Random Banner
Display random image, SWF, or script ads across your WordPress site with this powerful, customizable, and user-friendly Random Banner plugin.
4.6(52 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 2 weeks agoAs of April 2026, Random Banner is a WordPress banner plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 52 reviews. It has been downloaded 119K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.3+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 11% this week. Top alternative: CookieAdmin – Cookie Consent Banner.
4.6/552 reviews
1.0K+active installs
119K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
Random Banner is a flexible WordPress plugin that enables you to display various types of banner ads (Image, SWF, or Script) randomly throughout your website. Whether you’re running ad campaigns or promoting content, this plugin offers powerful placement and control options.
Features
- Supports banner types: Image, SWF, and Script.
- Assign individual links to Image and SWF banners.
- Display banners randomly from the list uploaded on the settings page.
- Use shortcodes or widgets to place banners anywhere.
- Set custom titles via widget settings.
- Organize banners using categories.
- Display banners as sliders via widgets or shortcodes.
- Enable/disable banners on individual posts.
- Global enable/disable settings under Settings → Others.
- Option to hide banners for logged-in users.
- Show banner ads…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
I like it
by Eduardo J. Cabaleiro·4 years ago
I use this plugin to display random photos on a login page. It is very easy to use and works great. Thanks.
Disapointing – Pro version is not production grade
by mulli.bahr·5 years ago
Too many issues not resolved.
Not production grade.
Problems:
1. Conflict with Rest API
2. Conflict with other plugins, must deactivate to update other plugins
3. No database management. I have table with over 1,000,000 rows
4. No export to csv support
5. No support for ads on mobile – try to display the same ad on large & mobile.
6. Poor use of session id, causing issues.
7. No clear link customer – campaign – appearance&clicks
8. Poor grade on Google – Layout shift
I reported most of the above issues.
After 10 days of help – support is gone.
Worst of all, some issues were reported 2 years ago!
Developer promised to fix it…
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Not great – I uninstalled it after 1 hour of testing
by sarahdiggins·6 years ago·1 reply
This plugin only really works if you’re prepared to pay for the premium feature. It also is full of annoying popups that appear after every action telling you to upgrade. This is way too much and for that reason plus the fact that I was unable to do what I needed to do on the basic package, I uninstalled this within an hour of installing. I am now using Simple Banner which is honestly much better – it doesn’t pretend to be anything other than what it is and that’s a very effective rectangular banner plugin that has no annoying popups telling me to upgrade every time I use it.
Nice banners plugin
by zooks·6 years ago
I like this plugin, you can simply add banners to your widget areas.
Great plugin and really fast support
by neilho·6 years ago
The plugin was just what I needed. There was a small issue when I upgraded but the developer responded instantly and worked until it was fixed, even though it was very late.
Download Trends
Today: 19Yesterday: 17This week: 147Period total: 6K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.3+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
Version Adoption
v4.2
78.6%
v4.1
18.4%
v1.5
3.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
v 4.2.12 (20260315)
- Name Change
Contributors
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