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The plugin system on BBPress is still rather rudimentary (you create a folder called “my-plugins”) and any php that exists therein is considered to be an activated plugin. The good news here is, that (a) it works and (b) it’s so similar to the WordPress that many plugins will magically work without modification. My Google Analytics Plugin for Wordpress is (almost) one such example.

I was surprised, upon installing the forum at how many people were signing up, and I wanted to be able to monitor it’s popularity, so naturally I set about porting my existing plugin with a view to keeping it usable on both WordPress and BBPress platforms.

In total it required about three small code changes, and the upshot is that the same code can now be installed on BBPress and Wordpress.

The main difference is that if you’re using it on BBPress there is no nice user interface in which to set the uastring, you must do this by hand.

Instructions

1. Download this file
2. Edit line 27, changing $uastring = “UA-00000-0″; to whatever your ua string is.
3. Create a folder called “my-plugins” within your bbpress directory.
4. Save the file as “googleanalytics.php” to your my-plugins folder.

…and that’s all there is to it. Of course, it takes Google a few hours to actually show any results, so I have no idea if it’s working perfectly yet, but if you reload any forum page and scroll to the bottom of the source you can see the analytics code in place, doin’ it’s thing. :)