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logent
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Due to the lack of response from my inquiry, I had to try an figure out the answer to my own question. After searching for an answer I found that my browser may be causing the issue. I use Firefox most of the time because of the convenience of use and found that the html coding for the Google Analytics tracking was not present in the page source view of the home page. ( Go to View-> then Page Source). Then I pulled up my site in the IE browser and low and behold the analytics tracking html coding was present. This still did not explain why the site was not being tracked. So based upon the Google instruction to paste the html coding just before the </body> tag. The only place I could determine where this coding should be placed was in the theme editors (footer.php template). Once I pasted the coding and updated I went back to Google Analytics and found that my site was now being tracked. Problem solved.
Is the plugin supposed to remove the need to enter the Google Analytics tracking code ? Or after installing the plugin, still need to paste the code ? very confused …
@logent – The plugin doesn’t insert the code if you’re logged in. This is to prevent Google analytics falsely detecting all your page views (which would give you skewed results).
@martg – It does insert the code automatically…you can check by looking at the page source. The problem though is that the code it inserts is slightly different from the google analytics default code. I’m not sure it works correctly at the moment. When I inserted the code by hand (the analytics code given by google), my tracking was working fine. When I used the plugin it wouldn’t detect any visits/pageviews.
Looking at the code it seems fine. The google code uses
try{
} catch(err)
which this plugin neglects. However it shouldn’t impact the functioning of the code itself. Give it 24 hours after installation to start tracking data (Google recommends 24 hours)
The Try Catch loop will be added in 2.9.2
