Month: April 2019

Note: this will make an entry for Chocolate show up in the Herby dashboard. The instructions may change when we make it so that you can get info from chocolate for all the mediated ad networks.

Nomenclature

We have two important things:

1. Games
2. Ad placements
3. (and ad networks, for large quantities of ‘two’)

We need to link the two of them together so that when an ad network tells us that a specific game placement showed X number of ads for Y dollars, we know which game earned the money and impressions.

Make It So

In this example, we are going to link Cops and Robbers Jailbreak with its ad placement in Chocolate.

Go into Herby. I’m not sure if you need privileged permissions or not for this process. Go to Config -> Linked Accounts.

This will bring up a page showing all the ad networks. Find Chocolate in the list and click on it.

You should see something like this:

Click on the clipboard icon that says, ‘Get placement list’

We can see that we have information on a placement for Cops Vs Robbers: Jailbreak, but that it isn’t actually linked. [Also, by the way, ‘Linked ITR’ means ‘Linked In This Request’, meaning, the linked was done automatically just now because you hit the clipboard button. Some ad networks can do this, and some can, depending on whether there is enough information to tell which game the placement corresponds to.]

Next, we are going to the page for the game that we care about. From the side menu, go to Config -> Games, and then click on your game of interest.

If you scroll down, you’ll see a list of ad networks and placements that are associated with the given game. Chocolate is not in the list. We’re going to click on the ‘Add Existing Placement’ button.

Once you do that, you’ll see more placements than you can shake a stick at! Type in some sort of filter, find your placement, and hit the ‘plus’ button beside it.

You’ll be greeted with success:

Review

Incidentally, if you go back to the linked placements page where we started this blog post, you’ll see that it is now linked,

and if you look at the revenue breakdown for the game by ad network, you’ll see the details.

[Note: these instructions need to be tested, but I believe they are correct.]

Before you start, you’ll need to know the person’s name and e-mail address.

To create users in the training blog,

1. sign into the training blog with an admin account.
2. On the sidebar menu, click on WP Membership -> Members.

3. Click on the ‘Add New’ button at the top.

4. Fill in the fields as follows:

• the standard username is a user’s first name followed by their last name, with no spaces, all letters in lowercase
• put in ‘changeme’ for the password
• set a membership level. [We don’t use this as much as we used to.]
• fill in the first and last name fields.

5. Hit the ‘Add New Member’ button at the bottom.

6. Tell the user that they can log in to http://iactivebooks.aeriacanada.com using <username> and <password>, and to then go to http://iactivebooks.aeriacanada.com/wp-admin/profile.php and click on ‘Generate Password’, and ‘Update Profile’.

Note: There seem to be two different places to log in; one that lets you read articles, and one that lets you write articles. It’s annoying!