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Add Open Analytics to a WordPress site: where the snippet goes and how to verify it.

The short way

From your project folder, let the CLI detect WordPress and place the snippet itself:

terminal
npx getopen init

It asks for your tracking key (dashboard, your site, Settings, Installation), writes the tag, and prints which file it changed. Prefer to do it by hand? The steps below are what it does.

Manual steps

1. Paste the snippet before </head> in your theme's header template. On a block theme, use a header-scripts plugin or your theme's custom-code field instead; any mechanism that lands the tag in <head> is fine.

header.php
<script
  async
  src="https://c.getopen.so/oa.js"
  data-key="YOUR_TRACKING_KEY"
  data-collector="https://c.getopen.so"
></script>

2. A caching plugin may serve old HTML for a while; purge its cache after adding the tag.

3. Deploy (or run your dev server) and open the site once. The realtime view in your dashboard shows the visit within seconds; historical charts fill moments later.

Next

Route changes in a single-page app are tracked automatically, and the snippet never needs editing for updates. From here: custom events for the actions you care about, or script options for test mode and the privacy attributes.