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How to Quickly Install Google Analytics Global Site Tag in WordPress

lehidi — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 14:28:42 +0000

What is Google Analytics?

Google Analytics is a free tool you can use with your Google account to track and generate reports on website traffic. It records information about website visitors, which pages they visited, for how long, from where in the world, how they reached your website in the first place, and a whole lot more besides. It even integrates with Google Ads to couple information about paid acquisition too.

1. Sign up for Google Analytics

Visit Google Analytics, and (if you aren’t already) sign in using your Google Account.
Hit the Start Measuring or Set up for free button and you’ll be shown a screen where you can enter your account’s details.
Then select Web when asked what kind of analytics you want to use.
Lastly, you’ll be asked for the website’s name and its URL, after which you can hit Create.

Get Your Global Site Tag

Having created your analytics account, you’ll be given a Tracking ID (which will be something like UA-1111111111), plus a snippet of code called the Global Site Tag which looks like this:

<!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Ads: CONVERSION_ID -->
  <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-1111111111"></script>
  <script>
    window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
    function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}
    gtag('js', new Date());

    gtag('config','UA-1111111111');
  </script>

2. Use the MonsterInsights WordPress Plugin

The first method, and in my opinion the easiest and best method, is to use a plugin called MonsterInsights for WordPress.
In your WordPress admin, go to Plugins > Add New and search for monsterinsights. When you’ve found it, hit Install Now, and then Activate once that’s done.

Launch the MonsterInsights Setup Wizard
You’ll automatically be shown to a setup wizard where you can answer a bunch of questions to get things working, and you’ll be asked to connect MonsterInsights to your analytics account. You’ll be asked to log into your Google account, then authentication will be taken care of for you.

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how Easily Create Mailchimp Subscribe Form in WordPress

lehidi — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 14:04:09 +0000

Create a Mailchimp Subscribe Form in WordPress

Step 1: Install and Activate the WPForms Plugin

The first thing you’ll need to do is install and activate the WPForms plugin. For more details, see this step-by-step guide on how to install a plugin in WordPress.

Step 2: Install and Activate the Mailchimp Addon

Next, we need to activate the WPForms Mailchimp addon. Go to WPForms » Addons and find the Mailchimp Addon.
Install and activate the Mailchimp Addon.

Step 3: Create a Mailchimp Subscribe Form in WordPress

Once your WPForms Mailchimp addon is active, go to WPForms » Add New to create a new form.
On the setup screen, name your form and select the Newsletter Signup Form template.
Then, click on the field to make any changes. You can also click on a form field and drag it to rearrange the order on your Mailchimp subscribe form.
One of the most important form fields to consider adding to your Mailchimp signup form is the GDPR Agreement field.
This form field helps you create GDPR compliant forms by giving your site visitors an explicit way to agree to storing their personal information and sending them email marketing materials.
In order to use the GDPR form field, you’ll need to go to WPForms » Settings and click on the GDPR Enhancements checkbox.
By doing this, you’ll enable the GDPR enhancement features WPForms has available for you to make complying with GDPR that much easier.

Step 4: Connect Your Form to Mailchimp

To connect your newsletter signup form to Mailchimp, go to Marketing » Mailchimp.
You can get your Mailchimp API key by signing in to your Mailchimp account. Copy-paste your Mailchimp API Key in the required field.
Enter account name as per your choice, since this is for your reference only, and click on the Add button.
After clicking, one more pop will appear asking to Enter a connection nickname. Here also you can add any name as per your choice.

Step 5: Configure Your Subscribe Form Notifications

Notifications are a great way to send an email whenever your subscribe form is submitted on your website.
You can send an email to yourself, which WPForms does automatically unless you disable form notifications.
You can also send a notification to a member of your team by adding their email to the Send to Email Address field.
In addition, if you use smart tags, you can even send a form notification to your site visitor to let them know their form has been received.
For help with this step, check out our documentation on how to set up form notifications in WordPress.

Step 6: Configure Your Subscribe Form Confirmations

Confirmations are a great way to let your site visitors know immediately that their form has been submitted.

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MonsterInsights’ eCommerce Addon Integration with GiveWP and Restricted Content Pro

lehidi — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 13:41:09 +0000

MonsterInsights has been announcing a lot of new features recently and one of them was the eCommerce tracking on websites powered by GiveWP and Restricted Content Pro plugins. Alright if you have no idea about what they are, let me explain to you.

GiveWP is one of the best WordPress donation plugin available in the market and Restricted Content Pro Plugin is one of the Popular Membership Plugin for WordPress through which you can easily share some exclusive offers and contents with your members. You can also easily manage users from your WordPress dashboard and also you can create membership levels.

So, guess what?, MonsterInsights now works seamlessly with GiveWP and Restricted Content pro extending its support to the new list of plugins. Well If you are new to MonsterInsights you can add this tracking to your website by installing the MonsterInsights plugin to your website from the plugin section on your WordPress dashboard or click the below link to download the MonsterInsights plugin, Once you have finished installing MonsterInsights or if you already use Monsterinsights, head to your MonsterInsights plugin from the dashboard. Remember that this feature comes in handy with the additional eCommerce addon. Now you can easily get your extension to your eCommerce tracking to the GiveWP and Restricted Content Pro with a single click. You can find those options under the eCommerce Tracking section on your MonsterInsights dashboard.

It’s just a click away and you don’t require a developer to do this process and you can easily track the performance of your GiveWP donation website or Restricted Content pro membership site. Not just this, but MonsterInsight’s has also announced the Project delight improvements.

Project Delight

MonsterInsights has announced project Delight improvements along with the MonsterInsights’ eCommerce Addon Integration with GiveWP and Restricted Content Pro announcement. Project Delight is all about the user experience. It makes sure that you are getting a delightful experience with MonsterInsights whenever you are using it. Alright, you may ask… what they have improved? They have improved

Your Dashboard design
Enhanced Compatibility
Reporting accuracy

With these updates, you can easily find the required data about your users and take a proper decision on how to grow your business further. The contextual insights feature makes it very easy to spot the reports and settings. With this update, you don’t get to click on different reports or settings options to get what you need and you know what the plugin will scroll and highlight the settings and reports for you.

The Rotation of the posts in the widget is also enhanced with this update and also you can provide a better view of what’s your best content for your audience. Alright, to know more about eCommerce tracking check out my article on MonsterInsights New E-commerce Tracking For WordPress. Well with that we have come to the end of MonsterInsights’ eCommerce Addon Integration with GiveWP and Restricted Content Pro announcements.

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