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Hello!
I’m not affiliated with the developer of this plugin, but thought I would take a shot at answering your question.
Google Analytics will only track traffic for the pages on your site that have the script installed. That’s why Google advises you to paste it on all pages so that you will receive tracking info across your entire site.
I haven’t used this particular plugin, but the plugin itself should make it unnecessary for you to manually add the GA tracking script to each page on your site, which is part of the beauty of using a plugin to do this. It should also automatically add the script to new pages.
Once you enter your GA info using the plugin, you can confirm that your tracking script is installed by visiting one of your webpages, then right-click and choose View Page Source. Scroll down or use your browser’s “edit-find” function to look for your GA code (this is the part that starts with UA-). If it’s there, you should be good to go. Note that it may take up to 24 hours to start seeing traffic stats in your GA dashboard.
Best of luck to you!
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Creating a magazine: General advice?Hello!
My site was hacked a couple of years ago, so I understand what a pain is it to deal with that. Regarding your first question, I would recommend taking some basic measures to harden your site against attack, with probably the easiest and most important being to get rid of the “Admin” username. Use a strong password and avoid using the same password for your host or FTP login. You can also consider using two-factor authentication.
There are many plugins available that can help secure your site without too much effort on your part, such as those that lock users out after x number of unsuccessful login attempts (Login Lockdown is one). You can also find plugins that monitor your site such as WordFence. There are also third party sites and other services that provide a total solution. VaultPress is a great option since it’s made and supported by WordPress users for WordPress users.
What’s best for you depends on how comfortable you are with implementing some of the more technical aspects of securing your site, whether or not you want to be responsible for backing up and restoring your site in case of attack, and how much you want to spend to not have to worry about it. Although with hosting, you generally get what you pay for, just switching hosts is not going to fully secure your site unless they specifically claim to do so.
Regarding question #4, you could consider creating your own child theme. There are tons of tutorials online that will give you step-by-step directions, but basically, you create a child theme in which you modify only parts of your theme, such as applying different styling in the CSS. You can then safely update your parent theme without overwriting the few custom changes you have in your child theme. The Codex is a good place to start: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
Hope that helps! Also hoping some other users will chime in on your other questions. Good luck!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Text formattingHello! What version of WP are you running and what theme are you using? I’ve worked with themes before where the styling was such that it was hard to visually distinguish between regular and italicized text, so it may be a styling issue with your theme.
Are you having trouble with other formatting tags or just italics? You might want to try using
<em>instead of the<i>tag.