Comments on: How To Install Google Analytics On A WordPress Blog Without Using A Plugin

By: John Hoff

John Hoff — Sat, 07 May 2011 02:16:43 +0000

Hi Jennifer. That’s awesome. I’m glad it worked and you’re all set up. Thanks for leaving a nice comment.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 06 May 2011 17:45:16 +0000

This was a great article! Very easy to follow (esp. for technical illiterate folk like me!)

I had installed google analytics on my WP account the wrong way and couldn’t for the life of me figure out why it wasn’t working! I’m excited to see if this fixes the problem!

Thank you!

By: Avenir

Avenir — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:55:40 +0000

It Allows usage of custom variables in Google Analytics to track meta data on pages. Thanks for your support will try soon.

By: John Hoff

John Hoff — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 02:43:14 +0000

Hi Kevin.

Out of curiosity, what’s the difference by putting the code in the functions.php file?

By: Kevin Leary

Kevin Leary — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 21:37:32 +0000

For most of the WordPress sites I design I implement this basic Google Analytics function into functions.php to keep things lightweight and not dependent on plugins. The only extra feature added to Google Analytics is 404 error tracking, which I always add.

By: Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 18:16:02 +0000

“B) Contact your theme owner and ask them where you can put the code.”

Sounds good to me.

Cheers John

By: John Hoff

John Hoff — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:43:24 +0000

Hi Keith.

Themes these days are starting to get a lot more complicated code-wise in order to make it seem easier for users. While this is great for newbies, as you can imagine it makes it hard sometimes doing tutorials.

If it’s working for you, great, you’re done. If not, here’s what I’d do. Either:

A) Try putting the code in your header.php file just after the body tag
B) Contact your theme owner and ask them where you can put the code.

A) should work just fine though.

By: Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:35:58 +0000

Hi John
My footer.php doesn’t contain a closing body tag.
It ends with a php function.

Presumably I just paste the Google Analytics code after the end of the info in the footer.php.

By: free DSi points

free DSi points — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:33:30 +0000

There is some solid information in this post. I am in love with your blog so far. I’ve added the feed to my Google Reader RSS subscriptions and will give you a mentioning over at my blog. I did have an issue with how fast this post loaded. Might be an issue to check out.

By: boss

boss — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:44:43 +0000

Excellent tutorial. I don’t use google analytics, but I use the same method to place the tracker code of the software I do use.