For all of you other WordPress geeks and theme whores (pardon my French) out there like me, I just have to make mention of something that is critically important:
When changing themes, make SURE your web analytics tracking code is carried over.
To give a wee-bit of insight, I learned this the hard way just recently. As you may have noticed, I started blogging pretty much every day of the work week. Missed Friday of last week since Thursday was my birthday (the big 24 – officially mid-twenties now. Scary.), but I felt I did pretty well.
Well I have been through almost 6 different themes in the 2-3 years I’ve had this site, and usually I am anal retentive when it comes to making sure that tracking code is carried over. Well, I got a bit lazy in the past 6 months, I guess.
Changed my theme using WooThemes, which has an admin Theme option for inputting footer scripts like tracking code. Well needless to say, I took that for granted and did not check the source of my pages to be sure. And frankly, at the time, tracking code wasn’t important. I just wanted to play with a new theme :)
Moral of the story: Check, check and check again to be sure that you have the correct tracking code placed wherever it needs to be on your pages.
I think I lost about 2 months worth of site data. Really nothing to get upset about, since I think I’m averaging a piddly 3-4 visits/day, but that’s still valuable data that I cannot get back.
Good thing I got it back on in time for my bday tho! I think I got a whopping 15 visits on the 4th and 5th! WooHoo! :-P
Stay classy.
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