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review · 5 starsIf you’re going to continue to offer this, you really need to sort out the set up details. For a start off, it is necessary for the user to FTP into their server space to find out the location of the Piwik folder, and this is nothing like the simple example given. Instead of being at http://www.domain.com/wp-piwik It was actually http://www.domain.com/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wp-piwik Second, the API key – I gave up, since your directions to its alleged location are extremely ambiguous. I never found it, and by then you had lost me. And since my site is https, I suspect that THAT would also have been an issue if I had been prepared to continue trying to install it. Plugins should just install and work. End of. Installations like this should be on SourceForge and not available for download as complete packages. This topic was modified 9 years, 1 month ago by DOAADI . This topic was modified 9 years, 1 month ago by DOAADI .
I’m very sorry you were not able to setup the plugin, but obvoiously you got something wrong. The plugin is a simple plugin to integrate Piwik to your blog, it is not Piwik itself. Piwik is an independent software tool you have to install first. Please have a look at the first three sentences of the plugin’s description: This plugin adds a Piwik stats site to your WordPress dashboard. It’s also able to add the Piwik tracking code to your blog. To use this plugin you will need your own Piwik instance. If you do not already have a Piwik setup, you have two simple options: use either Self-hosted or Cloud-hosted. The plugin’s requirements: Requirements: PHP 5.4 (or higher)/PHP 7.0 (or higher), WordPress 4.0 (or higher), Piwik 2.16 (or higher) To get your own Piwik instance, you can visit https://piwik.org/ . Piwik’s documentation also contains a setup manual . You can also use a cloud hosted Piwik, e.g. at Piwik Pro https://piwik.org/hosting/ (available at charge). After you installed Piwik you can use the WP-Piwik plugin to connect to this Piwik instance by entering Piwik’s URL (in most cases something like http://www.example.com/piwk ) and the auth token you can find in your Piwik dashboard (e.g. follow these instructions ). The link you mentioned (/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wp-piwik) is the plugin’s URL, but it does not make sense to connect the plugin to itself.
I’m very sorry you were not able to setup the plugin, but obvoiously you got something wrong. The plugin is a simple plugin to integrate Piwik to your blog, it is not Piwik itself. Piwik is an independent software tool you have to install first. Please have a look at the first three sentences of the plugin’s description: This plugin adds a Piwik stats site to your WordPress dashboard. It’s also able to add the Piwik tracking code to your blog. To use this plugin you will need your own Piwik instance. If you do not already have a Piwik setup, you have two simple options: use either Self-hosted or Cloud-hosted. The plugin’s requirements: Requirements: PHP 5.4 (or higher)/PHP 7.0 (or higher), WordPress 4.0 (or higher), Piwik 2.16 (or higher) To get your own Piwik instance, you can visit https://piwik.org/ . Piwik’s documentation also contains a setup manual . You can also use a cloud hosted Piwik, e.g. at Piwik Pro https://piwik.org/hosting/ (available at charge). After you installed Piwik you can use the WP-Piwik plugin to connect to this Piwik instance by entering Piwik’s URL (in most cases something like http://www.example.com/piwk ) and the auth token you can find in your Piwik dashboard (e.g. follow these instructions ). The link you mentioned (/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wp-piwik) is the plugin’s URL, but it does not make sense to connect the plugin to itself.