/simple-google-analytics-plugin-wordpress

Create a simple google analytics plugin for wordpress

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Simple Google Analytics Plugin for Wordpress

  • 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, 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.