This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.
Installing the Plugin
(using the WordPress Admin Console)
- Go to the plugins section of your WordPress Admin Console, and click on 'add new'
- Search for "HubSpot" and click 'install' to install the plugin
(manually via FTP)
- Delete any existing 'hubspot' folder from the '/wp-content/plugins/' directory
- Upload the 'hubspot' folder to the '/wp-content/plugins/' directory
- Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
Configuring Analytics
- Look for the HubSpot section of your WordPress admin
- Click on settings to configure the HubSpot plugin to work for your portal.
- Your HubSpot Application Domain and Portal ID number are found in your HubSpot portal under Settings>Analytics>External Site Traffic Logging. The application domain can be found on the fifth line of the tracking code that looks like this var hs_ppa = "ssiskind.app101.hubspot.com";
- Your Application domain will also be in quotes, but will be unique to your portal's domain
- Your Portal ID number is displayed in grey text underneath verify tracking code.
- If you have not already set up a Feedburner feed for your blog you can set it up http://feedburner.google.com. Instructions for setting up Feedburner can be found here http://customers.hubspot.com/product-updates/bid/49734/Integrating-Feedburner-with-HubSpot
- After saving your settings, click on Dashboard under the HubSpot wordpress plugin options.
- Go to Analyze>Blog Analytics, and add your wordpress blog to be analyzed, follow the on screen instructions.
- Once blog analytics is finished crawling for data, you will see blog analytics populate.
- Keep in mind, if you use a comments engine other than wordpress default, comments may be unavailable in blog analytics.