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Google Analytics Plugin for Wordpress
November 14th, 2005, by Rich.

This is the first beta release of a WordPress plugin that can add Google Analytics to your website without you needing to code one single set of <>’s.
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I have it running on this site and it seems to be working just fine so far.
Installation instructions
To use it:
- If you have a previous version of the plugin, delete it.
Download this file- Rename the file
googleanalytics.phpand copy it to your/wp-content/pluginsdirectory. - Enable it on the plugins page.
- Enter your Google Analytics User Account string (it’ll be something like UA-12345-6. It appears when you “Add a channel”)
- That’s it.
You don’t need to look alter the code in any way to make it run; of course you’re welcome to improve it and send me any updates for inclusion.
Features
- Zero Coding
A zero coding install enables both the default tracking and the use of different channels for specific posts. - Outgoing links
Track which outgoing links your users click on - i.e. the ones that don’t traditionally register in your logs. Separate tracking streams for outbound links that are in the main article, comments, and comment author URL’s
- Multiple Channels
Assign a specific channel to any article by entering the channel ID as metadata. i.e. simply type “analytics” as the metadata field name and the channel ID as the value and you can run a channel for each specific post
Requested Features
- Filtering the Sidebar
WordPress provides hooks for filtering articles and comments, but not for filtering the sidebar and footer. Since the sidebar often includes the blogroll there are page-exit clicks that cannot be tracked. If anyoen has a clean solution to filtering the sidebar then please speak up! - 100% Point’n'Click UI
I’ve asked on the forums to see if there’s away to automate the retrieval of the account id, so hopefully the plugin can become a configuration free install.
Assign a different channel ID to each category.
Versions
A historical list of releases.
Contribute
Please neatly tuck any feedback, comments, suggestions & requests onto the forum!


October 3rd, 2006 at 11:41 pm
October 5th, 2006 at 8:22 pm
I have installed the plug-in, it says it has the tracking code installed but when I log in to google analytics there are no statistics tracked. whats up?
October 11th, 2006 at 4:30 pm
Why do I get
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/opmr/public_html/wp-admin/admin-header.php:16) in /home/opmr/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 2448
What can be the reason for that? Tried to find the answers in the post but no luck…
Thanks!
October 11th, 2006 at 4:56 pm
Hi Jean. It usually means there’s a space after the “?>” at the end of the plugin code, or in something else that you’ve edited. For example, see the codex.
October 13th, 2006 at 1:06 am
First, thanks for this nice plugin :)
When the user install Adblock and block Google Analytics, the original code will cause Javascript error:
echo("urchinTracker();\n");Just check if it has been loaded:
echo("if (window.urchinTracker) urchinTracker();\n");October 15th, 2006 at 10:47 am
October 19th, 2006 at 7:18 am
October 21st, 2006 at 4:16 am
October 21st, 2006 at 7:09 am
Hi -
First Excuse my poor english , i ‘m french.
Thank you for this excellent plugin , but in my blog google analytics don’t detect my code …
however installation is really easy .. i don’t understand the problem. Can you help me ?
Thanks you for your help :) And sorry for my mistakes :x
Amicalement.
October 24th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
I have the same problem as Mathieu