Disable Google Analytics

I had problems initially with my setup as I had GA block running in a theme options text box (Genesis Theme Options in my case). Moving the GA block to run in functions.php then worked. Rather than just dumping the block on the documentation I put it into the main GA block like this:

Note: My GA doesn’t use the same cookies as you have listed instead inserts _utma etc, so replace with your cookies and your GA ID:

function google_analytics_tracking_code(){
	if ( is_allowed_cookie( '_utma' ) ){
  ?>

	<script type="text/javascript">
  var _gaq = _gaq || [];
  _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-X']);
  _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

  (function() {
    var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
    ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
  })();
</script>

<?php }
}

add_action('wp_footer', 'google_analytics_tracking_code');

• This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by John Hogan.

I have a similar problem and have autoptimize and w3totalcache installed. I am running the code as in the first post and although it works, it won’t update when I toggle the cookie on and off. Can anyone let me know the correct way to implement this the javascript way?

Thanks

It’s work with admin login ?

The “we could not verify the security token. Please try again” only happens on mobile device which is a known sporadic bug afaik. Works fine on pc

Hi Fernando, That is what I thought. Could you please share how I could bypass the caching issue by using the Javascript code and will this solve the issue?

Looking forward to V2. Thanks again for this great plugin. It has helped me a lot in getting ready for the GDPR!!

Hi Imloic. I removed the GADWP as I had issues with not beeing able to control the cookies. I now inject the GA code with the cookie allowed check straight into my header section:

<script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-XXXX-X"></script>
<script>
  if (is_allowed_cookie('_ga')) {
    window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
    function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}
    gtag('js', new Date());gtag('config', 'UA-XXXX-X', {"anonymize_ip":true,"allow_display_features":false,"link_attribution":false});
  }
</script>

I know it is a caching issue. Just need to find a solution as I do not want to remove my caching plugins 😉

@imloic

Does this also happen when logged in as admin?. Do you use a caching plugin?