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there, I was wondering if there's a way to place the Google

Hello there,

I was wondering if there’s a way to place the Google Analytics in more customizable places.

We don’t want to use before/after page/posts; what kind of hook/code can we add to our theme template file to achieve this?

Fri, 21 Feb 2014 23:23:21

Ash
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Hello @in-mn

I hope you are well today and thanks for asking the question.

You can try the following:
```
add_action('wp_head', 'google_analytics');

function google_analytics() {

?>

//ADD YOUR ANALYTICS CODE HERE

<?php

}
```
You can add those codes in your functions.php in the theme, if you think your theme won’t be changed. Otherwise mu-plugins is the best solution. To use mu-plugins, go to /wp-content/ and find the folder with name ‘mu-plugins’. If there is no folder in that name, then create a folder, name it ‘mu-plugins’, create a file inside that, give any name you like and paste the code in there. You don’t need to activate that plugin. Mu-plugins means must use plugins, so it will be activated automatically always.

Hope it helps! Please feel free to ask more question if you have.

Cheers

Ash
in-mn
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Also, how can we remove analytics that are running network-wide from a subsite that’s running it’s own analytics?

Note: I’m using the Google Analytics+ plugin
Ash
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Ahh that makes more sense :slight_smile:

I am not aware of any option/hook with what you can place the code in different place.

Let me ask the developer @maniu for his valuable opinion.

Cheers

Ash
Maniu
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Hello @in-mn

You should be able to remove tracking code by adding this code to functions.php file you want it removed from:
```
global $google_analytics_async;

remove_action( 'wp_head', array( $google_analytics_async, 'tracking_code_output' ); );
```
Also you can use the same code to remove GA from head of all sites (by placing this code as mu-plugin) and then add it somewhere else with this:

add_action( 'wp_footer', array( $google_analytics_async, 'tracking_code_output' );

Sorry for late replay, notification about it went to spam:slight_frown:

Thanks,

Maniu

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