WordPress Google Analytics Plugin

Posted by Aaron D. Campbell | Friday, February 23rd, 2007
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Version 1.2.3

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This plugin allows you to use the powerful Google Analytics to track your Wordpress stats. It’s easily configurable to:

Not log anything in the admin area
Log 404 errors as /404/{url}?referrer={referrer}
Log searches as /search/{search}?referrer={referrer}
Log outgoing links as /outgoing/{url}?referrer={referrer}
Not log any user roles (administrators, editors, authors, etc)

Changelog

06/11/2008: 1.2.2

Fixed problem with code affecting Admin Javascript such as the TinyMCE editor

06/08/2008: 1.2.1

Bug fix for the stats gathering

06/08/2008: 1.2.0

No longer parses outgoing links in the admin section.
Uses get_footer instead of wp_footer. Too many themes aren’t adding the wp_footer call.
Options page updated
Added optional anonymous statistics collection

04/23/2008: 1.1.0

Major revamp to work better with the new Google Tracking Code. It seems that outgoing links weren’t being tracked properly.

04/17/2008: 1.0.0

Released to wordpress.org repository

07/03/2007: Version 0.0.2

Fixed problem with themes that do not call wp_footer(). If you are reading this and you are a theme developer, USE THE HOOKS! That’s what they’re there for!
Updated how the admin section is handled

CommentsWordPress+Google+Analytics+Plugin2007-02-23+21%3A47%3A05Aaron+D.+Campbell to WordPress Google Analytics Plugin

studge
April 16, 2007

Great idea! I am going to give this a try, thanks.

Sebastian
June 30, 2007

Hi ! It seems the link to your file is broken.

Where can i download to try it ?

Aaron D. Campbell
July 1, 2007

Sorry, the links were broken from when I moved this from xavisys.com/blog to aaron.xavisys.com. They should be fixed now.

Jane
July 3, 2007

I have installed your plug in and entered my Google code in the Options section on wp, but after over an hour I am still being told that Google cannot find the code. Whenever I have used analytics before the code has activated within minutes, am I dong something wrong?

Aaron D. Campbell
July 3, 2007

Did you paste the whole code that Google provides? It should look like this:
<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-XXXXXXX-X"; urchinTracker(); </script>
You should see immediate results, meaning that you should see the Google Analytics code appear in the code of the site. If you don’t, send me the address to the site through the Xavisys contact us form, and I’ll take a look.

Aaron D. Campbell
July 3, 2007

As it turns out, the problem Jane was having was with her template, which did not include a wp_footer() call. She fixed her template, but I also made some changes to the plugin. If wp_footer is never called, it will use output buffering to insert the code just before your closing body tag.

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tayfun
April 22, 2008

super.

Ryan
April 22, 2008

I am an idiot at this stuff. I have analytics on my normal site (i did not install it myself, but i use it a lot), and i am trying to get it to work on the blog. Where (exactly) do I paste the code? There are many php pages on the theme editor. Any help would be appreciated.

Aaron D. Campbell
April 22, 2008

If you are using this plugin, you don’t need to mess with your theme. Install the plugin, then go into your admin section to settings and “Google Analytics.” Paste the Google supplied code in the box, and set the setting however you want. Click “Update Options”

Andrei
April 23, 2008

same problem as Jane .. i pasted the code and no response from Google Analytics .. pls help
thanks!

Andrei
April 23, 2008

problem solved .. is was google latency i suppose .. thx anyway!
cheers!

Aaron D. Campbell
April 23, 2008

Glad to hear it Andrei!

WordSkill
April 23, 2008

Aaron, thanks, a breeze to get working in 2.5. Keep up the good work.

brian jones
April 23, 2008

installed the plugin, set my options, pasted google code, yet they cant verify. I have tried both the “new tracking code” and the “legacy code”. will the plugin work with the new code? what do you think the issue is?

thanks

brian jones
April 23, 2008

never mind, the plugin conflicts with the slideshow on the front page and our galleries. i uninstall ed

thanks

Aaron D. Campbell
April 23, 2008

Brian: Sometimes it takes a while for Google to verify that they are receiving data, but if you view the source of a page, you should see the Google Analytics code being added to the page.

The plugin works with both the new and legacy code.

How exactly did it conflict? What did it do? I’ll send an E-Mail to you as well, so you can reply there if you prefer.

Ryan
April 23, 2008

Thanks. I do not know how i did not see that. It still does not work though. One question, my blog is located at myurl.com/blog. i already have analytics working on myurl.com. Do i need to register a different tracking address for myurl.com/blog????? Please help.
Ryan

Aaron D. Campbell
April 24, 2008

Ryan: No, you don’t need to register a different key for the same domain. You have checked the source code of a page on your blog to make sure? You should see either the Google code, or something like:

It hooks into the wp_footer hook, so you’ll need to make sure that your theme includes the proper wp_footer() call in the footer of the page (before the </body>).

Hopefully the last three lines of the footer.php file in your theme look like this:
<?php wp_footer(); ?> </body> </html>

Steve H
April 25, 2008

Thanks Aaron this is a great Plugin, just thought i’d post and say the last four lines of my footer looked like this:

Put in the line like so:

and everything appears to be working

Steve H
April 25, 2008

oops..

Thanks Aaron this is a great Plugin, just thought i’d post and say the last four lines of my footer looked like this:

Put in the line like so:

and everything appears to be working

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Robbie
May 18, 2008

Great plugin! An additional feature that I would be interested in would be to be able to block out certain IP address (or even better dynamic dns names) from reporting. That way my statistics won’t be skewed by my own viewing from home or work.

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chris russo
May 29, 2008

Good work ppl!!

Orange
May 30, 2008

Hi,

Great plug-in! Thanks for sharing!

I face a little problem with it. I have the blog on a dedicated domain (let’s call it http://www.myblueblog.com) and I have headers linking to this domain on a different site (let’s call it http://www.thatothersiteofmine.com). Now when the user clicks the banner on that other site and visits the blog, Google Analytics shows all page views originating from my blog site (www.myblueblog.com) which is wrong. Any idea what might be the cause?

Many-many thanks!

Aaron D. Campbell
May 31, 2008

Robbie: Thanks for the idea, I added it to my list of TODOs for this plugin!

Chris: Thanks.

Orange: I’m not sure I followed exactly, maybe you could contact me directly and give me links to the sites in question?

bliss
June 3, 2008

hi aaron,

i installed the plug-in and pasted the analytics code into the options area, but for some reason google analytics is telling me that the tracking code is not verified. i have the whole:

in my footer.php file and i can’t figure out the problem. help! (please)

Azra
June 3, 2008

I had a weird issue, when the google analytics plugin was enabled, tinymce was stuck in html editting mode.

Marcus
June 4, 2008

Hi. I’ve read all the posts here.

I wont get it to work. Ive waited, I’ve tried reinstalling everything and installing and wating again. It wont work. The code don’t appear in the template page as you say it would. I currently have my site being built so you cant explore it sorry. I use a theme and everything is up and running. But the plugin wont work.

What do you think the problem could be?

I have like 5 other sites on google analytics.

T. Bishop
June 5, 2008

Installed the Wordpress plugin and it works great after adding the
line before the in the footer.php file.

Thank you.

Caleido
June 10, 2008

OK…here’s my issue..
I’ve updated the plugin into the most updated version.
I’ve installed, tried both of analytics tracking code and it doesn’t work. The status in my analytics mentioned to be not verified. I don’t understand what’s the problem. I’ve checked the php code of footer.php and the code (footer.php())is there…
The only thing is I’m using others created template and can’t modify the template. there’s some docs at codex explaning about chmod and .htaccess file. I don’t really understand it at all and haven’t try anything yet.
Is there any possibility of this became the main issue why analytics code using this plugin doesn’t work??

Hoping for any enlightment…Thx

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ChuckMcB
June 13, 2008

Getting an error after updating to v1.2.2:

Warning: include_once(/xxx/public/wp-content/plugins/wp-google-analytics/) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: Inappropriate ioctl for device in /xxx/public/wp-settings.php on line 357

Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘/xxx/public/wp-content/plugins/wp-google-analytics/’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/xxx/apps/php5/lib/php/:/xxx/apps/php/lib/php/’) in /xxx/public/wp-settings.php on line 357

Aaron D. Campbell
June 13, 2008

ChuckMcB: It looks like that might be a problem with safe mode (something set up by your host), and as far as I know is not specific to my plugin. Try making sure that the permissions are right on the files, and if you updated using the automatic update option, be careful of using it on other plugins, or you could have the same problems with them.

zplits
June 13, 2008

Hello there everyone, I am completely new at wordpress. I have downloaded and activated your plugin in my wordpress blog. But when i log in to my google analytics account, in the status, google says Tracking code not verified.

Could you please help me on this? I’m a complete beginner.
Thanks in advance

Aaron D. Campbell
June 13, 2008

zplits: It can take a little time, I usually give it a day. However, depending on how you have the settings, you will also need to make sure that you visit your blog in such a way that the code it loaded. So, if you ignore admins and you are an admin, you will need to visit the site when not logged in to make the plugin load the Google JavaScript.

I visited the site you linked to, and the code is being inserted correctly, so now just give it a little time.

zplits
June 15, 2008

Hello Aaron, good day.
thank you very much. The script is already running. I really appreciate your help. thank you very much

Marko Kaartinen
June 17, 2008

I suggest that you change the code a bit.
There is a & sign in line 181 and to get valid xhtml code you should change it to &:
$char = (strpos($track['data'], ‘?’) === false)? ‘?’:'&’;

Marko Kaartinen
June 17, 2008

oh great… this allmost worked…
The change should be & amp;

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Augenmann
July 6, 2008

Hello together,

thanks for that great plugin! Just a short question:

In the Admin Area I did NOT checked ” Log outgoing links as /outgoing/{url}?referrer={referrer}”.

But in Google Analytics I find the following pageviews:

/outgoing/www.ulm.de?referer=http://www.test.de

Is this a bug or do I not understand the function?

Thanks and regards

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July 28, 2008

Howdy,

Love the plugin, just one quick question. No matter how many times I check the “Do not log Administrator|User roles when logged in”, it never stays checked. I really don’t feel like logging myself. Is this something unique to me?

Lea
July 30, 2008

Hi,
thanx for the plugin, but I have problems getting it to work:

in the settings -> google analytics menue I can insert my UA-string but not the whole .js-code. google analytics does not track my site and I really don’t understand where else to put the whole code beause you mentionend one doesn’t have to change anything in the template.

I would appreciate your friendly support.

Aaron D. Campbell
July 30, 2008

The whole code goes in that box.

Lea
July 31, 2008

Hi Aaron,
the following is all the only snippet from the code that can be putten in the box where it’s said: Analytics User Account:
+var gaJsH+ (without the +) there is no possibility to add more.
Perhaps I am blind but I can’t figure out another box where to put in the code.

Thx again for your help.

Aaron D. Campbell
July 31, 2008

You should see a config page like this: http://xavisys.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/google_analytics_plugin-1.png

Lea
July 31, 2008

*banging my head against the next wall*

Aaron, I donwloaded another google analytics plugin and when I tried to get help with installation, the good old google directed me to your site..

I understood suddenly with your screenshot. And of course I switched to your plugin which is in fact really easy to understand and handle

Sorry for not using my brain enough and thx for the great job!

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August 12, 2008

I have installed the plugin. Activated it. It does put the below code onto each page … but it is not being seen by google analytics - google is still telling me “Tracking Not Installed”

note that the script is appearing within a couple of tags - could this be the problem?

i also tried using the site scan on http://www.sitescanga.com/ (very handy tool) … this isn’t “seeing” my google analytics code either

var gaJsHost = ((”https:” == document.location.protocol) ? “https://ssl.” : “http://www.”);
document.write(unescape(”%3Cscript src=’” + gaJsHost + “google-analytics.com/ga.js’ type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E”));

var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(”UA-XXXXXXX-X”);
pageTracker._trackPageview();

Aaron D. Campbell
August 12, 2008

Karen: It looks to be working fine. It could take 24+ hours (but often is a fraction of that) before Google Analytics starts logging data and shows that the code is working.

Aaron D. Campbell
August 12, 2008

Karen: I’m not so sure on that sitecanga.com site either. I just checked xavisys.com and it says that the tracking code isn’t installed, but it definitely is and I’ve been using the stats it creates for quite some time.

Karen McCool
August 12, 2008

It is now working… It took a couple of hours for google to “find” my code. Looking at some of the youtube tutorials on google analytics, this appeared to happen within minutes… I guess that is no longer the case.

Thanks for the excellent plug-in!

danko
August 13, 2008

I am totaly new in wordpress, I try to aktivate google analitycs plug in but analitycs doesnt recognized him, can you help me?

Aaron D. Campbell
August 13, 2008

danko: As I just told Karen “It could take 24+ hours (but often is a fraction of that) before Google Analytics starts logging data and shows that the code is working.” It often takes at LEAST a few hours (depending on how much traffic your site is getting). That is completely normal.

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Raul
August 17, 2008

I have installed the plugin but nothing happens. I can’t see de ga.js code in the pages. My footer.php has wp_footer call.

Can you see where is the problem?. Do I have to add permission to files?

http://sitescanga.com/results/17b9ab376abbed4d09bb3820c787f1e7aa

Sorry for my bad english.

Best Regards,
Raul.

Aaron D. Campbell
August 17, 2008

Raul: You can’t trust sitescanga, but in your case it’s correct…you don’t have the code on your page. Make sure that the plugin has been uploaded and activated. Then make sure you copy/paste the WHOLE ga.js code from google (look through the comments here for plenty of examples). However, just so you know the plugin no longer uses the wp_footer hook because there were too many themes that didn’t fire the action like they should. It has used get_footer (fired by the get_footer function call) since version 1.2.0.

Raul
August 17, 2008

Hi Aaaron,

I use these theme:

http://cssrockstars.com/blog/free-wordpress-theme-charade/

I have checked the theme and it not call get_footer. I include the call function and now works!!! ^_^

http://sitescanga.com/results/1fa9acf44cdb81980d62dae48b781c8754

Thanks for your support.

Regards,
Raul.

Gennadiy Litvinyuk
August 18, 2008

Hi!

It seems that your plugin inserts tracking code (for outgoing links) into rss feeds too.

I think that it is little bit wrong…

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September 2, 2008

Thanks buddy, this is what I needed.

Regards,
Geo

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September 8, 2008

Thanks Dr. X.,

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Jonathan Wong
September 13, 2008

Great plugin, Aaron. Best Google Analytics plugin for Wordpress out there by far.

Any chance you will be able to help resolve the incompatibility between this plugin and the WP-Cache functionality in the WP-Super Cache plugin?

Thanks!

Юрий Стог
September 16, 2008

Пока еще полностью непонятно, что там происходит, но точно могу сказать, что это не в лучшую сторону!

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October 28, 2008

where’s the download link??

Aaron D. Campbell
October 28, 2008

The plugin posts are being re-worked in our new site design. Please find all the publicly released plugins in my WordPress.org profile.

TechConsumer
November 3, 2008

I’ll try it out. Thanks!

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November 12, 2008

Where do I get my google analytics code from?

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