Today I started a test using Google Website Optimizer on WordPress. The manual way of doing this would mean you would need to create 3 different headers and input the correct tracking code in each. While it is not a ton of work, it is a pain in the butt. The better way to do this is of course a pluging. The problem is that most of the plug ins that I found do not work with WP 3.0 and above. Finally I found this one http://andreasnurbo.com/gwo-plugin. It worked well, but it is a little confusing to use. Instructions would certainly be nice. So I have it up and running. The data should start coming in a few hours so I will write a second blog to see if it is working properly.
Signed up For ClickTale
We are always looking for better ways to get data from the web. Clicktale is a pretty cool product that allows you to generate heatmaps of you site and find out what people are doing. There is a free trial. Check it out. www.clicktale.com
Adding WordPress 3.0 Menu support to your older site
I have come across this a few times when updating older sites to WordPress 3.0 that the fancy new menu system in WP3.0 doesn’t work. Fortunately, this is an easy fix. First off, you will be editing your functions.php file, so make a backup! Now, add this code to your funtions.php file: add_action( ‘init’, ‘register_my_menus’…
Having Multiple Footers in wordpress
Sometimes I like to have multiple footers for a site, or at least one for the homepage and one for the rest of the site. Fortunetly, wordpress makes this really easy to do. WordPress has a special template tag for including them into your theme: This function will accept only one parameter, a string, which…
