How to Add Google Analytics to WordPress

February 21, 2022

In this WordPress tutorial I will show you how I like to add Google Analytics code to all our websites.

Code Snippets Link:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/code-snippets/

Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction
1:00 Add code to Code Snippets
3:15 Frontend testing

Code Snippet:

				
					add_action( 'wp_head', function () { ?>

<!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics -->
<script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-XXXXXXXX-X"></script>
<script>
  window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
  function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}
  gtag('js', new Date());

  gtag('config', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-X');
</script>

<?php }, 1 );

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