Adding Google Analytics event tracking

Resolved Andrija Kokanovic
(@kokan87)

9 years, 6 months ago

Hey guys,

I encountered a task of adding event tracking to subscribe forms (check out this: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/events).

I was wondering does this awesome plugin have a feature for adding the google analytics event tracking code? And if it doesnt – any hint on where should I look? Searched your knowledge base, no results :/

You might also think about adding that feature in the future releases 🙂

Tnx in advance,
Andrija

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Plugin Contributor yikesitskevin
(@yikesitskevin)

9 years, 6 months ago
Hi Andrija,

The plugin does not have built-in support for google analytics event tracking. However, there are a few different PHP- / WordPress-based action hooks that you could attach custom code to, including embedding JavaScript code. I would suggest checking out the process_form_submission.php page where we’ve included the following actions:
yikes-mailchimp-after-submission
yikes-mailchimp-after-submission-$form_id
yikes-mailchimp-form-submission
yikes-mailchimp-form-submission-$form_id

Would this help solve your current task?

Also, you’re not the first person to ask for Google Analytics (or similar software) support, so we hear you and will try to prioritize that.

Hope that helps,
Kevin.

Edit: Andrija, I answer a similar question in this thread (https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-subscribed-event/) and thought that may be worth reading through.
- This reply was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by yikesitskevin.
Thread Starter Andrija Kokanovic
(@kokan87)

9 years, 6 months ago

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for the heads up, I will look into these hooks.

It would be very helpful to have that option out of the box inside the plugin or at least well documented somewhere (knowledge base for example) like mc4wp has it.

Cheers,
Andrija

Plugin Contributor Tracy Levesque
(@liljimmi)

🏳️‍🌈 YIKES, Inc. Co-Owner

9 years, 6 months ago

Hi Andrija,

We have added this to our to-do list.

Thank you for the suggestion!
-Tracy
Thread Starter Andrija Kokanovic
(@kokan87)

9 years, 5 months ago
Tnx, Tracy, I appreciate it!

And for all of you that want to do this, this is how I solved it:

add this into functions.php (I used child theme):
```
function whatever_you_want(){ ?>
		<script>
			ga('send', {
			  hitType: 'event',
			  eventCategory: 'Category',
			  eventAction: 'Action',
			  eventLabel: 'Label'
			});
		</script>
	<?php 
add_action( 'yikes-mailchimp-after-submission-1', 'whatever_you_want' );
```
NOTE:
yikes-mailchimp-after-submission-1 – Replace the last number (1) with the ID of your form
- This reply was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by Andrija Kokanovic.
Plugin Contributor yikesitskevin
(@yikesitskevin)

9 years ago

Hi @kokan87,

If you’re still looking for it, better support for Google Analytics has been added.

Check out this article from our knowledge base: https://yikesplugins.com/support/knowledge-base/add-google-analytics-event-tracking/.

Cheers,
Kevin.

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