How do I get it to work with Tag Manager & Analytics?

  • I’ve been trying to get this to work with tag manager and Google analytics but can’t. My team needs to measure engagement with the videos. I’ve looked into other YouTube lite solutions and devs have reported a similar issue, seems to be something related to enablejsapi parameter, anyway wondering how I can get this to work, perhaps I missed something in the implementation?

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  • Plugin Author Optimizing Matters

    (@optimizingmatters)

    LYTE does “know” the enablejsapi parameter, so try adding ?enablejsapi=1 parameter to your YouTube video links maybe?

    hope this helps,
    frank

    Thread Starter ladydev

    (@ladydev)

    Hi Frank,

    Yes, I’d already tried adding the parameter to the links etc, it doesn’t work. Can’t add it to an embed, causes an error, if I use the html block to add the link with the parameter it doesn’t cause an error but testing in tag manager the youtube tags are not firing. Also tried via the shortcodes as well, tags not firing in Tag Manager. I can confirm that the tags do fire and analytics updated when I do not use WP YouTube Lyte.

    Guess I am out of luck but this seems like something that should work, I can’t be the only one who needs to track youtube progress etc in tag manager and analytics. Other YouTube Lite versions I have tried, also do not work and looking at some forums this seems to be an issue but I have yet to find a solution.

    Thanks

    Plugin Author Optimizing Matters

    (@optimizingmatters)

    and when you try adding it using an old-fashioned httpv-link and using a # instead of a ?, e.g.

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SQkWbRublY#enablejsapi=1

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