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Add Google Analytic Code to WordPress Footer With add_action function

WRITTEN BY ON 19 Jul 2011
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Simple snippet to add script to your WordPress template footer without having to add it into your footer.php. You can use this to append Google Analytic Code by using add_action function and append your script to wp_footer. It's a cleaner solution so your html file always separate from Javascript.

PHP

Open functions.php and append the following. Of course, change $account to your google analytic account.

add_action('wp_footer', 'ga');

function ga() {

	$account = 'UA-1234567-8'; // your account id should look something like this.
	
	$code = "<script type=\"text/javascript\"> 
	 
	  var _gaq = _gaq || [];
	  _gaq.push(['_setAccount', '$account']);
	  _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
	 
	  (function() {
	    var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
	    ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
	    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
	  })();
	 
	</script>"; 
	
	echo $code;

}
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6 comments
frank 13 years ago
function.php vs footer.php.
Why do you think it's more difficult to edit footer.php and to paste a clean code from googleAnalytics? Stupid way!
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Kevin Liew 13 years ago
this is just a demonstration of how to append code with function.php.
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Adam 13 years ago
If I add this to my functions.php. It completely takes down my site.
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Kevin Liew 13 years ago
updated the code, need to escape the quotes for text/javascript
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Gkfy 13 years ago
would you like to create theme option for these?
regards,
Jenna
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gkfy.com 13 years ago
@frank : no this is not really stupid, if you are facing with wpmu, really useful when you want to put each separate analytics for the child blogs.
Cheers!

Jenna & Andhie
http://gkfy.com
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