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How to put the scripts on phillipian.net

This page is for the webmaster, not for section editors. It is done once. The only files that go on phillipian.net are put-on-the-website/halfway.js and put-on-the-website/slot-clicks.js. Halfway means a reader scrolled to the middle of a story. A slot is the spot on the front page the click came from. Nothing here is installed yet.

Add the Plausible snippet for phillipian.net in the theme header, before </head>. A pageview is the open.
```
<script defer data-domain="phillipian.net" src="https://plausible.io/js/script.js"></script>
```
In Plausible, add two custom-event goals named halfway and slot_click. The property names are path and slot. The names have to match exactly, including capitalization.
Upload put-on-the-website/halfway.js and put-on-the-website/slot-clicks.js into wp-content/themes/phillipian2019/js/.

In the theme footer, before </body>, load those two files from the theme. The Plausible tag is already in the header, so it loads first.

<script src="<?php echo esc_url( get_template_directory_uri() ); ?>/js/halfway.js"></script>
<script src="<?php echo esc_url( get_template_directory_uri() ); ?>/js/slot-clicks.js"></script>

Do not upload guides/, make-the-monday-note/, demo/, or index.html. Those explain the note or write the five lines. They are not the live site.

To check: open one article and scroll past the middle, then click one story on the front. In Plausible, look for the halfway goal and the slot_click goal. A goal shows nothing until it has been created and the event has fired once after that.

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