad stats being summed up as "Deleted ads" on the Stats page if they are from another language as set up in the WPML plugin

• added option to track ads that have a trigger only when they show up (applies to users of the Sticky Ads and PopUp add-ons)
• prevent browsers from caching the click-tracking redirect
• decrease height of ad stats graph
• show click-through-rate on ad overview page
• fixed bug with Google Analytics tracking + Cache Busting + Lazy Load not tracking reliably

Build: 2022-04-31e4e88f