Thomas

Thanks for this @denisit71

> I modified Advertising.php but now I get a Blank page when I go to report.

I’m assuming there’s maybe some typo like a bracket not correctly set etc. You could remove some lines and make this function around line 118 look like this:

    public static function isAdsEnabledInConfig($configGeneralSection)
    {
        $oldSettingValue = false;
        $newSettingValue = @$configGeneralSection['piwik_professional_support_ads_enabled'];
        return (bool) ($newSettingValue || $oldSettingValue);
    }

or even

    public static function isAdsEnabledInConfig($configGeneralSection)
    {
        return true;
    }

Does this help @denisit71 ?

Just FYI I will mark it already as resolved as we have created a patch that should prevent this particular issue in the future (in https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/pull/17233 ). However, be great if you could still reply to do the above question as it’s not clear why this would show an error in the first place.

BTW if you have like 10.000 visitors a day you might rather want to install our dedicated Matomo On-Premise (see install guide) as it would make things a bit faster as WordPress wouldn’t need to be bootstrapped on every tracking request.

@leogc there is a plugin for Matomo that can show a counter see https://plugins.matomo.org/ClassicCounter (see our FAQ for how to install a Matomo plugin). However, it looks like it’s not possible to set an initial value there. I’ve created an issue to consider this feature in the future: https://github.com/Findus23/plugin-ClassicCounter/issues/3

Hi @leogc it’s not possible yet to migrate the data from WP Statistics. We’re currently hiring a developer and hoping to have then resources to work on this feature in the future. It’s not supported yet though and I would expect it won’t be done in the next 3 months unfortunately. We have an issue for this here https://github.com/matomo-org/wp-matomo/issues/341 and just in case you have a github login feel free to watch this issue there. Hope this helps and sorry I don’t have better news just yet.

Awesome, glad to hear @manishvcn

Thanks for all the feedback @wpfan1000 . Really appreciated. We’ve already made some small tweaks to clarify these things better and will continue adding a lot more improvements. Generally, it should take only few seconds to set up tracking (one click) and we’ll make more clear that nothing else needs to be done and improve other part. As mentioned in the issue we have documentation in https://matomo.org/faq/wordpress/ plus up to 1000 FAQs in https://matomo.org/faq/ (some of them apply to Matomo On-Premise) and many guides in https://matomo.org/docs/ . We’re also rewriting currently all guides and are updating them step by step to improve them.

> 1) If tracking is enabled, why do I need to configure my tracking code? If I do not config my tracking code, is tracking working?

You don’t need to configure the tracking code when tracking is enabled. All configurations are optional. The only thing in the Matomo Settings you would need to set is “Add tracking code: Default tracking” (or more advanced users might use manually). All the other options are optional.

> 2) With eg Google Analytics, I have to get a tracking code from them. I have not gotten a code from you. So how could I configure it? Do I need a tracking code from you? Or not?

Our plugin inserts this tracking code into your site automatically as long as the tracking code is not set to “Disabled”. So when it says in the tracking settings “Tracking code: Default tracking” for example, our plugin does the job for you directly and you won’t have to do anything else.

> I am thinking I need a key? Is that what you mean by trackng code? Or do you mean the HTML/JS code you show:

The tracking code you are seeing there is what our plugin will add to your website automatically. That’s what’s meant by tracking code but you don’t need to do anything with it. It’s more like a preview to know what Matomo adds to your website. We’ll make this more clear in the future.

> I am now in the Settings > Tracking page. It shows this code:
> 4a) So why do you show that?

It’s kind of a preview to know what Matomo will inject into your website. I can see this is not clear and we will tweak this in the future, potentially remove it or reword it and make things more clear.

4b) Do I need to edit it before Saving Changes? It is in an editable textarea field.

You should only be able to edit this field if the tracking code mode is set to “Manually”. In all other cases the field should not be editable. “Manually” is meant for advanced users where they want max flexibility and configure the tracking code to their liking.

I’m assuming the first setting says “Tracking code: Default tracking” so you won’t need to do anything with it.

4d) It is not a simple one line piece code – do you really expect people to learn every piece of it and edit it properly?

You don’t need to edit it unless you choose to do so by setting the tracking code to “Manually”. Can you double check “Add tracking code” says “Default tracking” and whether you can then edit this field? Do you have maybe JavaScript disabled or so?

4e) Currency: US dollars? What the heck does that mean? Are you going to track how much currency the visitors have? If so would you not need access to their banks accounts? Currency of what? My payment to you? How can you expect payment for a optional free plugin?

Matomo can automatically track ecommerce orders if your site is a shop. It then tracks the amount of each product you add to cart, the total cart value etc. With Matomo you can also configure goals. Meaning you could say, when a user visits my contact website, then from some business calculations I know on average this is worth 0.5 USD to me. It’s kind of a value you assign yourself for a certain page and it helps people better understand their business and how the website is going. It’s a little bit described in https://matomo.org/docs/tracking-goals-web-analytics/

I hope this helps. We really appreciate your feedback and we will make changes so things become more clear. Feel free to further let us know when you see confusing things. Only with feedback we can improve things 🙂 Thanks again very much.