Add PageEar PagePeel Banner To WordPress Blog
Blurb by Shaun Anderson (Hobo) -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.
NOTE – While it’s cool – I don’t use this plugin any more….
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 ) |
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| 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.
We've recently updated our comments policy and increased the number of comments a visitor has to make to get seo friendly links in comment signatures to reward long term readers and make it a bit harder for dofollow spammers ;) - I told you dofollow spamming wasn't a long term strategy....
Slightly off topic… but have you seen how well you rank in http://t4w.blogs.com/spinningaround/2008/06/the-uks-top-u-1.html ? Well done.
Hey Andrew not at all – thanks for the comment. Yeah I’d spotted it – it’s cool.
We get between about 1 to 1.5 thousand visitors a day at the moment from organic which generates a few decent leads a day for us, which is what I really care about.
I’d wager you have a little more to spend on advertising at Bigmouth than we do, so this non-paid traffic really helps us out
Pretty slick. I’ve seen that on other blogs, but didn’t realize it was a simple plugin. FYI, when I followed your instructions, I got a little messed up. I didn’t actually need to modify my template at all. The plugin actually does that on the fly. When I added the lines above to my template, the pluging tried adding all the banner graphics twice. Which kind of messed things up a bit. Once I removed my template changes, it worked like a charm. Thanks.
Cool plugin Shaun – certainly got my attention
Hello there!
I have installed the plug-in , working , but the ad shows in the footer instead of the top right corner. When I putting the Modifications codes… am getting the ad in a few places in my template ..
Any advice , any solution , any good man to help???
Thanks
Fantastic!
I’d found another plugin that did a similar, but that doesn’t work with MSIE.
And like Chris, I didn’t have to edit anything in my template.
Cheers,
I have used this plugin in the past but since upgrading to WordPress 2.6.3 the plugin won’t work. Any ideas on how to get it working again?
Looks like this plugin has gone a bit crazy. Had to uninstall it as it was making my site slow. I think the site http://www.blogurl.com that the javascript references has closed
I’ve not had any problems with Pageear, maybe it’s a compatibility problem with a new version of wordpress?