Title: Tracking Pixel in Plugin
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Tracking Pixel in Plugin

 *  Resolved [Brian Wendt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ontodevelopment/)
 * (@ontodevelopment)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tracking-pixel-in-plugin/)
 * Long time developer, first time publisher. I just got my first plugin on hosted
   here on wordpress.org and quickly saw my download counter go up. I doubt they
   are legitimate downloads because there isn’t much demand for what I built.
 * I’m curious if it is permitted to ad a tracking pixel to the plugin’s admin page
   so that I can get a more accurate count. I suppose I could also see which websites
   are using the plugin and how they are implementing it which would help for future
   development.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tracking-pixel-in-plugin/#post-4996612)
 * No – that’s not permitted.
 *  Thread Starter [Brian Wendt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ontodevelopment/)
 * (@ontodevelopment)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tracking-pixel-in-plugin/#post-4996615)
 * Thanks esmi, I see that you are a moderator so you are speaking from authority.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tracking-pixel-in-plugin/#post-4996617)
 * Here perhaps but I should point out that I’m not part of the plugin review team.
   That said, I’ve gone through those review guidelines quite a few times in the
   past and they do clearly state that “phoning home” is not allowed.
 * I appreciate that it can be frustrating not knowing how many people are actually
   using your plugin as opposed to just downloading it but, at the present time,
   there isn’t much we can do about that. It’s fairly common for downloads of new
   plugins to peak when they are first released as they will feature on the [https://wordpress.org/plugins/browse/new/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/browse/new/)
   page. I can only imagine that some people monitor that page and do download new
   plugins to try them out.
 *  [Evan Herman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eherman24/)
 * (@eherman24)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tracking-pixel-in-plugin/#post-4996618)
 * You’re not allowed any tracking information inside of your plugins. Thre are,
   however, a few plugins which give the user the ability to toggle on or off tracking.
 * I believe giving the user to option is one work around to allowing tracking information
   in plugins, but I don’t use any tracking features in my plugins so I can’t speak
   from experience.
 *  Thread Starter [Brian Wendt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ontodevelopment/)
 * (@ontodevelopment)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tracking-pixel-in-plugin/#post-4996621)
 * Good point, I read that but what all counted as phoning home. Plugins like **
   All-in-One Event Calendar** have images that are hosted on their domain which
   could technically be used to track usage.
 * Thanks for your time, esmi.
 *  Thread Starter [Brian Wendt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ontodevelopment/)
 * (@ontodevelopment)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tracking-pixel-in-plugin/#post-4996623)
 * I don’t need continued tracking, so maybe I could just add a link that has the
   domain-name embedded that they can click to check in? Optional action for the
   plugin user.

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 * Last reply from: [Brian Wendt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ontodevelopment/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tracking-pixel-in-plugin/#post-4996623)
 * Status: resolved

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