google-analytics

You hook into the wp_footer and add your GA code. Here’s is how I would do it. Option 1: Get the current URL and counter check it with you selected URLs. add_action(‘wp_footer’, ‘wpse388915_custom_ga_code’, 99); function wpse388915_custom_ga_code() { $current_url = (is_ssl() ? ‘https://’ : ‘http://’) . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] . $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’]; switch($current_url) { case ‘www.example.com/page/path1’: case ‘www.example.com/page/path2’: case … Read more

You shouldn’t have a call to wp_head hook twice. Why does comments need its own call? Get rid of second call and see if that doesn’t break anything.

The easiest way would be to hook onto the login_footer action and output your GA code: <?php add_action( ‘login_footer’, ‘zzMzz_output_ga’ ); function zzMzz_output_ga() { ?> <!– Your Google analytics <script> tag here –> <?php }

So it means that there were some requests for given url processed by your site. Probably some user have requested it. This request is a search for phrase “free” in category “plus 5 results”

Try switching to a default theme like Twenty Twenty. If the tags are still running, you’ll know for sure they’re coming from a plugin. And if they’re not running, you’ll know the tags are somewhere in the theme. (It’s highly recommended to disable editing the theme directly in wp-admin. It is safer to FTP in … Read more

Sure, that’s possible. Are you including the GA-code anywhere on your site today? If not, you can add the following code to your theme’s functions.php-file: add_action(‘wp_head’, ‘add_google_analytics’); function add_google_analytics(){ global $post; if (is_page(‘page1’)){ ?> <!– Analytics code #1 –> <?php } else if (is_page(‘page2’)) { ?> <!– Analytics code #2 –> <?php } else { … Read more

It’s not tracked by default. Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin allows you to track post types (and categories and authors…) as a custom variable.

Tracking Published Date as Custom Variable for Google Analytics

Since your question is about installing the google analytics code in WordPress, I will highly recommend you to install the UA-XXXXXX-X tracking code before the closing head tag “</head>“. Just edit the theme header.php file. You don’t need to create a child theme unless you are using someone else’s theme that could potentialy be updated … Read more