Differences from WP-Matomo

Hi,

The two plugins have different use cases.

This plugin contains a full Matomo installation. So you only need to install it and have a full Matomo setup running.

While WP-Matomo allows you to connect your WordPress to a self-hosted (or cloud-hosted) Matomo instance.

Both plugins will continue to be developed as they don’t replace each other.

Oh that’s smart, I didn’t read the intro closely enough, sorry! Nice idea.

@beecher The existing WP-Matomo will be slightly renamed soon to WP-Matomo Integration (WP-Piwik) and we’ll also try to further recduce the confusion there. If you have any ideas or thoughts on namings and how they could be better differentiated, please let us know. Very appreciated your feedback.

I thought WP-Matamo was independant tbh. That sounds like a sensible name, although I’d be ditching Piwik at this stage if it was me. ??

Thanks for this clarification. Just to be clear, if we’re already running self-hosted Matomo and running the WP-Matomo (WP-Piwik) plugin, there’s no benefit in moving to the Matomo Analytics plugin, correct?

I’d also be curious as to whether there are any differences between standard self-hosted and WP self-hosted. I was browsing for a client yesterday and noticed that there seems to be a separate “marketplace” for WordPress installs, and one of the upgrades was referers, which seems kind of fundamental. ??

@beecher we have an FAQ about this here: https://matomo.org/faq/wordpress/what-are-the-differences-between-matomo-on-premise-and-matomo-for-wordpress/

@macobserver

> Thanks for this clarification. Just to be clear, if we’re already running self-hosted Matomo and running the WP-Matomo (WP-Piwik) plugin, there’s no benefit in moving to the Matomo Analytics plugin, correct?

Absolutely correct. We definitely recommend using WP-Matomo here. We’re already tweaking the readme (not live yet) and brainstorming other ways to make this more clear.