CUNY Academic Commons

Hi Scott,

Just FYI, please use the plugin request form (under documents - http://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/documents/4 ) for these kinds of requests. Many thanks!

Best,

Matt

Hi - Here is the info:

QUESTIONS FOR THE PERSON REQUESTING THE PLUGIN/THEME
- What's the name of the plugin/theme?
Google Analytics for WordPress (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/)
- In a few words, what does it do?
Track your WordPress site easily and with lots of metadata: views per author & category, automatic tracking of outbound clicks and pageviews.
- How is the plugin/theme different from what's already provided on the Commons?
More robust than Firestats. Has many more features.
- What's the potential impact? Who will use it?
Group and individual bloggers interested in their traffic statistics
- Who initially made the request?
Manuel C. Co (http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/mcojr/)
- Who is the plugin author?
Yoast
- Say a little bit about the release history and popularity of the plugin. How many times has it been downloaded? When was it last updated?
It seems very popular – downloaded around 1,500 times per day. Compatible up to: 3.2.1
Last Updated: 2011-10-12 now in version 4.2.2 Downloads: 2,609,197

I've started to look into this issue because I've worked a little with GA in my own themes and framework.

Apparently tracking multiple GA accounts is possible from one page:

http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/asyncUsageGuide.html#MultipleCommands

I think we could create a simple "CAC_Analytics" plugin that would insert our tracking code on every page AS WELL AS offer each individual blog the ability to enable their own tracking code. It could even be expanded to offer tracking from other analytic services. I'll let you know once I've experimented and found out a little more.

Thanks, Dominic. FYI: our GA tracking code is currently hardcoded into wp-content/plugins/cac-sitewide-footer.php, which is network activated.

I planned on trying to tackle this one after I got #1401, #655 and #1249 knocked out. Will move it back to 1.4 when that time comes.

We recently discovered that we can easily have Google Analytics email statistical reports to members, and we have now advertised that service - http://news.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/06/23/introducing-google-analytics-for-your-blog/ . I'd like to suggest that we close this ticket, since I think we're now delivering more or less what the tickets asked for. Any objections?

And Scott, can you inform Manuel of this new feature? Many thanks.

I agree. I think if a user needs more information than what's included in these reports, we can revisit that particular issue if/when it comes up.

Thanks Matt - I just sent Manuel an email about the new functionality and a link to Brian's post.

Great -- many thanks, Scott.