TextPress Google Analytics Widget

25th Feb 2008
2 min read
Tags:
TextPress,
TextPress Plugin

This was my first serious TextPress plugin.

This plugin will enable your TextPress install to be logged by Google Analytics.

It ads the necessary javascript code to log your blog, plus, it also logs the downloads of regular filenames which end with a specific extension; these extensions are defined by you; and also external links.

Configuration

The necessary configuration is:

UID: Google Analytics’ UID. The UID is needed for Google Analytics to log your website stats. Your UID can be found by looking in the JavaScript

Google Analytics gives you to put on your page. Look for your UID in between the javascript:
```
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-111111-11");
```
In this example you would put UA-11111-1 in the UID box.

There are other, more advanced configuration options:

Admin Logging: Disabling this option will prevent all logged in TextPress admins from showing up on your Google Analytics reports. A TextPress admin is defined as a user with a level 4 or higher.
Outbound Link Tracking: Disabling this option will turn off the tracking of outbound links. It's recommended not to disable this option unless you're a privacy advocate (now why would you be using Google Analytics in the first place?) or it's causing some kind of weird issue.
Google Analytics External Path Prefix: This will be the path shown on Google Analytics regarding external links. Consider the following link:
```
<a href="http://textpress.pocoo.org/">TextPress</a>
```
The above link will be shown as(for example):
```
/external/textpress.pocoo.org/
```
Outbound link tracking must be enabled for external links to be tracked.
Download Extensions To Track: Enter any extensions of files you would like to be tracked as a download. For example to track all MP3s and PDFs enter mp3,pdf. Outbound link tracking must be enabled for downloads to be tracked.
Tracking Domain Name: If you’re tracking multiple subdomains with the same Google Analytics profile, like what’s talked about here, enter your main domain here. For more info, please visit the previous link.

You can submit bugs and/or new features to DevNull.