Custom dimensions doesn't choose primary category

  • I’ve set up custom dimensions for categories and it appears to be working great except for one thing. When our writers choose multiple categories for a post, only one of them goes into the tracking code as dimension1 (which is what I’d expect), but it looks like the one that is chosen is not the “primary” category as set in WordPress, but the first one alphabetically. So if a post is categorised as both “Really important category” (marked as primary) and “Less important category”, it comes through to my Analytics as “Less important category” because L comes before R in the alphabet.

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  • Thread Starter Alex

    (@skud)

    Damn. I just realised that the “Primary category” feature is not in WordPress itself but is a part of the Yoast SEO plugin.

    I’m still a bit worried that just a single category ends up being reported to GA – this is likely to cause confusion. Not sure how you’d get around it, though, other than by calling on Yoast SEO! It seems like a fairly high proportion of people who are using custom dimensions in the Google Analytics Dashboard for WP plugin would also be using Yoast SEO, though. Maybe something to consider?

    Thread Starter Alex

    (@skud)

    And a further note: if you were interested in fetching the primary category from Yoast, it looks like it’s something like:

    $primary_term = new WPSEO_Primary_Term( $main_tax, $this->post->ID );

    Thread Starter Alex

    (@skud)

    Any response to this?

    +1

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