Tags: Google, Releases, Website, WordPress
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 24th, 2006 at 5:40 pm
I think that we have to wait 24 h Mathiu
October 24th, 2006 at 6:38 pm
Hi rdg/mathieu,
Once you have installed, configured and enabled the plugin, Analytics should confirm that it has found the tracking code and is “gathering data”.
It then takes a little while before the data starts to appear - usually around 4 to 8 hours.
Mathieu, looking at the source code on your blog I can see that you’ve enabled the plugin, but not configured it, scrool back up to the installation instructions and check the penultimate bullet point.
RDG, your code looks fine, you shoudl be seeing stats anytime soon.
October 24th, 2006 at 6:41 pm
The forum is up and running for technical help so I’m going to turn comments off from here. Trackbacks are still welcome of course :)
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