How to upgrade AdRotate Banner Manager to AdRotate Pro
You'll need a copy of AdRotate Pro to proceed with this guide. You can buy a license here.
From your dashboard
- Log in to your Wordpress or Classicpress dashboard and navigate to the Plugins dashboard page.
- On the Plugins page click Add New and select Upload.
- Upload the adrotate-pro.zip file and wait for Wordpress to tell you it's finished. This may take a few seconds.
- De-activate AdRotate Banner Manager.
- Activate AdRotate Professional.
- When activated, navigate to AdRotate Pro > Settings > License and activate your license to receive Premium Support, access to AdRotate Geo and Automatic Updates.
- Verify that all your ads and settings are intact.
- If you still have AdRotate Banner Manager installed you can follow the dashboard notification to remove it.
Upload via (s)FTP/webdav
- Access your hosting account using your favourite (s)FTP or webdav client.
- Navigate to /wp-content/plugins/.
- Unzip adrotate-pro.zip file and upload the resulting adrotate-pro folder to the plugins folder.
- Log in to your WordPress dashboard and navigate to the Plugins dashboard page.
- De-activate AdRotate Banner Manager.
- Activate AdRotate Professional.
- When activated, navigate to AdRotate Pro > Settings > License and activate your license to receive Premium Support, access to AdRotate Geo and Automatic Updates.
- Verify that all your ads, widgets and settings are intact.
- If you still have AdRotate Banner Manager installed you can follow the dashboard notification to remove it.
As a service
If you don't know how to upgrade from AdRotate Banner Manager to AdRotate Professional and you want me to do it for you, take a look at the Installation Service.
This professional service usually takes only 1 to 2 business days to complete.
Check your widgets
After activating AdRotate Professional, navigate to Appearance > Widgets and make sure your Widgets are still there. Because of a limitation in WordPress where widgets are tied to one plugin they may be disabled or gone.
AdRotate Professional tries to capture the existing AdRotate widgets. But this does not always work. If this happens to you, simply reconfigure your widgets with the AdRotate Professional widgets.
If you prefer to use the WordPress Text Widget or Gutenberg text block you can use that as well, in there you can use the Shortcodes from AdRotate.
If you do not have AdRotate Banner Manager installed you can follow the normal installation steps for installing AdRotate Pro, on this page.
