Wow, what the heck were they thinking??

  • I don’t often leave negative reviews, but holy moley this is bad. I manage WordPress installs for clients and several have this plugin (formerly GADWP) installed. When I did the last round of upgrades I didn’t even think to check for issues with GA until the first of the month when we do routine checkups. Seriously, resetting the UA?? How was that a good idea?

    I feel terrible for anyone who doesn’t realize this happened and ends up losing months of website data before they fix it. All around, awful experience.

    I guess I can say the uninstall process was nice and at least you accepted feedback….

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  • Plugin Author chriscct7

    (@chriscct7)

    Hi there,
    For clarification the UA code is automatically transferred so it will keep tracking, the auth is for the backend reports, so if it’s not done you won’t lose any data, as the plugin keeps tracking until you have time to do the auth

    -Chris

    Thread Starter joeyoungblood

    (@joeyoungblood)

    Sorry your messages makes zero sense, what do you mean by “automatically transferred”? After upgrading the plugin the client’s GA account was no longer tracking data and a new UA code appeared on their site. I’ve deleted your plugin and have zero intention of ever returning. There is absolutely zero reasoning that is acceptable in shutting off a website owners access to their own analytics.

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