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Track WooCommerce external/affiliate product link clicks in Google Analytics

  1. Install Google Analytics Plugin
  2. Add following code snippet in functions.php 
    /**
     * Track external/affiliate link clicks snippet
     */

    function candc_track_affiliate_clicks_script() {
    ?>
    <script>
    ;
    ( function( $ ) {
      "use strict";

      // current page host
      var baseURI = window.location.host;

      // click event on body
      $("p.cart").on("click", function(e) {

    	// abandon if link already aborted or analytics is not available
    	if (e.isDefaultPrevented() || typeof ga !== "function") return;

    	// abandon if no active link or link within domain
    	var link = $(e.target).closest("a");
    	if (link.length != 1 || baseURI == link[0].host) return;

    	// cancel event and record outbound link
    	e.preventDefault();
    	var href = link[0].href;
    	ga('send', {
    	  'hitType': 'event',
    	  'eventCategory': 'External Affiliate Link',
    	  'eventAction': 'clicked',
    	  'eventLabel': href,
    	  'hitCallback': loadPage
    	});

    	// redirect after one second if recording takes too long
    	setTimeout(loadPage, 1000);

    	// redirect to outbound page
    	function loadPage() {
    	  document.location = href;
    	}
      });	

      // Close anon function.
    }( jQuery ) );
    </script>
        <?php
    }
    add_action( 'wp_footer', 'candc_track_affiliate_clicks_script' );
  3. Add external affiliate product and check real time events!
  4. Done.

 

 

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How to create widget shortcode

Put this in functions.php

function widget($atts) {

global $wp_widget_factory;

extract(shortcode_atts(array(
    'widget_name' => FALSE
), $atts));

$widget_name = wp_specialchars($widget_name);

if (!is_a($wp_widget_factory->widgets[$widget_name], 'WP_Widget')):
    $wp_class = 'WP_Widget_'.ucwords(strtolower($class));

    if (!is_a($wp_widget_factory->widgets[$wp_class], 'WP_Widget')):
        return '&lt;p>'.sprintf(__("%s: Widget class not found. Make sure this widget exists and the class name is correct"),'&lt;strong>'.$class.'&lt;/strong>').'&lt;/p>';
    else:
        $class = $wp_class;
    endif;
endif;

ob_start();
the_widget($widget_name, $instance, array('widget_id'=>'arbitrary-instance-'.$id,
    'before_widget' => '',
    'after_widget' => '',
    'before_title' => '',
    'after_title' => ''
));
$output = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
return $output; 
}
add_shortcode('widget','widget');

Use shortcode as

[widget widget_name="Your_Custom_Widget"]