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Split testing pages with Wordpress blog?

by spartanic
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Anybody have any experience split testing Wordpress blogs? It doesn't seem to get along very well with Javascripts.

Disabling the visual editor is kind of useless since you don't actually get full html control of your blog posts and pages.
#blog #pages #split #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    Originally Posted by spartanic View Post

    Disabling the visual editor is kind of useless since you don't actually get full html control of your blog posts and pages.
    I always do but I don't switch between visual and html - I kill the Visual on start from my admin profile.
    When you just switch between them, the Visual monster is still turned on
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  • Profile picture of the author spartanic
    Tried it but I'm still getting the same problem. Wordpress is consistently adding their lineberaks in the posts even when you don't want it to.
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  • Profile picture of the author hjalte81
    Originally Posted by spartanic View Post

    Anybody have any experience split testing Wordpress blogs? It doesn't seem to get along very well with Javascripts.

    Disabling the visual editor is kind of useless since you don't actually get full html control of your blog posts and pages.
    You can splittest with google website optimizer and the GWO plugin...

    I made a video a while back, it's not 100% up-to-date, but the principles are more or less the same...

    If you get problems, try to disable the wysiwyg editor.


    let me know if you've any problems
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  • Profile picture of the author spartanic
    hjalte81, sounds awesome. I'll give this a try. However can you clarify a few things?

    Since the visitor isn't being taken to the conversion page then I'm assuming Google optimizer isn't recording these clicks, correct? And this is where Pretty Link comes in to record the clicks?

    Doesn't this kind of defeat the purpose of having the Optimizer plugin in the first place if Google Optimizer isn't giving you data on which page is winning or losing?
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    • Profile picture of the author hjalte81
      Originally Posted by spartanic View Post

      hjalte81, sounds awesome. I'll give this a try. However can you clarify a few things?

      Since the visitor isn't being taken to the conversion page then I'm assuming Google optimizer isn't recording these clicks, correct? And this is where Pretty Link comes in to record the clicks?

      Doesn't this kind of defeat the purpose of having the Optimizer plugin in the first place if Google Optimizer isn't giving you data on which page is winning or losing?
      So, your conversion goals are the links, correct?

      If you use that plugin to generate the code and stuff, then you can set a link as a conversion goal...

      And if everything else fails, just use your about me page as conversion goal.

      You can also set time as conversion goal (for example, 5 minutes on your page = 1 conversion), but that's a little more complicated...

      Maybe I should make a more detailed guide sometime soon...???
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Adams
    I have been working on, and nearly completed, a WordPress split testing plugin
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