Plugin Combination

  • Resolved markiljas

    (@markiljas)


    8 years, 2 months ago

    Hello,

    I have two rather simple question, but I still haven’t found a straightforward answer, so decided to ask.

    I want to install your plugin since it is highly recommended. However, I currently have Google Analytics Dashboard for WP installed (for analytics tracking), as well as Enhanced E-commerce for Woocommerce store plugin (for ecommerce tracking). If I understood correctly, I can remove both of these plugins when I install yours, as they are redundant once I insert the appropriate tags, correct?

    If so, is there any dashboard traffic stat view in your plugin available? Or do you have any recommendation what plugin could cover that which would not clash with yours?

    If you could shed some light on this, it would be really appreciated.

    Kind regards,
    Marko Matijasevic

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  • Plugin Author Thomas Geiger

    (@duracelltomi)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    Hi Marko,

    Google Tag Manager itself must not be used with Google Analytics, you can place other tags inside GTM and leave your GA plugins active. What you need to make sure that you do not add GA tracking inside your GTM container AND have any active native GA plugins as with this you will track the same interactions (pageviews, events, transactions) multiple times.

    My plugin does not have any dashboard feature and it is not planned to have such a feature as GTM is a more general tool to handle all your tracking codes in one place, not just Google Analytics.

    For dashboarding, I usually recommend creating Google Data Studio reports that are far more flexible but I also have to admit that this is yet another tool to learn to use. It is not a WP plugin but a standalone service of Google.
    If you need one click solutions, I would definitely vote against my plugin and GTM.

    You can read more about this here.
    https://gtm4wp.com/for-beginners/google-analytics-plugin-or-tag-manager-plugin-benefits-and-disadvantages.html

    I hope that helps you clarify whether you need this plugin and GTM or not. Please let me know if you have additional questions.

    Thread Starter markiljas

    (@markiljas)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    Hi again,

    Thank you for the fast reply. Seems to me that your plugin offers a much more powerful approach than the other one-click plugins, while “sacrificing” just a dashboard view, it just needs to be properly setup. Even more, it would enable me to remove numerous plugins, since I just realised I can even track Facebook Pixel from GTM (it all works through your plugin I assume?).

    It really looks like an awesome plugin and GTM seems well worth switching over.

    Thanks once again!

    Plugin Author Thomas Geiger

    (@duracelltomi)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    You can use almost every tracking code on the net inside GTM. There are many so called tag templates on the GTM UI which gives you the comfort of only entering some IDs and options and GTM will take care of the JavaScript codes. Unfortunately the Facebook pixel does not have such a tag template (yet) but there is a general tag type in GTM called “Custom HTML tag” where you can copy/paste a FB pixel and use it as you wish.

    In that point of view your FB pixel will not be handled by my plugin but by GTM itself.

    But yes, as you said: proper setup has to be done and you can deactivate other plugins as well 🙂 If you are new to GTM, I would advise to go through this quick free online course of Google:
    https://analytics.google.com/analytics/academy/course/5

    Thread Starter markiljas

    (@markiljas)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    Thank you for the link to the course, it should be very helpful 🙂

    As for the Facebook Pixel over custom HTML tag, I think I’ll do it that way, to reduce the number of plugins even further. I still don’t have to do anything on the WordPress side, I assume, just GTM? Since your plugin places the container in WordPress?

    Plugin Author Thomas Geiger

    (@duracelltomi)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    Actually yes.
    If you learn GTM more deeply, you will learn a term called “data layer”. My plugin can fill this with lots of useful data and you can use this to evolve your tags on the GTM UI. But I would advise to learn the basics first 🙂

    Thread Starter markiljas

    (@markiljas)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    Managed to get it working, now I just need to customise it completely 🙂 Thank you for the help once again, I’ll get to learining right away!

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