Google Analytics WordPress Plugin

Posted by Robert Love on February 1, 2007 in WordPress Plugins, Software

The Google Analytics WordPress Plugin adds your Google Analytics tracking code to your WordPress website without having to modify your theme. Simply install the Google Analytics WordPress Plugin, enter your account code in the Google Analytics Options page, and your tracking code will be automatically inserted into every page on your website.

Download

sd-google-analytics-1_0.zip (3Kb)

Installation

  1. Upload the plugin to the ‘wp-content/plugins’ folder in your WordPress directory
  2. Activate the plugin via the ‘Plugins’ admin panel
  3. Go to Options > Google Analytics and enter your Google Analytics user account code (_uacct)

Note: After downloading the Google Analytics WordPress Plugin, extract the ZIP package and open the readme.txt file. The readme file contains full instructions and an FAQ.

Where can I find my user account code?

Your user account code takes the form UA-xxxx-x. To access your user account code:

  1. Sign in to Google Analytics
  2. From the Analytics Settings page, find the profile for which you would like to retrieve the user account code. Please note that your user account code is profile-specific.
  3. From that profile’s Settings column, click Edit
  4. At the top right of the Main Website Profile Information box, click Check Status
  5. Your user account code can be copied and pasted from the text box containing your tracking code in the Instructions for adding tracking section

1 Comment on Google Analytics WordPress Plugin

By tdzurilla on August 6, 2007 at 3:14 am

Hello,

I really like the plug in. One little problem.

On my site www.theimageoctopus.net the widget worked fine for the first few days, but now it does not seem to be appearing in the code.

I’ve tried activating and reactivating the widget, but this does not seem to work.

No structural changes have been made to the site since the installation of the plugin.

Any ideas?

Thanks

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I'm a web technologist, University lecturer and trainer based in Sydney, Australia. I'm particularly interested in standards-based web design and development using web standards such as XHTML, CSS and the DOM, and open-source software such as Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. When I'm not making websites, I like to tell other people how I think they should make websites. I have developed, and teach, a few training courses in web technologies offered through Learn4Life at The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. I'm a member of the W3C HTML Working Group, the Web Industry Professionals Association and the Web Standards Group and can be found espousing my opinions on forums and in mailing lists. My wife and son enjoy the benefits of my full-time employment as Senior Developer with News Digital Media, and they wouldn't mind at all if you wanted to contact me with yet a further opportunity for me to get no sleep.

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