[SOLVED] Google Analytics template only working on homepage

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A pull request has been raised on my Hugo Theme, Massively, which makes use of Hugo’s internal Google Analytics template rather than using a custom implementation:

However, this is only working on the homepage. The snippet is included in the root index.html as:

{{ template "_internal/google_analytics.html" . }}

The source of the following files shows Google Analytics only appearing on the homepage:

Why is this?

Thanks!

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I have implemented Google Analytics this way and it works on every page:

In config.toml:

googleAnalytics = "UA-123-45"

[params]
    env    = "PUBLIC"

In template:

{{ if and (eq .Site.Params.env "PUBLIC") (ne .Site.GoogleAnalytics "") }}
    {{ template "_internal/google_analytics_async.html" . }}
{{ end }}

Hope this helps.

Added explanation:
The if-condition reads like: If the Environment is “PUBLIC” and the GoogleAnalytics Parameter in config.toml is not empty include the internal template.

This is a double check which takes care that the internal template is not taken if there’s no Google Analytics ID even if the environment is PUBLIC.

Hope this makes sense…

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The reason it’s only showing on the home page is, it’s added only to the index.html template, but not to the single.html.

4

Ah of course! Thanks

5

Forgot to mention that I have the above snippet in the baseof.html so I have no need to put the snippet in single.html or other templates because they’re all using baseof.html.

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Thanks, that makes a lot of sense

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Glad it helped. Please see my additional remarks above under ‘Added explanation:’