I hate unexpected pop-up windows. So recently when a client wanted some sort of pop up on their site to highlight a product, after discussing options and my views, we decided to trial the free Pageear PagePeel Banner, a slick sort of pop up window plugin that opens when your visitor hovers over the ‘peel’ at the top right of this page, for instance.

Installation Of Pageear Plugin

Pageear Plugin easy to install with few problems – and here are English instructions. First download the plugin, and upload it into your Wordpress 2.5 plugins folder. Activate it. Then in the Admin > Plugins > Pageear-config (at the top of the page!) specify the configuration you want.

Our PageEar Configuration

Description Value
Mirror image (Mirror Image Your Advert) – Yes Or No
Fade in pageear if image completely loaded (off, 1=slow, 5=fast )
Movement speed of small pageear (1=fast, 4=slow )
Color of pagecorner in RGB (e.g. white=ffffff,black=000000)
URL to open on pageear click
Browser target (new) or self (self)
Opens pageear automaticly in x seconds
Seconds until pageear close after openOnLoad
Set direction of pageear in left or right top browser corner (lt: left | rt: right )
Small pageear image (jpg, 100×100 pixel)
Big pageear image (jpg, 500×500 pixel)
Resize images to correct width (100px and 500px)
I like the pageear and want to support it with a backlink

Yes, you’ll need to make two images, a small one, and a large one, with your advert. You can see we’re plugging the upcoming Edinburgh SEO Class in ours. :)

Wordpress Template Modifications

To activate, you’ll need to insert the following in the <head>:

<script
src="http://www.blogurl.com/wp-content/plugins/pageear/AC_OETags.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
<script
src="http://www.blogurl.com/wp-content/plugins/pageear/pageear.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>

and you’ll also need to include the following in the body tag somewhere;

<script type="text/javascript">writeObjects();</script>

….. and that’s it. A page peel pop up banner for your wordpress theme, a corner ad, that is activated when a visitor hovers over the page peel – we thought we’d trial it for a while.

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