CUNY Academic Commons

Here's the link to the plugin in the wordpress.org repo: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-google-analytics/ It's probably hidden from search because it hasn't been updated in several years.

I don't know whether it even works anymore, as I know that GA changes its syntax occasionally. Even if it does, I would certainly be fine with hiding it from new users. Removing it for existing users is much more complicated, and I don't think it's worth doing.

It looks to me like the plugin gives more control over the GA tracking behavior than our single Settings > General field. According to the documentation, you can send custom variables to GA based on things like tag views. I'm not certain how useful this is. But you're correct that it doesn't give any interface on the WP Dashboard for viewing GA data.

I'm never eager to add new plugins, Google-associated or otherwise :-D But if there's demand, I think it would be OK to try out something like https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/. It seems well-regarded. It's not clear to me how much functionality is available in the free version, but maybe this is something you could assess after I install it? What do you think?

Thanks for doing this research, Scott!

In https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/8e701f0f3d73bb96cbc0031a133ee490ff5fa8c3 I've hidden the existing plugin, so that it will no longer be possible to activate it.

I've added google-analytics-for-wordpress in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/e996486a93086350ff9739f6e62aac6180e07f2e. I agree that it's annoying that the tabs are disabled in the free version, but it sounds like the free version has enough features to make it worthwhile to install.