@arty If your theme doesn’t have a admin panel that asks for it, then you put the code in the footer.php template before the < / body > tag of the theme which you can access & edit using the Editor option under Appearance.

@kristi-hines Thanks guys!

I checked and this is all I have:

The W.P. Dashboard has theme > editor > and then a RHS panel with a list of templates including a ‘fotter.php’.

however, when I opened the footer.php there was nowhere I could find the < / body > tag.

Is this right? I can’t find any admin panel either…sigh.

AB

@arty What theme? See if there is an options panel for it – sometimes there will just be a simple settings box for your analytics code.

You could use the Google Analyticator plugin and have it do it for you. 

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analyticator/

@erikdeckers @kristi-hines @glengorham

Am using the twenty eleven theme with the header turned off.

I copied and pasted the code from Google analytics immediately before the closing /head tag on the ‘header’ file as advised, am just waiting for some activity to register and see if it is all working.

i don’t know how to turn off the silly ‘comments’ thing on my pages, I don’t want to build a blog here where people comment on posts, I just want a website.

Anyone know how to turn off the comments thing?

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AB

@arty It usually takes 24 hours before you’ll see any activity in Google Analytics.  As far as page comments, there is a setting on each page you create to turn off comments under the Discussion section.  If you don’t see that option, click on the Screen Options at the top right of your dashboard and make sure Discussion is checked.  

@arty Recent Posts is a part of your sidebar widgets.  If you go to Appearance > Widgets, you will either see a Recent Posts widget under your sidebar or no widgets (meaning that the Recent Posts is a default one with the theme).  If it’s there, just click on it then click the Delete link.  If it’s not there, then add some widgets of your own and that should get rid of the defaults. 

@kristi-hines

Oh yeah and my social media buttons all just dissapeared, same thing as the contact form widget, can’t get it on there no matter what I try.

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AB

@erikdeckers

Thank you for your help, really, but I am soooooo over Wordpress.

Ok, I have really tried, as you have all seen I have been busy working, spending my time, hours for two weeks now online, doing tutorials, using this forum, trying, trying and I am at less than when I started. AAAAAARGGGHH.

I am stuck with a stupid Twenty Eleven or whatever it is theme, can’t edit it, and don’t have a contact form or social media buttons and can;t put them on.

Whenever I try and change themes the screen goes white, nothing works other than the tewnty theme now, I put this down to sorcery.

I’m giving up, have launched the crappy WP site already as is, no more time on this. Unless I want to un-install WP totally and re-download it and upload it and start putting all my plug ins and preferences back in which, has taken two weeks as I said.

Not a fan.

Thank you.

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AB

@arty who is hosting your site? As in godaddy, hostgator, bubba’s telco or?

@arty Something didn’t go right – I don’t see the analytics code when I view your source.  

@kristi-hines @erikdeckers

I just clicked ‘view source’ on my webpage and had a look.

Then I went back to WP and clicked through all of the ‘Appearance – Editor – Edit Themes’ one by one.

None of them are like the code I see on the page including the ‘header’ theme or any other in WP.

I don’t understand this.

I copied and pasted the:

<script type=”text/javascript”>

  var _gaq = _gaq || [];
  _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X']);
  _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

  (function() {
    var ga = document.createElement(‘script’); ga.type = ‘text/javascript’; ga.async = true;
    ga.src = (‘https:’ == document.location.protocol ? ‘https://ssl‘ : ‘http://www‘) + ‘.google-analytics.com/ga.js’;
    var s = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
  })();

</script>

Code into the ‘header’ theme before both closing /head statements as suggested.

Something else perhaps?

@erikdeckers

Thanks Erik,

I will just wait another 24 hours and see if this thing works and then get back to you.

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AB