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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.
$latest = "0.65";
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if ( $_GET['v'] != $latest ) {
echo('
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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!


May 7th, 2006 at 7:48 pm
re: a clean solution to filtering the sidebar, I see that the “Ultimate Google Analytics” plugin facilitates this by having the user manually edit their sidebar template to wrap the get_links call with a call to the uga plugin. not entirely “clean” I suppose, but a great option to have for folks who don’t mind editing their templates. chance of the Boakes GA plugin supporting similar?
May 7th, 2006 at 9:35 pm
May 16th, 2006 at 5:23 pm
May 19th, 2006 at 2:54 pm
May 26th, 2006 at 3:40 pm
I tried installing this plugin and got a Fatal error: Cannot access empty property…My ISP is using PHP5. Has anyone else seen this issue? Soultion? I would like to use this plugin.
May 26th, 2006 at 5:17 pm
Just a quick comment to say that 0.51 (and I assume earlier ones) don’t validate as XHTML 1.1. It’s the version=”0.51″ part that does it.
May 26th, 2006 at 6:32 pm
Hi Olly,
thanks for the pointer.
I’ve released 0.51v, which hopefully fixes that snafu.
May 28th, 2006 at 1:53 am
June 1st, 2006 at 2:55 pm
June 2nd, 2006 at 6:39 pm