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

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.

By: John Hoff

John Hoff — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:15:40 +0000

Hi Jeff,

That’s odd. The only thing I can think of is that your index page uses a different footer, maybe? You can try adding the code also to your Main Index page… the index.php file.

Other than that, I couldn’t be sure without really getting in a toying with it. If it doesn’t work for you, the plugin might be the better option for you.

By: jeff

jeff — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:28:47 +0000

Hi, John,

I did what you said and added the new (asynchronous) code to the footer file, and it works fine for all my blog’s internal pages. However for some reason the blog homepage still is still showing the ga.js code.

Any idea why that might be? (I had some other people working on my site prior to this, so that may be part of it…)

-Jeff

By: John Hoff

John Hoff — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:38:40 +0000

Hi Greg. Thanks, that’s nice to hear. We’ll see you soon.

By: greg

greg — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:23:49 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial. Your website is a goldmine of very useful information.
Will visit again.
Cheers.

By: Henry

Henry — Sat, 15 May 2010 13:54:21 +0000

The problem with your method is it doesn’t have the functionality which GA plugins provide. The most important feature is not logging Dashboard visits and admin visits.

To make this article very useful, you could write a simple piece of code which detects if the user is the blog owner (logged in), if so, that person isn’t tracked.

I have something simple I wrote myself, as I don’t like plugins either, if you would like it, just let me know.

Henry.

By: Debbie Yost

Debbie Yost — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:13:46 +0000

John,
This was very helpful! Thank you so much for directing me here and for actually having this post. I love video tutorials. They make things much easier for me to actually see what you are talking about. Just reading stuff is confusing at times. I’m a visual learner!

By: John Hoff

John Hoff — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:29:54 +0000

Hi Gary. Just once in the footer.php file will do just fine.

My pleasure and thanks for watching.

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:05:53 +0000

Do you have to install the code on each page of your blog, or only once on the appearance/editor/footer? You didn’t say.

Thanks for the great info!

Gary

By: John Hoff

John Hoff — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:37:07 +0000

Hi iris, that’s odd, you should be able to edit the footer.php file just fine. The only thing I can think of is your theme is blocking it somehow.

Are you using your own self-hosted WordPress blog, opposed to having a free one on WordPress.com?

If so, log into your web hosting file manager and navigate to your /wp-content/themes/your-theme-folder

You should then see the footer.php file in there. Use your control panel’s file editor to edit the footer.php file by clicking a check mark next to the file and then click “Edit” up at the top.

Then paste the code inside the file as I show in the tutorial, save, and close.