Title: Designed2Use GA Views
Author: Designed 2 Use
Published: <strong>26. Juni 2026</strong>
Last modified: 29. Juni 2026

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# Designed2Use GA Views

 Von [Designed 2 Use](https://profiles.wordpress.org/designed2use/)

[Herunterladen](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/designed2use-ga-views.2.0.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/designed2use-ga-views/#description)
 * [Rezensionen](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/designed2use-ga-views/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/designed2use-ga-views/#installation)
 * [Entwicklung](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/designed2use-ga-views/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/designed2use-ga-views/)

## Beschreibung

Designed2Use GA Views shows the Google Analytics 4 pageview total for a post or 
page using a simple shortcode. It is built so a visitor’s page load is never held
up by the slow Google API.

**How it fetches counts (hybrid model)**

 * A cached value is shown whenever one is fresh.
 * On a cache miss for a **recent** post (published within your live-fetch window),
   the count is fetched live with a short, fail-fast timeout over a narrow date 
   range (the post’s publish date to today) — fast because the query window is small.
 * On a cache miss for an **older** post, a background job is queued and the last
   stored value is shown immediately. The slow, history-heavy query runs off the
   request path.
 * Administrators can force a live refresh of the page they are viewing with `?d2ugav_refresh
   =1`.

**Features**

 * `[d2ugav_pageview]` shortcode, or automatic display appended to post content /
   Echo Knowledge Base header.
 * Settings page for credentials, property ID, live-fetch window, cache duration,
   label, metric, event name, and post types.
 * Optional per-post „legacy baseline“ to add historical (e.g. Universal Analytics)
   views to the live GA4 count.
 * Lightweight: talks to the GA4 Data API directly over REST with a self-signed 
   service-account token — no bundled multi-megabyte SDK.

Google Analytics is a third-party service governed by Google’s own terms; see https://
policies.google.com/privacy and https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/
terms/us/ .

## Screenshots

[⌊The settings page under Settings -> GA Views.⌉⌊The settings page under Settings-
> GA Views.⌉[

The settings page under Settings -> GA Views.

[⌊A pageview count rendered on a post.⌉⌊A pageview count rendered on a post.⌉[

A pageview count rendered on a post.

## Installation

 1. Upload the `designed2use-ga-views` folder to `/wp-content/plugins/`, or install
    through the Plugins screen.
 2. Activate the plugin.
 3. In Google Cloud, create or select a project and enable the **Google Analytics Data
    API** for it (APIs & Services  Library  search „Google Analytics Data API“  Enable).
 4. Create a service account, add a JSON key, and download it.
 5. In Google Analytics, open Admin  Property access management and grant the service
    account’s email the **Viewer** role on your GA4 property.
 6. Go to **Settings  GA Views**, paste the service-account JSON, enter your numeric
    GA4 Property ID, choose your options, and save.
 7. Add `[d2ugav_pageview]` to a post/template, or set **Automatic display** to append
    it to post content.
 8. Optionally click **Refresh counts now** to queue a batch of posts for an immediate
    background refresh.

**Advanced: keeping the key out of the database**

Instead of pasting the JSON into the settings field, define one of these in `wp-
config.php`:

    ```
    define( 'D2UGAV_CREDENTIALS_JSON', '{ ...service account json... }' );
    define( 'D2UGAV_CREDENTIALS_PATH', '/absolute/path/outside/webroot/key.json' );
    ```

**Diagnosing unexpected counts**

If a count is not what you expect, open **Settings  GA Views Diagnostics**, pick
a post, and click **Run live test**. It runs a live GA4 report and shows the exact
URL it matched, the request, the HTTP status, the rows returned, the computed count,
and the raw GA4 response — so you can see immediately whether the issue is a URL
mismatch, an event-name mismatch, a date range, or credentials.

For a logged trace of every request (including front-end renders and background 
refreshes), enable **Debug logging** on the settings page. The trace is written 
to your PHP error log and never includes credentials or access tokens; turn it off
again when finished. The same logging can be forced on site-wide with `define( '
D2UGAV_DEBUG', true );` in `wp-config.php`.

## FAQ

### Where is my service-account key stored?

If you paste it into the settings page, it is stored in the `wp_options` table of
your database. The key is never displayed again after saving. For higher security,
define `D2UGAV_CREDENTIALS_JSON` or `D2UGAV_CREDENTIALS_PATH` in `wp-config.php`
instead — then nothing is stored in the database.

### Does this slow down my site?

Recent posts make one fast, narrow GA call on the first view after the cache expires(
then it is cached). Older posts never call Google on render — they refresh in the
background. You can also set the live-fetch window to 0 to push _every_ post to 
the background.

### Why don’t counts appear immediately?

New posts and old posts are refreshed by a background job a few seconds after they
are queued. Recent posts populate on their first front-end view. Use **Refresh counts
now** to queue a batch right away.

### My counts look low / high.

Check that the GA4 Property ID is correct, the selected metric/event matches how
your site tracks views, and (for very old content) that the fallback lookback window
is long enough. Pages are matched by URL using the GA4 `fullPageUrl` dimension.

## Rezensionen

Zu diesem Plugin liegen noch keine Rezensionen vor.

## Mitwirkende und Entwickler

„Designed2Use GA Views“ ist Open-Source-Software. Folgende Menschen haben an diesem
Plugin mitgewirkt:

Mitwirkende

 *   [ Designed 2 Use ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/designed2use/)
 *   [ Ian Hulme ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/guy1ncognito/)

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## Änderungsprotokoll

#### 2.0.1

 * Fixed the first screenshot caption so it no longer causes an error with the screenshot
   alt text.

#### 2.0.0

 * Complete rewrite for WordPress.org distribution.
 * Removed the bundled Google SDK; the GA4 Data API is now called directly over 
   REST.
 * Hybrid fetch model: recent posts fetched live with a narrow publish-date window
   and fail-fast timeout; older posts refreshed in the background via WP-Cron. Page
   loads never block on the slow API.
 * Added a full settings page (credentials, property ID, live-fetch window, cache
   duration, label, metric, event, post types, display mode).
 * Added nonce protection to the editor meta box and escaped all output.
 * Added a Diagnostics screen (Settings  GA Views Diagnostics) and an optional debug-
   logging setting to troubleshoot unexpected counts.
 * Clamp the GA4 query start date to the API’s minimum so posts published before
   GA4 existed no longer fail.
 * Prefixed all functions/classes/meta and added internationalization.

## Meta

 *  Version **2.0.1**
 *  Zuletzt aktualisiert **vor 1 Tag**
 *  Aktive Installationen **weniger als 10**
 *  WordPress-Version ** 6.0 oder höher **
 *  Getestet bis **7.0**
 *  PHP-Version ** 7.4 oder höher **
 *  Sprache
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/designed2use-ga-views/)
 * Schlagwörter
 * [analytics](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/analytics/)[ga4](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ga4/)
   [google analytics](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/google-analytics/)[pageviews](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/pageviews/)
   [views](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/views/)
 *  [Erweiterte Ansicht](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/designed2use-ga-views/advanced/)

## Bewertungen

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## Mitwirkende

 *   [ Designed 2 Use ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/designed2use/)
 *   [ Ian Hulme ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/guy1ncognito/)

## Support

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