How to exclude your own visits from Google Analytics (WordPress)

This video will show you how you can exclude internal traffic/your own visits to your website from Google Analytics report. This tutorial shows you how to create two types of filters i.e. IP address filter and Cookies filter.
0:27 Filter based on IP address, follow the steps below
1. Search your public IP address on Google
2. Create a new view on Google Analytics
3. Create a new filter on Google Analytics and enter your IP address
3:31 Filter based on cookies, follow the steps below
1. Create a new view on Google Analytics if you haven't done so
2. Create a new custom dimension
3. Create a new filter for the custom dimension
4. Create a special page and add the set cookie function
5. Add the codes that set the dimension when the cookie exist directly above ga('send', 'pageview');.
7:42 If you are using WordPress and want to exclude your visits when you are logged in
- Add the set cookie function in the functions.php file
Codes used in this tutorial
1. Set cookie on the special page
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2. Set cookie in the functions.php
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3. Set dimension when cookie exists (put this directly above ga('send', 'pageview');
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