Igor Benic

Ever had to add a bunch of images with links on them for your event/company partners? 
With Sponsors, you won’t have to use a text widget for that anymore. The companies and people that support you, your company or your event now get a separate place in the dashboar where you can add a link and an image for each of them. Then you add the Sponsors widget to the sidebar of your choosing and the linked images will show up there.
<h3>Shortcodes</h3>
** Sponsors ** 
The shortcode [sponsors] takes the following options: 
* images (yes|no, default: yes) 
* image_size (medium|full|thumbnail|large|[any registered image size], default: medium) 
* description (yes|no, default: no) 
* max (number, default: none, showing all entries) 
* title (yes|no, default: no) 
* category (category-slug, default: all) 
* with_categories (yes|no, default: no ) 
* category_title ( HTML tag for category title, default: h3) 
* size (small|medium|large|full, default: medium) 
* slider_image (full|default, default: full) – if full, the image will take full width 
* style (list|grid|slider, default: list) 
* order (ASC|DESC, default: ASC ) 
* orderby (menu_order|post_title|…, default: menu_order) 
* adaptiveheight (1|0, default: 1) – available for style=slider 
* autoplay (1|0, default: 1) – available for style=slider 
* autoplayspeed (number, default: 3000) – available for style=slider 
* arrows (1|0, default: 1 ) – available for style=slider 
* centermode (1|0, default: 0 ) – available for style=slider 
* dots (1|0, default: 0 ) – available for style=slider 
* infinite (1|0, default: 1 ) – available for style=slider 
* slidestoshow (number, default: 1 ) – available for style=slider 
* slidestoscroll (number, default: 1 ) – available for style=slider 
* variablewidth (number, default: 0 ) – available for style=slider 
* breakpoints (string) – available for style=slider
When with_categories is used, it will show sponsors under their appropriate categories. 
The attribute size is used to define the size of the columns. More style updates will come in future versions.
If you want to use the slider and show different number of images on different screen sizes, you can use the breakpoints attribute. 
For example, we want to show 3 images on large screens and slide 3 images on click. Then on 640px view, we want to show 2 and slide 2 images. And on 480px view, we want only 1 image and 1 image to slide. 
We would use the shortcode like this:
[sponsors style=slider arrows=1 image_size=full slidestoscroll=3 slidestoshow=3 breakpoints=480;1;1|640;2;2]
The attribute breakpoints uses format “screen_px;images_to_show;images_to_slide”. Then for multiple breakpoints, we separate them by “|”. 
In the above example we have separated 2 breakpoints 480px and 640px. 
For 480px, we set 1 for images to show and 1 for images to slide. 
For 640px, we set 2 for images to show and 2 for images to slide.
** Form ** 
This shortcode will display a form so potential sponsors can submit their information. 
Each Sponsor entered with that form will become a Draft so they won’t be displayed immediately. 
You can publish them, or send them an email to get their logo as well.
Shortcode [sponsors_acquisition_form] will allow it. Fields that are used here are:
<ul>
<li>Name</li>
<li>Email (so you can email them about their submission)</li>
<li>Description</li>
<li>Link</li>
</ul>
Available attributes:
<ul>
<li>fields – separate field keys with comma,</li>
<li>fields_labels – separate field labels with comma,</li>
<li>button – Button text.</li>
</ul>
Each defined field will be a textarea. For example, you can add more fields like this:
[sponsors_acquisition_form fields=about,what fields_labels=About,What?]
<h3>Planned Features</h3>
Here are some of the features planned for future versions:
<ul>
<li>Category ordering</li>
<li>Documentation Page</li>
<li>Front optimizations</li>
<li>Elementor Blocks</li>
</ul>
<h3>Simple Sponsorships</h3>
This plugin is fully compatible with <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-sponsorships/" rel="ugc">Simple Sponsorships</a>.
If you want to accept payments from sponsors on your site and have a way to define different packages and automate the whole process, try Simple Sponsorships.

Freemius

Simple Sponsorships is a complete Sponsorships manager plugin where you can:
<ul>
<li>accept sponsor requests</li>
<li>receive payments from approved sponsorships</li>
<li>manage and display Sponsors</li>
<li>create different sponsorship packages</li>
</ul>
If you want to handle payments differently, you can disable them and instruct sponsors with detailed information on how you will accept payments.
This plugin can help you manage your sponsors, sponsor requests and all other related sponsor data.
How this plugin works?
<ol>
<li>A potential sponsor comes to your page. It goes to the Sponsor Page (it will create a /sponsor page),</li>
<li>Fills the Sponsor Form and you get an email,</li>
<li>A Sponsorship is created which you can then approve or reject,</li>
<li>Once the Sponsorship is approved, the Sponsor is created from the provided information,</li>
<li>If you want to accept payments through your site, you can use PayPal and the Sponsor will use it to pay for Sponsorship,</li>
<li>Once paid, the Sponsorship will become active and the Sponsor can be added to a content</li>
</ol>
Simple Sponsorships, to handle Sponsors, is composed of different types of data:
<ul>
<li>Sponsors – can have more than 1 sponsorship. Edited and managed as regular posts, pages and similar,</li>
<li>Sponsorships – connected to a sponsor and a package. Holds payment data,</li>
<li>Packages – packages are like products in a shop. A sponsor can choose a package to purchase and then the Sponsorship is created.</li>
</ul>
Use Cases
Podcast Site 
You have a podcast site where you accept Sponsors for your episodes.
Each month has 2 episodes. 1 year (season) has 24 episodes in total. 1 Episode sponsorship is $100.
You don’t accept sponsorships for one episode but you actually have different packages:
<ol>
<li>Half Season: You create a package with a quantity of 12 and the amount of $1200.</li>
<li>Full Season: You create a package with a quantity of 24 and the amount of $2400.</li>
<li>Early-Bird Full Season: You create a package with a quantity of 24 and with a lower amount of $1800.</li>
</ol>
Once a sponsor pays for the Half Season, that sponsor will get an additional available quantity of 12. You can now assign this sponsor to 12 new episodes.
Event/WordCamp Site 
You have a WordCamp site where you accept Sponsors for the WordCamp, a single event.
There are different ways people can sponsor your event and what they get for it.
So here are some of the sponsorship packages you can create
<ol>
<li>Platinum: enter and explain this package. This sponsorship is a huge one and it will give the most exposure. The quantity is 1 and the amount is $5000.</li>
<li>Gold: Gold sponsor has less exposure than platinum but still, they even get a place in the WordCamp venue where they can show what they do. Quantity is 1 and the amount is $2000.</li>
<li>Freelancer: This sponsorship package is suited for people who want to get a little more exposure in the Thank you note of the WordCamp. The Quantity is 1 and the amount is $150.</li>
</ol>
Each sponsor will get an additional available quantity of 1, but you can still show them anywhere with the shortcodes. Since this sponsorships are global on the whole event, you don’t have to assign them to a content.
Planned Features
Some of the planned features to be implemented soon:
<ul>
<li>Package availability – option to disable a package from being purchased anymore. Still active, but can’t be purchased anymore.</li>
<li>Ability to add more packages to a single sponsorship (Sponsor can choose more than 1 package option)</li>
<li>Add more gateways</li>
<li>Setup Wizard – for a better 1st time setup</li>
</ul>

Simple Sponsorships

This plugin makes it very easy to setup a place where people can sponsor my  podcast. The sponsor requests are easy to manage in the WP dashboard. 

Great job!



Great way to self-host sponsors for your podcast!

It's a nice plugin and the free version does everything I need. Even the payment methods! 

Really nice plugin

Accept Sponsorships for any type of site, event or product. Manage & Display Sponsors.

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