Client has two Wordpress Folders

[kbloemendaal]

My client has 2 WP folders (one is the main site, and one was for an added blog, don't ask me why they did it that way).

They sent me the login for Google Analytics, and the first thing I see is 2 profiles, one for the main site, and one for the blog. Doesn't the code in the head of the main page cover ALL the subdirectories too? I could see this if it were a subdomain, but not in a subdirectory.

Thanks in advance.

[evolvingSEO]

Ahh... good call John. If he wants everything under one analytics roof that's exactly what to do.

[kbloemendaal]

Ooh, good idea. Let me send an email to the webmaster and ask him to try that...

[dohertyjf]

Just a thought. I'm not sure you have to have two separate GA accounts in this case. Since you have two separate WP installs, couldn't you take the code that's on the main domain and also apply it to the /blog/ installation, using whatever plugin you're using?

The main issue you're running into, I think, is that the GA installation on the main site doesn't automatically work for the /blog/ because of two different installations.

[kbloemendaal]

I was thinking the same thing with the 2 different WP folders... out of my control and I can't see why either.

[evolvingSEO]

I could be wrong, but I think they are kept separate in that case.

The WP installation in the root directory (the main site) creates the header code for only the pages that WP installation creates - not all pages that happen to be in other subdirectories.

You're right, though I'm not sure why it was done that way? Maybe it was once just WP for the blog? Maybe they wanted to keep the design different?

But I think in this case the GA accounts are kept isolated. Hopefully I've understood the question. You can always just look at the source code or the analytics themselves too to tell.

-Dan