Want to track visitors to your open-source project site or personal portfolio? Greening makes it easy to wire up Google Analytics — no manual editing required.

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With just a few lines in your greening.yaml config, you can automatically include a Google Analytics tracking ID in your deployed GitHub Pages site.

🧠 Why This Is Useful

Traditional static site setups (Jekyll, Hugo, etc.) require you to:

  • Manually edit template files or _config.yml
  • Copy and paste Google scripts
  • Hope nothing breaks in the build

Greening skips all that. Just provide your tracking tag, and it handles the rest.

📈 What You’ll Need

  1. A Google Analytics 4 property
  2. The Measurement ID (e.g., G-XXXXXXXXXX)
  3. A Greening project with a configured greening.yaml

✏️ Step 1: Grab Your Tracking Tag

  1. Go to Google Analytics
  2. Select or create a GA4 property
  3. Navigate to Admin → Data Streams → Web
  4. Copy the Measurement ID (starts with G-)

📄 Step 2: Paste It into greening.yaml

In your project’s root directory, open or create a greening.yaml file and add:

google_analytics: G-XXXXXXXXXX

Replace G-XXXXXXXXXX with your actual tag.

🚀 Step 3: Deploy Your Site

Run the following command to generate and publish your GitHub Pages site:

greening deploy

Greening will:

  • Render your site using Jekyll and the Minimal Mistakes theme
  • Inject your analytics tag automatically
  • Push it to the gh-pages branch

✅ You’re Done!

Visit your site, and you’ll start seeing traffic data appear in your GA4 dashboard — no manual setup, no scripts to mess with.

Greening’s mission is to make launching, documenting, and deploying projects fast, beautiful, and automated. Adding analytics should never be the bottleneck.

You can follow the project or contribute on GitHub:
👉 https://github.com/chris-greening/greening

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greening is an opinionated, lightweight project automation tool for solo developers and creative coders. With just a few commands, you can scaffold a production-ready Python package — complete with docs, tests, GitHub Actions workflows, PyPI packaging, and an auto-deployed GitHub Pages site. No boilerplate. No setup hell. Just instant polish.

🌱 Greening

greening is an opinionated, full-stack project automation tool for solo developers and creative coders.

With just a few commands, you can scaffold a production-ready Python package — complete with docs, tests, GitHub Actions workflows, PyPI packaging, and an auto-deployed GitHub Pages site No boilerplate. No setup hell. Just instant polish.

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🤔 Why greening?

Most devs never ship their tools — not because the code isn’t good, but because the surrounding friction is too high:

  • How do I structure the project?
  • How do I set up CI/CD, tests, and linting?
  • How do I make it look legit?
  • How do I talk about it?

greening answers all of that in one opinionated workflow.

⚙️ What It Does

greening automates your project creation pipeline:

✅ greening init – generates a starter greening.yaml config file ✅ greening new – scaffolds your entire Python project in-place ✅ greening deploy – builds…

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