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

[Robert Ambartsumov]

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.

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Valeriu Tihai <valeriu at tihai.md> wrote:

> 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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