can't authenticate

I have it working on one of my clients websites?? I did nothing but it is now working.

I have tried it on a couple of my other websites (same host/VPS) with no luck, I am now seeing a different message however – “There were no changes to save, please try again.” I have disabled all caching and cleared the cache etc..

I will keep trying to nail down the issue by using my website that is working and I will post back if I have any luck.

The last update is sorta-working. If I paste in the UA code it works. If not, it’s about a 50/50 proposition.

I wish someone from Yoast would just post here to acknowledge the problem!

Active Installs: 1+ Million… that is a lot of people getting pissed off. I know its free, but a quick acknowledgment on the official forum only takes a moment.

Same problem here — won’t authenticate. Ugh.

I got plugin working again by deleting all it’s options directly from the wp_options table and reauthenticating after that.

SQL query to find plugin’s options:
SELECT * FROM wp_options WHERE option_name LIKE '%yst_ga%'

Replace wp_ with your table prefix.

Feature suggestion: Reset all plugin options when Reauthenticate -button is clicked.

Sad that Yoast is completely silent on this problem.

I tried Mikko’s suggestion and it worked for me. There was only 1 db row in the options table for yst_ga and it looks like it was a serialized string of all the settings in 1 field. Deleted that row from the db and now I can select the correct GA profile. (You may have more than 1 row) After selecting the correct GA profile, I now have 8 rows in the options table.

If you have no idea what we are talking about, I would recommend getting help from someone who knows MySQL to help you with your site. Deleting things directly from the db can be dangerous if you aren’t familiar with what you are doing.

The crickets from Yoast on this are alarming. What is going on Yoast? Tell us SOMETHING!

@mikko, thank you for your suggestions. Worked like a charm.

HEAR YE! HEAR YE!

To re-authenticate, you will need to follow Mikko’s instructions:

SQL query to find plugin’s options:
SELECT * FROM wp_options WHERE option_name LIKE ‘%yst_ga%’

(Replace wp_ with your table prefix.)

You will need to delete all the database rows that come up in the results, then go and authenticate like normal.

@netpagz, you got to it before me. ??

I’ll ad myself to this string to. Just installed a new website and couldn’t authenticate also. Tried Safari (emptied caches), tried Chrome, nothing (all latest versions on Mac OSX 10.10.3). The manual authentication worked, so for now at least there is a analytics code in my site…

Yep same problem here. I save the authentication code, and there is no drop down to select the analytics property. If I try to re-authenticate it tells me nothing has changed so it can’t save anything.

Thankfully manually adding the UA code works, so at least I’ve got analytics working.

Yep. Me too. Please address this. Thank you!

@jrebergen
@jodamo5
@anima9

You can fix the problem by following the instructions from Mikko.

The solution from Mikko doesn’t work for me. Multiple WP 4.2.1 installations using GAbY 5.4.2 on LAMP. My client is Fedora and Firefox or Chromium. The “Authenticate with your Google account” button has never worked but, even if run the script behind it manually to get the authentication code, pasting the code just returns “Settings saved.”

@carrotchruncher

It should still work, all you need to do is replace the “wp_” prefix with the appropriate ones for all your sites in phpMyAdmin. Then it should run like a charm