tomdude

Hi Everyone,

So a little background. I did the fork a few years ago for a few reasons but primarily b/c I have some other plugins that used GADWP as an API for Google data. When GADWP changed hands a few years back and the auth process was changed to require a third party api, several users expressed concerns with how their data was being shared and used. Thus the fork was done to provide the WP community with a “no strings attached” method for accessing Google Analytics data.

Unfortunately, the GAinWP plugin did not get much traction and with the pending release of Google Site Kit, GainWP went on the backburner. I do maintain it as it is used by a few of my clients. It works with the most recent version of WP.

If there is a need for the plugin, i.e. people will actually use it, I would be happy to keep it moving forward. I just don’t like maintaining code in oblivion. My plan has always been to keep this plugin free, as in both speech and beer. Of course, any help is also appreciated.

It sounds like there is a new need for the plugin.

Cheers,

Tom

For some of the more advanced tracking Intelligence needs a GA profile configured a specific way. For example, we add tracking for content authors and tags. GA has to be custom configured to store that type of data. If you look at the enhanced profile you will see custom dimension and metrics setup and configuration for things like WP site search tracking.

To make sure we don’t conflict with anything you might have done with an existing GA profile, the base profile, we create a separate enhanced profile. The data is then tracked in both accounts so you have the historical data of the base profile and the extended data of the enhanced profile.

There was a file name bug in v1.1.1. I fixed it in v1.1.2. Go ahead and update to the latest version and you will be able to delete the plugin.

Yes, by default. If the button was a link, the label would be the href of the link. But for a button Intelligence doesn’t have an automatic default.

You can set one though either using markup on the button or setting the label in the Intel Event settings.

If you can point me to the button(s) on your site you are trying to track I could better advise how to set a label.

There is a bug in v1.1.1 where I have a bad filename. I have it fixed in v1.2 which I will be rolling out shortly.

For now, you can just delete the files for the plugin to remove.

I solved one of these in the last update to Intelligence. There may be another one. So please verify and if you still see it, send me the file name and line number in the message.

Yes. There are a few different methods for setting up button tracking. The most common way to do it is to set up an Intelligence Event for tracking. To do this go to WP Admin > Intelligence > Settings > Events > Add event.

Most of the fields you can leave blank. This is an example of what to enter to track clicks on all buttons with the markup:

<button class="btn">Click me</button>

General:
Title: Button Click
Event trigger:
Selector: button
On Event: click
Availability:
Enable event on: All pages except those in the Page list below

You can adjust the settings if there are specific buttons you want to track. For example, if you want to track just buttons with the class “track-click”, you would change the Event trigger: Selector: “button.track-click”.

I put a fix in for this in the latest version.