Google Analytics & Wordpress

15 years ago

Hi Alan

I am not answering your above question but just asking if the analytics plugin would work for you? WordPress › Google Analytics for WordPress WordPress Plugins

Just a thought and because you have been helpful to me in the past

I also have a thread that I have just started asking if I can widen a wordpress theme so maybe you may have an answer to that

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Viv

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Alan Petersen

15 years ago

Hi Viv,

That looks like a nifty plugin! Thanks.

As to your question...usually on most themes I've used you can control/change that in the CSS file. So go to your theme editor and click on the stylesheet CSS file: style.css

Although it might vary depending on your theme, here is what mine looks like:

Code:

#container { 

background: #ffffff;

width: 860px;

text-align: left; 

margin: 20px auto 30px auto; 

border: 1px solid #cccccc;

With the CSS file you can change the font type, colors, background color, etc. Before you edit make sure you make a copy with notepad so you can revert back just in case.

Originally Posted by mistyone

Hi Alan

I am not answering your above question but just asking if the analytics plugin would work for you? WordPress › Google Analytics for WordPress WordPress Plugins

Just a thought and because you have been helpful to me in the past

I also have a thread that I have just started asking if I can widen a wordpress theme so maybe you may have an answer to that

Cheers
Viv

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GeorgeO7

15 years ago

Put the analytics code in the footer.php right before the </body> tag.

You can edit this file with a text editor and FTP it to the server.

Or you can edit it from WordPress>>Appearance>>Editor>>Footer (footer.php).

To use the WP editor you will need to make the file writable CHMOD 666.

George

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Alan Petersen

15 years ago

Originally Posted by GeorgeO7

Put the analytics code in the footer.php right before the </body> tag.

You can edit this file with a text editor and FTP it to the server.

Or you can edit it from WordPress>>Appearance>>Editor>>Footer (footer.php).

To use the WP editor you will need to make the file writable CHMOD 666.

George

Thanks George, I never thought to look in the footer file for body tags but there they are!

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carolwingert

15 years ago

I use the Ultimate Google Analytics plugin (ftp to your site) and then click on settings, click on Ultimate Analytics, and you type the # where indicated.

That's how I do mine!

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mistyone

15 years ago

Hi Alan

I had already had a play around in the style sheet but all it did was mess with the width of the post and content but it didn't widen the whole theme. It had some wide bits and some not, so it looked as though I would have had to stretch all the boxes if I knew which ones they were. I think I would have been playing around for a while until I found all the relative pieces of code. Maybe I might see if the flexibility2 theme, that I love working with, would work for this plugin but thanks for the more detailed description, it is exactly what this NEWBIE needs