The Soulpass Project

Yay! I finally received my Google Analytics invite today! So now I’ll be trying that for a while… From what I’ve heard, I think it will do just fine for me. Some people complain about the 24-hour wait before the stats are updated, but that doesn’t bother me. If I am that desperate to see what’s going on so quickly, I’ll check the Apache logs.

At first I added the Analytics code manually. Then I realized that it would be nice to track outbound links. Then I thought about how much of a pain it would be to go through and add the code to all of the links in this whole blog. Then I thought about writing a WordPress plugin to do it automatically. Then I remembered hearing about other Analytics plugins for WordPress. Then I decided to quit beginning my thoughts with “then I.” So I did some research on all the Analytics plugins I could find. And the winner of the “Best Google Analytics Plugin for WordPress” award iiiis:

Google Analyticator

I like the attention to detail, and the code is very well-written. I did make a few modifications, but they are mostly cosmetic. I’m going to submit those to the author and see if they will be included in a later version. If that doesn’t happen, I’ll just post the changes on here.

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