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3,136 Pointssetting up analytics?
in the description for this course: Wordpress for website owners, you spoke about walking through setting up website analytics....this is the end of the course and there's nothing on setting up website analytics covered
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Sue Dough
35,800 PointsThere is a few ways.
- Paste the tracking code into your header.php
- Yoast https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/ or any other wordpress google analytics plugin.
- Putting in your functions.php file with a code like this below:
<?php add_action('wp_header', 'add_google_analytics');
function add_google_analytics() { ?>
// Paste your Google Analytics code here
<?php } ?>
There is pros and cons to every way:
- Is not the best way to do it but a "quick fix" . If you update or change your theme, chances are you will lose this code if its in the main theme file.
- 3rd parties could potentially gain access to data besides google by using a plugin which is a major con. The other major con is its a plugin! You don't want plugins when you don't have to.
- This is the best way in my opinion and probably the most professional. You could do it in a child theme as well so you don't lose any changes.