Title: Tracker proxy support?
Last modified: February 25, 2020

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# Tracker proxy support?

 *  Resolved [nicoter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicoter/)
 * (@nicoter)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tracker-proxy-support/)
 * Any plans to add support for the tracker proxy script?
    [https://github.com/matomo-org/tracker-proxy](https://github.com/matomo-org/tracker-proxy)

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 *  Plugin Author [Thomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tsteur/)
 * (@tsteur)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tracker-proxy-support/#post-12475943)
 * [@nicoter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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?
 *  Thread Starter [nicoter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicoter/)
 * (@nicoter)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tracker-proxy-support/#post-12475961)
 * 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://wordpress.org/plugins/matomo-tracker/](https://wordpress.org/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.
 *  Plugin Author [Thomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tsteur/)
 * (@tsteur)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tracker-proxy-support/#post-12476074)
 * [@nicoter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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.
 *  Thread Starter [nicoter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicoter/)
 * (@nicoter)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tracker-proxy-support/#post-12478393)
 * Does this plugin also install a Matomo server?
 * I was under the impression that it’s only a Matomo client.
 *  [Findus23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/findus23/)
 * (@findus23)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tracker-proxy-support/#post-12478755)
 * [@nicoter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-piwik/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-piwik/)
 *  Plugin Author [Thomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tsteur/)
 * (@tsteur)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tracker-proxy-support/#post-12479495)
 * [@nicoter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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?
 *  Thread Starter [nicoter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicoter/)
 * (@nicoter)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tracker-proxy-support/#post-12479523)
 * [@findus23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/findus23/) The plugin you mentioned
   doesn’t include the tracker proxy, which this topic is about.
 * [@tsteur](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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
 *  [Findus23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/findus23/)
 * (@findus23)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tracker-proxy-support/#post-12479546)
 * [@nicoter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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](https://github.com/braekling/WP-Matomo/tree/master/proxy)
 *  Thread Starter [nicoter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicoter/)
 * (@nicoter)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tracker-proxy-support/#post-12480469)
 * [@findus23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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.

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