Tracking code shows on front end?

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  • August 30, 2014 at 4:29 pm #13794

    gary@nectarbridge.com
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    Hi all

    Spot of bother here – I noticed that the tracking code shows up on the front end! I’m using the Modern child theme. I noticed this, entered a bogus code to a) verify that the code I was seeing on the front end was coming from the Geodirectory>general area of the control panel and b) make the screen shot.

    I’ve deleted my code for now, in case this is a security risk. Screenshot is attached. Halp! 🙂

    August 30, 2014 at 5:24 pm #13797

    Simone
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    Hello, silly question: did you past the full code? (maybe some tag is missing)

    August 30, 2014 at 6:11 pm #13804

    gary@nectarbridge.com
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    Simone

    Attached is a screenshot of where I’m entering the code: Geodirectory menu on WP>General>Google Analytics. Yellow highlight is where the UA code should go. I’ve used other plugins on more vanilla WP sites, and this format is always UA-XXXXXXX-XX.

    For example, I’ve frequently used this plugin:
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/googleanalytics/

    and the instructions read, in part:
    Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
    Add the web property ID from Google Analytics (UA-0000000-0) to the settings (Admin > Settings > Google Analytics)

    So I don’t think this field is (or should be) set up for the user to enter php coding or the like – all you should need is the Google code… if it’s invalid obviously it should either trap the error or just not work, but if the code is now displayed on the front end I think you’ve got a bug.

    August 30, 2014 at 7:16 pm #13817

    Paolo
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    Hi,

    sorry to say this, but you should never assume that a plugin should work like any another plugin or use references like that, because behind any plugin there is a different developer.

    In there you need to paste the whole tracking code that google provides

    Example:

    

    <script>
  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
  })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');

  ga('create', 'UA-52472672-1', 'auto');
  ga('send', 'pageview');

</script>
    

    Otherwise we would have wrote, paste the google analytics tracking ID (not code)
    

    Thx
    

		
	
    


    

			
				

    

	
    

		August 31, 2014 at 12:22 am

		
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    gary@nectarbridge.com
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    Paolo
    

    I was just trying to walk you through what I was thinking. A number of plugins just insert the UA code as a variable, since the rest of the code snippet is pretty much going to be the same. OK, that worked, or at least, doesn’t show on the front end. Thanks. 
    

    I would suggest that if you want the user to insert 8-10 lines of code a text area of similar size would help them get the picture.
    

		
	
    


    

			
				

    

	
    

		August 31, 2014 at 12:48 am

		
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    also, some listings display this…
    

		
	
    


    

			
				

    

	
    

		August 31, 2014 at 5:20 pm

		
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    Hi,
    

    that is just a php warning that shouldn’t be printed and should only be logged in your php error log. 
    

    Try adding this to your theme functions.php file after the opening 
    

    error_reporting(E_ERROR);
    

    Let us know,
    

    Thanks
    

		
	
    


    

			
				

    

	
    

		August 31, 2014 at 6:21 pm

		
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    gary@nectarbridge.com
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    OK – added with a comment right below the opening comment like so:
    

    

    <?php 
/*#############################################
HERE YOU CAN ADD YOUR OWN FUNCTIONS OR REPLACE FUNCTONS IN THE PARENT THEME
#############################################*/

/*suppress error reporting on the front end*/
error_reporting(E_ERROR);
    

    Seems to work – the error was only showing on brand new listings (I’m guessing that there is a calculation being made and when visits = 0 it’s trying to divide by it). I now get 
    

    Google Analytics (Last 30 days)
    
No stats yet
    

    Which is good – thanks.
    

		
	
    


    

			
				

    

	
    

		August 31, 2014 at 6:23 pm

		
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    excellent, I’ll mark this as solved.
    

    Thanks!
    

		
	
    


    

			
		
	
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