Getting Started

Platform Guides

Exact click-by-click install steps for every major website platform.

Whatever your website is built on, installing Crafty Meerkat comes down to the same move: paste one snippet where your platform keeps its “head” code. The tricky part is that every platform hides that box in a different place — so this guide gives you the exact clicks for WordPress, Shopify, Squarespace, Wix, Webflow, Google Tag Manager, and Next.js or React sites.

WordPress owners get the easiest path of all: an official plugin that injects the snippet for you, so you never touch code at all. For everyone else, the steps below take a minute or two, and you only ever do this once.

If your platform is not listed here, do not worry — Crafty Meerkat works with any website that can include a JavaScript snippet, including static sites, Gatsby, Hugo, Ghost, and custom-built applications. Find your platform’s “custom code”, “code injection”, or “header scripts” setting and paste the snippet there.

The snippet every guide above installs

<script async
  src="https://t.craftymeerkat.com/v1/t.js"
  data-site="YOUR_SITE_ID"></script>

Step by step

1
WordPress — use the official plugin
Download the official Crafty Meerkat WordPress plugin from /downloads/crafty-meerkat-wordpress.zip. In your WordPress admin, go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, choose the .zip file, and activate it. Then open Settings → Crafty Meerkat and paste your Site Key from the dashboard. The plugin injects the snippet automatically on every page and can skip logged-in admins so your own editing sessions never count as traffic.
2
Shopify
In your Shopify admin, go to Online Store → Themes → Edit code and open the theme.liquid file. Paste the snippet just before the closing </head> tag, then save. Because theme.liquid wraps every page of your store, one paste covers your whole shop, product pages included.
3
Squarespace and Wix
On Squarespace, add the snippet under Settings → Advanced → Code Injection, in the Header field. On Wix, go to Settings → Custom Code and add the snippet to the Head, applied to all pages. Both platforms save and publish the change site-wide in one step.
4
Webflow
Open Project Settings → Custom Code and paste the snippet into the Head Code field. Save, then publish your site — Webflow only applies custom code on publish, so this last click matters.
5
Google Tag Manager
If you already manage tags with GTM, create a new Custom HTML tag, paste the snippet as its content, and set the trigger to All Pages. Publish the container and the snippet goes live everywhere GTM runs.
6
Next.js and React
Add the script to your root layout using next/script with strategy="afterInteractive", or drop the raw script tag into your document head. The snippet handles client-side navigation, so single-page apps are tracked correctly.
```
import Script from "next/script"

// In your root layout:
<Script
  src="https://t.craftymeerkat.com/v1/t.js"
  data-site="YOUR_SITE_ID"
  strategy="afterInteractive"
/>
```

Tips from the den

◆After installing on any platform, open your site in a new tab and confirm your visit appears in Live Traffic View — it is a ten-second check that saves a week of missing data.
◆On WordPress, prefer the official plugin over pasting code into your theme: theme updates can silently wipe hand-edited code, but the plugin survives them.
◆Moving to a new theme or template? Re-check that the snippet came along — templates are the most common reason tracking quietly stops.

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Common questions

My platform is not on this list. Can I still use Crafty Meerkat?

Almost certainly yes. Any website or web application that can include a JavaScript snippet works — static sites, Gatsby, Hugo, Ghost, and fully custom builds included. Look for a “custom code”, “code injection”, or “header scripts” setting in your platform, or ask your developer to add the one-line snippet to the site’s head.

Does the WordPress plugin do anything the snippet does not?

The tracking is identical — the plugin simply installs and maintains the snippet for you. Its two conveniences are that you never edit code and that it can skip logged-in admins, so your own editing sessions do not show up as visits.

Should I install through Google Tag Manager or directly?

If you already use GTM for other tags, adding Crafty Meerkat there keeps everything in one place. If you do not, a direct paste is simpler and one less system to think about. Either way, the data you get is the same.