I can understand the reason for wanting to track this kind of thing but I personally don't like the idea of theme authors tracking this data. I may be off base but if I were reviewing a theme with this kind of thing I wouldn't approve it. <br>
<br>On Tuesday, January 10, 2012, Robert Ambartsumov <<a href="mailto:robert6292@gmail.com">robert6292@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Well, why you have to have a tracking on the front end anyway? you could insert a tracking in the back end and this way you will know when the theme is activated the tracking is fired.<br>
><br>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Valeriu Tihai <<a href="mailto:valeriu@tihai.md">valeriu@tihai.md</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> Hello everyone,<br>> I'm the one who introduced campaign tracking code (Google Analytics).<br>
> Before I done this I have read several times Credit Links <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Credit_Links">http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Credit_Links</a><br>> I searched in this list if there have been previous discussion of such kind: <a href="http://bit.ly/xkzi59">http://bit.ly/xkzi59</a> <a href="http://bit.ly/zk7i23">http://bit.ly/zk7i23</a><br>
> I did not found that it is forbidden, so it is allowed.<br>> The aim is not tracking visitors from <a href="http://wordpress.org">wordpress.org</a>, I agree with Emil Uzelac that there are other ways to do this thing.<br>
> Instead I want to have a tracking campaign of the theme that will be installed on different blogs, and for this I need that the link from footer also to contain variables of the GA.<br>> But there is a problem ( Credit link, if used, is required to use either Theme URI or Author URI. ) that obliges me to put the same link also in style.css<br>
> If it is possible that credit link to contain variables GA and links for Theme Author and Author URI to be without these variables, so I am only for this solution, I can immediately prepare a new version that will contain these changes.<br>
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