Update Plausible script to manually trigger page view events

By default Plausible strips query params from urls to count page views. We want to track search terms via the 'query' tag. To do this we will need to switch to using the manual Plausible script, and define a function to manually trigger events.
dxw · Jul 20, 2023 · 3b72afe · 3b72afe
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diff --git a/src/_layouts/default.html b/src/_layouts/default.html
@@ -22,7 +22,9 @@
     {% endif %}
 
     <link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/main.css" />
-    <script defer data-domain="playbook.dxw.com" src="https://plausible.io/js/plausible.js"></script>
+    <script defer data-domain="playbook.dxw.com" src="https://plausible.io/js/script.manual.js"></script>
+    <!-- define the `plausible` function to manually trigger events - as the pageview event is not being sent automatically with 'script.manual.js' -->
+    <script>window.plausible = window.plausible || function() { (window.plausible.q = window.plausible.q || []).push(arguments) }</script>
   </head>
   <body>
     {% include navbar.html %}