Variable ID in Goal URL

Hello Erik,

Apologies for the late reply.
Your support e-mail landed in the spam folder for some reason, and we’ve overlooked it.

There is no regex matching in the plugin for goal URLs but there is a way around it:
you can programmatically call our conversion marker function in PHP, and you can implement your custom matching on the page.

Excerpt from the plugin documentation:

“
If you need more flexibility and want to embed your experiment into one of your WordPress templates you can use our experiment function. That function takes two required parameters and one optional parameter; the first is your experiment id, the second is the element you’re trying to test and the third is a Boolean for if the experiment will be ran across multiple pages.

EX:

<?php echo ab_press_optimizer(1, ‘Link‘); ?>
“

I hope it helps.

Cheers,
Csaba

Hello Csaba

My 2 goal URLs are actually 2 Pages in my WP admin console.

If I want these 2 Pages to ‘fire’ an conversion, how do I need to do this? I figure I don’t want to add any PHP code to my general Page template, as it would affect all my WP Pages.

Is there a shortcode as well to mark a conversion which I can easily add with the Text editor of these Pages in the WP admin console?

Looking forward to your reply. Thanks!

Hello Erik,

Currently, goal URLs in the plugin are exact match only.
So if you would like to use the plugin shortcode to mark a conversion then it won’t work in your case.

Looking at the URLs in your first post, it looks like you have an “inverse” experiment here: normally there is a funnel with different variations and one is trying to measure which one converts best (that is, which one leads most visitors to the goal URL).
But you have more than one goal URLs so maybe your experiments need to be designed differently.

I think our plugin is not a good fit for you unless you redesign your experiments.

If you cannot use our plugin then let us know and we will give you a full refund.

Cheers,
Csaba

Hello Csaba

About 95% of the conversions are about the monthly subscription:

https://ourwebsite.com/confirmation-monthly/?transaction_key=<variable ID>

Just to make sure:

If I set the goal URL to this WP Page “https://ourwebsite.com/confirmation-monthly/&#8221;, will it ignore the ?transaction_key parameter and record the transaction? Or can you confirm it will definitely NOT work because this parameter is always attached to the URL?

Looking forward to your reply. Thanks!

Hello Erik,

Goal URL matching will not work because there is a variable parameter called <variable ID> in the URL.

We will add more goal URL match types in future releases, but you cannot match this variable goal URL currently.

Csaba

That is too bad Csaba. We will request a refund.

We are looking forward to a update containing more URL goal matches!

No problem.

Please write an email to [email protected], forwarding your payment receipt for the plugin, and we will issue the refund.

We will improve the plugin significantly this year, hopefully we can do business in the future.

Cheers,
Csaba