在Wordpress上使用Google Analytics（分析）进行作者跟踪

Question

I'm having a little trouble with getting author tracking set up on my google analytics. This is my code

        <script> 
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
      (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
      m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
      })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');

      ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXXX-XX', 'auto');
      ga('send', 'pageview', {
      'dimension1': '<?=$author?>'
    });

    </script>

Now, when I look at the data in my Google Analytics page, I see the author name as "" and not the actual authors

Answer 1

The loop

Are you sure you set it up in the wordpress loop? It really depends, where the variable is setted. If you have this at the beginning oif HTML page, the variable do not have to be available in this time.

Shorthand syntax

It seems to be correct shorthand <?=$author?> . But try full syntax <?php echo $author; ?> <?php echo $author; ?> .

Answer 2

This should work fine:

<script>
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
})(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');

ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXXX-1', 'auto');
<?php if (is_single()) :
    $post_author_id = get_post_field( 'post_author', $post_id ) ?>
ga('set', 'dimension1', '<?php echo get_the_author_meta('display_name', $post_author_id); ?>' );
<?php endif ?>
ga('send', 'pageview');
</script>