The Shrewd Gardener

I’ve just fixed an issue with my blog. Being such a clever bod, I assumed wrongly as it turned out, that I would have instant mastery over Wordpress.

As a result I dropped the code for Google Analytics into my site templates and watched the results roll in. Then it stopped and it then took me a little while to work out why… the reason was that I had upgraded to the latest version thus wiping out my changes to the code. I guess the clue should have been when Google Webmaster Tools asked me to re-verify but I was busy, mind on other things, and didn’t analyse the problem in the way I would at work.

The moral of the story then is this – when blogging with Wordpress use the plugins to add functions. There is a plugin for just about anything you can think of and many for services you have never even heard of.

I’m all sorted now and just a bit less blase!