{"id":293,"date":"2014-04-04T12:59:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T17:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/help\/?p=293"},"modified":"2016-04-04T13:10:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T18:10:25","slug":"how-do-i-add-google-analytics-to-my-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/help\/how-do-i-add-google-analytics-to-my-website\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I add Google Analytics to my website?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To start collecting basic data for your my.vanderbilt.edu website, you will need to create a new Google\u00a0Analytics account if you do not have one. Visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/google.com\/analytics\" target=\"_blank\">google.com\/analytics<\/a>, click the\u00a0Sign in to\u00a0Analytics button (top right), and follow the on-screen instructions. Set\u00a0up a property in the account you have created.<\/p>\n<p>You will need to copy the tracking code from your new analytics account &#8212; it will look something like this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"TrackingCodeExample\" src=\"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/808\n3308\/2014\/04\/TrackingCodeExample.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"294\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Using a Vanderbilt theme?<\/h2>\n<p>If you are using of the Vanderbilt Brand themes &#8212; then you can add in your Google Analytics tracking code in the Vanderbilt Brand control panel (found via the Appearance tab on the left of the WordPress Dashboard.)<\/p>\n<p>Click on the FOOTER option &#8212; and paste the GA tracking code in the appropriate box and Save.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"PasteGACode\" src=\"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/808\n3308\/2014\/04\/PasteGACode-650x546.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Using the 2010 WordPress theme?<\/h2>\n<p>Activate the Google Analytics for WordPress plugin &#8212; and follow the on screen directions for turning on analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To start collecting basic data for your my.vanderbilt.edu website, you will need to create a new Google\u00a0Analytics account if you do not have one. Visit\u00a0google.com\/analytics, click the\u00a0Sign in to\u00a0Analytics button (top right), and follow the on-screen instructions. Set\u00a0up a property in the account you have created. You will need to copy the tracking code from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}