[Plugin: Google Analytics for WordPress] HowTo: Remove unwanted inserted space char from links

If outbound tracking is not used, the plugin still inserts an extra space at the end of link attributes (right after the “https://whatever”) like this:

<a href="https://whatever" >Whatever</a>

If you do not want that extra space char, locate this code in line 1187 of file googleanalytics.php, version 4.2.4:

return '<a ' . $matches[1] . 'href="' . $matches[2] . '//' . $matches[3] . '"' . ' ' . $matches[4] . '>' . $matches[5] . '</a>';

Replace with these two lines:

$matches_4_fix = ($matches[4] != '') ? ' ' . $matches[4] : '';
return '<a ' . $matches[1] . 'href="' . $matches[2] . '//' . $matches[3] . '"' . $matches_4_fix . '>' . $matches[5] . '</a>';

Then your links will look like this in HTML source:

<a href="https://whatever">Whatever</a>

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