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Simple Google Analytics plugin for Wordpress

Posted on April 03, 2017

Create Google Analytics account overview

Google Analytics Solutions offer free and enterprise analytics tools to measure website, app, digital and offline data to gain customer insights.
To use Google Analytics, you have to sign up for Google Account, then using it to sign in Google Analytics.
Create an account, then make a property as a web application. You will have a ID for each application, example: UA-96583605-1. Then just use it below.

Code for Plugin

Code:

  <?php
  // Plugin Name: Simple Google Analytics Plugin for Wordpress
  // Description: Adds a Google analytics tracking code to the <head> of your theme, by hooking to wp_head.
  // Author: LP Devs
  // Version: 1.0
  function wp_lpdevs_google_analytics() {
    ?>
  <script>
    (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
    (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
    m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
    })(window,document,'script','https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');
    ga('create', 'Google-Analytics-ID', 'auto');
    ga('send', 'pageview');
  </script>
    <?php
  }
  add_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_lpdevs_google_analytics');

Replace Google-Analytics-ID with yours, such as: UA-96583605-1

How to use

Copy this file to /wp-content/plugins
After that, login to Wordpress Dashboard, choose Plugin. You will see this new plugin is listed. Just activate it.

This is a simple google analytics plugin for wordpress. And I use it for all of my websites. I hope it is helpful for you. If you have some questions, feel free to ask me.

Thanks, LP Devs

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Categories: Wordpress
Tags: Plugin Wordpress | Google Analytics

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