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1. sharris203
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I would love if it were possible to track the current logged in username as metadata on downloads/clicks. Can I set this up as a custom variable?

   I'm thinking something like this may be possible:
   http://site.com/file.zip?username
   where [username] dynamically changes based on who is logged in.

   User meta plugin could assist in this:
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-meta-shortcodes/

   Any ideas?

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/

2. sharris203
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Solved.

   Using "Shortcode Exec PHP" plugin
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shortcode-exec-php/

   I made a shortcode [user_login] that returns:
   

   global $current_user;
   get_currentuserinfo();
   return $current_user->user_login;

   Looking at the standard Google Analytics link tracking code:
   http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55527

   I put the shortcode [user_login] in the link:
   <a href="/file.zip" onClick="recordOutboundLink(this, '[user_login]', 'file.zip');return false;">Download</a>

   Works! Maybe this can be simplified further using settings within the plugin to add [user_login] to every link on the entire site...

3. sharris203
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   One step closer... the shortcode above isn't handled properly when used within this plugin. This is how links turn out, more or less:

   <a onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackPageview','[user_login]/download/mysite.com/file.zip']);" href="http://mysite.com/file.zip">Download</a>
   Is there a way to edit the plugin to escapes the [user_login] shortcode?

   I think it could also work easily like this:
   <a id="[user_login]" href="/file.zip">Download</a>
   if G.A. tracks the id="" part.

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