[theme-reviewers] Google Analytics Campaign Tracking Code OK on Author & Theme URI?

[Valeriu Tihai]

Hello everyone,

I'm the one who introduced campaign tracking code (Google Analytics).
Before I done this I have read several times Credit Links
http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Credit_Links
I searched in this list if there have been previous discussion of such
kind: http://bit.ly/xkzi59 http://bit.ly/zk7i23

I did not found that it is forbidden, so it is allowed.

The aim is not tracking visitors from wordpress.org, I agree with Emil
Uzelac that there are other ways to do this thing.

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.

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

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.

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On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:

> I would have to go with a "not-approved" resolution for any of these
> points.
> Although I can understand there may be the potential for the theme author
> to gain some data points by way of encoding the Google Analytic code, that
> too should not be done ... the only exception to the theme author using
> their analytic code would be as an example the end-user can easily disable
> or delete but also be "off by default". Also, IIRC, hard-coding GA code was
> discussed in the past and decided it would not be acceptable.
>
>
> Cais.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't believe that this is valid URI. Author URI: http://wplook.comalone yes and Theme URI:
>> http://wplook.com/dailypost
>>
>> There are other ways to track referrals from WordPress.org
>>
>> Emil
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Jim Mitchell <jim at jimmitchell.org> wrote:
>>
>>> A theme author has just submitted a new version of a theme I was
>>> reviewing for them, and in this version, they added some Google Analytics
>>> campaign tracking code to the Author & Theme URI in style.css (their
>>> previous version didn't have it):
>>>
>>> Author URIhttp://wplook.com/*
>>> ?utm_source=Blog&utm_medium=theme&utm_campaign=DailyPost*<http://wplook.com/?utm_source=Blog&utm_medium=theme&utm_campaign=DailyPost>
>>>
>>> Theme URIhttp://wplook.com/dailypost/*
>>> ?utm_source=Blog&utm_medium=theme&utm_campaign=DailyPost*<http://wplook.com/dailypost/?utm_source=Blog&utm_medium=theme&utm_campaign=DailyPost>
>>>
>>> I'm going to take a wild guess and say it _might_ be allowed, but not
>>> recommended, and ultimately not very useful since stats are kept on
>>> repository downloads already. I've not seen any other themes that do this,
>>> but of course, I didn't search the whole repository.
>>>
>>> The author also hard-coded the theme URI in the footer with GA campaign
>>> code. I'm going to say this is okay since there's no restriction placed on
>>> its removal.
>>>
>>> TIA for guidance, but mostly patience as I ask questions & learn the
>>> ropes...
>>>
>>> --Jim
>>>
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