Tracker proxy support?

@nicoter I suppose if you were to use a custom tracking code, and configure the proxy accordingly to point to your Matomo for WordPress, this might already work?

What be the benefit for you of using the tracker proxy script?

I’m not sure I understand what you mean with custom tracking code etc.
Manually installing the script will obviously work, but is time consuming.

So the benefits would be: Ease of use and official support.

There’s already a WordPress plugin implementing the tracker proxy script:
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/matomo-tracker/

But in case the author decides to abandon it, it would be great the official Matomo plugin supports hiding of the server URL.

@nicoter just to understand as I’m not so much into this topic. What’s the benefit of configuring a different domain for analytics when it runs on the same domain as the site anyway?

Assuming the goal be to use eg www.analytics.example.com as tracking domain instead of your WordPress blog domain.

Just trying to understand the use case better.

> I’m not sure I understand what you mean with custom tracking code etc.

Sorry about that. I meant when you go to “Matomo => Settings” and change the tracking mode to manual you could enter a tracking code where the tracking domain points to your tracker proxy.

Does this plugin also install a Matomo server?

I was under the impression that it’s only a Matomo client.

@nicoter Yes this plugin does include a Matomo server, so you can use it without anything else (and therefore the Matomo URL will probably be the same as the website URL).

If you just want to connect a WordPress page to an existing Matomo instance, you can use WP-Matomo: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-piwik/

@nicoter sorry about the confusion. We’re still trying to figure out how to best differentiate these two plugins in the plugin name, description and in the app. If you have any suggestions on how we could make things more clear we’d really appreciate your feedback.

If that answers your question, could you mark this issue as resolved?

@findus23 The plugin you mentioned doesn’t include the tracker proxy, which this topic is about.

@tsteur Maybe state that this will install the full Matomo server and offer a link to a client plugin if the visitor is looking for a plugin to connect a WP site to an existing Matomo install.

Thanks

@nicoter WP-Matomo contains the tracker proxy:

You can select “use proxy script” in the config.
https://github.com/braekling/WP-Matomo/tree/master/proxy

@findus23 Thanks for bringing this to my attention. This should be mentioned on the plugin page, when I was searching for a solution only the other plugin did appear.