Where to put the code for StatCounter?

beegee1962
(@beegee1962)

9 years, 10 months ago

Maybe a stupid question, but I am not an experienced WordPress user.

I track the access to my website with statcounter. I put the code into the footer of my wordpress with the widgets feature and it works perfect when my site is opened on a PC. But the mobile sites are not tracked and statcounter gives me a warning that the tracking code is not installed for the mobile sites.

How and where can I tell Mobile Pack to include the code? I want to use simple HTML code:

<a title=”website statistics”
href=”http://statcounter.com/free-web-stats/”
target=”_blank”><img
src=”http://c.statcounter.com/xxxxxxx/0/xxxxxxx/1/”
alt=”website statistics” style=”border:none;”>

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mobile-pack/

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Plugin Contributor cborodescu
(@cborodescu)

9 years, 10 months ago

@beegee1962 We support Google Analytics (see Settings tab). You just need to copy-paste your Google Analytics ID, it looks something like UA-XXXXXXXX-X

Thread Starter beegee1962
(@beegee1962)

9 years, 10 months ago

I was not asking for Google Analytics, I was asking where to place the code for an independent website access counter. I am using Statcounter (check the link in my original post).

Anonymous User 13868920
(@anonymized-13868920)

9 years, 10 months ago

@beegee1962

The tracking code can go in the index file of the theme. You can find it under wordpress-mobile-pack/themes/base in your plugins folder.

Since the mobile web app uses the whole height of the screen (to mimic a native app), I wouldn’t recommend using tracking scripts that display images since they will introduce vertical scrolling. I don’t know if statcounter has a script that can be added in the <head> section, but if it does, I would recommend using that instead.

Thread Starter beegee1962
(@beegee1962)

9 years, 10 months ago

But if I put it there it will be overwritten with the next update of the theme.

Is there no safe location where it will survive a theme update?

Take it as a feature request.

Anonymous User 13868920
(@anonymized-13868920)

9 years, 10 months ago

@beegee1962

Sorry for the delay. You are right about the code being overwritten by a theme update. For now, the only solution is to modify the index file, but we will add a section in the admin panel for saving such codes.

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