Plugin / WP-Matomo (WP-Piwik)

Changelog

1.0.22

• Bugfix: Innocraft cloud URL *.matomo.cloud will work
• Option to configure filter_limit parameter (see expert settings)
• Replaced piwik.php proxy script by matomo.php proxy script

1.0.21

• Bugfix: Get HTTP mode working again

1.0.20

• Support for new Innocraft cloud URL (*.matomo.cloud)
• Changed naming from Piwik to Matomo
• Added City, Type and Model views
• Bugfix: Avoid warnings on empty results

1.0.19

• Security fix: Escape request var
• Language updates

1.0.18

• WPML.org support: Use different site IDs for different languages
• Ecommerce widgets

1.0.17

• Header issue solved which caused incompatibilities with other plugins like Yoast SEO
• Update of InnoCraft cloud links (InnoCraft is the team behind Matomo)
• Bugfix: Avoid a broken page if Matomo is misconfigured and WordPress debugging enabled

1.0.16

• Added InnoCraft Cloud support (the new service created by the people behind Matomo). Piwik.pro is still usable via HTTP mode, the configuration will be updated automatically.
• Added search functionality to site browser
• Added preload DNS option, see https://matomo.org/blog/2017/04/important-performance-optimizations-load-piwik-javascript-tracker-faster/
• Added option to set link and download classes (expert settings)
• Added option to choose which post types should be considered for annotations
• Bugfix: Opening Matomo stats of a specific network site does not lead to the sitebrowser anymore
• Bugfix: Avoid unnecessary notices
• Bugfix: Avoid a warning in proxy script
• Bugfix: NoScript code is working again
• Replaced deprecated wp_get_sites

1.0.15

• Allow to modify the tracked user ID using the filter “wp-piwik_tracking_user_id”
• Bugfix: Output of “post” shortcode was incorrectly placed, see https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-shortcode-values-are-incorrectly-placed/
• Bugfix: Usage of WP_PROXY_BYPASS_HOSTS, see https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-considering-wp_proxy_bypass_hosts-in-proxy-setups/
• Bugfix: Proxy script did not work with cURL, see https://github.com/braekling/WP-Matomo/issues/48
• Bugfix: RSS feed tracking did not use proxy URL

1.0.14

• Action “wp-piwik_site_created” was extended by a site ID parameter, so it will deliver the Matomo site ID of the created site
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue with Matomo site creation
• Bugfix: Allow changes of a manually defined tracking code on networks, see https://github.com/braekling/WP-Matomo/issues/46

1.0.13

• Language updates
• Readme typo fixes (thx to ujdhesa)
• Perform your own code after site creation by using the action “wp-piwik_site_created”
• Improved caching ID to avoid interferences, see https://github.com/braekling/WP-Matomo/issues/42

1.0.12

• Removed notices and warnings
• Allow to modify the tracking code using the filter “wp-piwik_tracking_code”
• Network: Don’t show plugin overview settings link on individual sites

1.0.11

• Security improvements
• Removed some division by zero warnings
• Option to disable SSL host verification (additional to peer verification)
• Overview widget: Do not show unique visitors row if value is not available
• Bugfix: Post shortcode is fixed and will work again

1.0.10

• Security fix

1.0.9

• Language updates
• Bugfix: Deprecated get_currentuserinfo() replace. Thx to the infinity, see https://github.com/braekling/WP-Matomo/pull/21
• Bugfix: Overview widget will show proper values even if a period > 1 day is selected, see https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-numbers-im-wp-piwik

1.0.8

• Feature: Show “per post stats” and the “custom variable meta box” also on page and custom post edit
• Bugfix: Fixed user tracking (moved the user tracking changes from general modifications to runtime modifications)
• Bugfix: Fixed namespace error. Thx to thelfensdrfer, see https://github.com/braekling/WP-Matomo/pull/18
• Bugfix: Warning on blog name change, see https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-piwik-triggers-warning-when-changing-blog-name

1.0.7

• Feature: User ID Tracking. Thx to Danw33, see https://github.com/braekling/WP-Matomo/pull/16
• Feature: Site ID parameter added to opt-out shortcode. Thx to christianhennen, see https://github.com/braekling/WP-Matomo/pull/17
• Feature: Allow a local config file to affect the proxy script, see https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proxy-config-require-wp-loadphp-path
• Bugfix: No script tag is not auto-inserted if the tracking code is manually defined.

1.0.6

• Language updates
• Encoding & gettext fixes
• Better error messages. Thx to mcguffin, see https://github.com/braekling/WP-Matomo/pull/14

1.0.5

• Several language updates.
• Important security fix: XSS vulnerability

1.0.4

• Several language updates.
• Feature: Offer setDownloadExtensions option (see expert settings).
• Feature: Consider configured HTTP connection method in proxy script.
• Widget: Visitor country added.
• Bugfix: Annotations on scheduled posts will work.
• Bugfix: Donation button will work again.

1.0.3

• Several language updates.
• Switch to JSON renderer (Matomo 3 compatibility preparation)
• Workaround: PHP API will work with Matomo 2.14+, see https://github.com/piwik/piwik/issues/8311 for further information.
• Feature: Heartbeat timer support
• Feature: Expanded token & URL/path input fields
• Bugfix: Site duplication fix.
• Bugfix: Avoid notice on empty overview response.
• Bugfix: Return request error responses.
• Bugfix: Opt-out URL fixed.
• Bugfix: Capabilities: “Do not track”-filter and “show stats”-limit will work on multisites as expected again.

1.0.2

• Several language updates.
• Feature: Disable update notifications (expert settings).
• Feature: Choose between cURL and fopen if both are available (expert settings).
• Feature: Choose between POST and GET (expert settings).
• Widget: System details added.
• Widget: SEO widget re-enabled.
• Update: Replaced deprecated Matomo API calls.
• Bugfix: Settings link (toolbar, network mode) fixed.
• Bugfix: Encode blog titles in PHP mode.
• Bugfix: Pie charts won’t show to long legends if more than 10 items are available.

1.0.1

• Several language updates, amongst others Portuges (Brazil) finished. See https://www.transifex.com/organization/piwik/dashboard/wp-piwik for further information.
• Bugfix: If WP-Matomo is not configured properly or the connection to Matomo could not be established, the toolbar graph won’t cause a JavaScript error anymore.

1.0.0

• Feature: Expand “other” values on click
• Bugfix: Avoid notices on invalid file path (PHP API)
• Bugfix: Cookie lifetime input boxes are in some cases shown or hidden by mistake
• Network (multisite): Updated plugin to use wp_get_sites if possible
• Test script: Settings dump added

0.10.1.0

• Bugfix: Fixed memory & timeout issue on multisites

0.10.0.9

• Add clear cache function.
• Add clear settings (reset) function.

0.10.0.8

• Bugfix: Sitebrowser link (settings page, support) fixed
• Bugfix: Use new settings directly after saving (reloading is not necessary anymore)
• Optimized caching behaviour
• Language update (German, French)

0.10.0.7

• Bugfix: Opt-out shortcode output fix
• Bugfix: Opt-out shortcode will also work in “pro” and “php” mode
• Bugfix: Test script link (settings page, support) fixed
• Bugfix: Removed test script errors and notices
• Bugfix: Keep sure the revision ID is stored and avoid re-installing the plugin again and again
• Bugfix: http/pro – after configuration the settings page had to be reloaded once to start working
• Typo fixes

0.10.0.6

• Bugfix: Option storage bug if WP-Matomo is used as single site plugin on blog networks
• Bugfix: WP-Matomo will work without Matomo superuser access, again
• Bugfix: Choosing the site without auto config works again

0.10.0.5

• Bugfix: In some cases the update message did not disappear -> fixed
• Important change: If you want to upgrade from 0.8.x to 0.10.x, please install 0.9.9.18 first: https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-piwik.0.9.9.18.zip

0.10.0.4

• Bugfix: Settings link in admin notices fixed
• Bugfix: Shortcode result will appear where expected
• Bugfix: 0.9.9.18 settings will be kept (if WP-Matomo was not reconfigured after updating to 0.10.0.3, yet)
• Feature: If Matomo returns an error instead of a tracking code, this error will be visible

0.10.0.3

• Public beta of WP-Matomo 1.0
• Full refactored code
• Feature: Limit referral cookie lifetime
• Feature: Enable content tracking

0.9.9.18

• Improvement: Define additional file extensions for tracking downloads
• Improvement: Added a POT file to support translators (Note: 1.0 will change a lot, so please don’t spend too much time in translating the current version, e.g., by creating an all new translation. With 1.0 I will also offer a translation platform to support your work.)
• Improvement: If necessary, you can force Matomo to use HTTP or HTTPS now (e.g., to avoid redirections from http to https)
• Avoided a naming collision with Woo Theme

0.9.9.17

• Improvement: Updated the Matomo proxy script and added cURL support if url_fopen is not available
• Bugfix: Setup bug, see https://wordpress.org/support/topic/piwik-urlpath-not-saved
• Bugfix: CDN URL notice, see https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tracking-cdn-blank-gives-php-notice-which-breaks-the-trackback-js-code
• Bugfix: Fixed zlib compression notice, see https://wordpress.org/support/topic/v09914-is-bad
• Bugfix: Proxy script label links to proxy script checkbox
• Fixed a typo in German language file

0.9.9.16

• Bugfix: PHP API causes plain text output issue (see 0.9.9.11)
• Bugfix: Shortcode output translated

0.9.9.15

• Bugfix: One more commit error
• Bugfix: Adding up problem related to the overview widget
• Bugfix: Fixes missing brackets on ob_start
• Hotfix: Adds /0.9.9.15 to js/index.php to force a reload
• Bugifx: Replaced broken support link
• Added a bitcoin donation link

0.9.9.14

• Bugfix: Commit errors in 0.9.9.13

0.9.9.13

• Improvement: Only activate/ load admin components if an admin page is actually loaded. Thanks to Michael!
• Bugfix: Proxy tracking will work again. Matomo 2.7 or higher is recommended.
• Bugfix: Avoid a PHP notice in dashboard
• NOTE: If you update Matomo and use the “add tracking code” feature, please also update your WP-Matomo tracking code: Just open the WP-Matomo tracking code settings and save them again.

0.9.9.12

• Bugfix: Avoid forced relogin on site change (WP network)
• Bugfix: Avoid multiple annotations on post updates
• Bugfix: Use mergeSubdomains instead of mergeAliasURLs
• Feature: Added mergeAliasURLs as additional feature

0.9.9.11

• Bugfix: PHP API causes plain text output issue, see https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-cant-access-to-tabs-in-setting-after-configuration
• Bugfix: PHP API causes WordPress multisite login issue, see https://wordpress.org/support/topic/causes-multisite-superadmin-subsite-login-problem
• Bugfix: Removed PHP warning if annotations are enabled and annotations will work again, see https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warning-message-everywhere-in-the-backend-call_user_func_array-expects
• Feature: “Track visitors across all subdomains” script changes are done by Matomo now, see https://wordpress.org/support/topic/track-across-subdomains-wp-on-subdomain?replies=2
• Update: Flattr API update

0.9.9.10

• Bugfix: Multisite login issue, see https://wordpress.org/support/topic/0999-multisite-frontend-not-logged-in
• Bugfix: wpMandrill compatibility, see https://wordpress.org/support/topic/version-0999-conflicts-with-wpmandrill
• Feature: Show page views (actions) in “visitors last 30”

0.9.9.9

• Update: PHP API will use namespaces (Matomo 2.x compatibility)
• Update: Matomo URL isn’t necessary to use PHP API anymore.
• Feature: Limit cookie lifetime
• Feature: Track visitors across all subdomains
• Feature: Disable custom var box if necessary
• Feature: Choose if you like to add the tracking code to your site’s footer or header
• Feature: New shortcode (post)
• Feature: Add data-cfasync=false to script tag if necessary.
• Feature: Add annotations on new posts, see http://linuxundich.de/webhosting/beim-veroeffentlichen-von-wordpress-posts-eine-anmerkung-in-piwik-setzen/
• Bugfix: Do not load sparklines plugin if toolbar not shown
• Bugfix: PHP API will work again (urlencoding removed)
• jqPlot and jquery.sparkline updated
• Partly refactored code

0.9.9.8

• Feature: Per post stats (shown at the edit post page)
• Feature: Track RSS views using a measurement pixel

0.9.9.7

• Bugfix: Error messages won’t by cached anymore
• Bugfix: Custom vars will now be added properly
• Bugfix: Missing slash in proxy mode added
• Feature: Track users on admin pages

0.9.9.6

• Bugfix: Proxy script will work again
• Option: Enable/disable one week caching
• Load config file using full path to avoid side effects

0.9.9.5

• Fatal error on statistics settings page fixed

0.9.9.4

• Use Transients API (one week caching)
• Option: Track visitors without JavaScript, see http://piwik.org/faq/how-to/#faq_176

0.9.9.3

• Sparkline script update (IE 10 compatibility)
• Syntax error fixes

0.9.9.2

• Bugfix regarding tracking code changes in proxy mode, see https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-https-in-proxy-mode
• Feature: Change text “WP-Matomo” in menu items and dashboard widgets
• Code cleanup (“new” first step)
• Debugging: Logger added
• Avoid double slash (//) in tracking code

0.9.9.1

• CDN support: http and https separated, see https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-cdn-support-1
• Made code optional. Move code to site footer.

0.9.9.0

• Matomo 1.11 compatibility fixes (Matomo 1.11 required now!)
• Depending on Matomo 1.11 WP-Matomo will use async tracking now
• CDN support added, see https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-cdn-support-1

0.9.8.1

• Warning on empty data removed (overview table)
• Removed a possible deadlock
• Bugfix: Apply tracking code settings everytime the tracking code is updated
• Reset/uninstall script bugfix regarding network mode

0.9.8

• WordPress 3.5 compatibility fix: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/v35-errors-fix?replies=5 (Thanks Christian Foellmann!)
• Advanced Search Result Analytics, see http://piwik.org/docs/javascript-tracking/#toc-tracking-internal-search-keywords-categories-and-no-result-search-keywords
• Site Search stats added
• Use js/index.php: Replaces piwik.js and piwik.php by js/ (instead of piwik.js only)
• Connection timeout setting added
• Full reset option added
• Uninstall script added
• Stats metaboxes: Date formatted
• Use proxy settings defined in wp-config.php
• Matomo.php proxy script added (see http://piwik.org/faq/how-to/#faq_132)
• Bugfix: After upgrade, Matomo automatically places cookies again (https://wordpress.org/support/topic/after-upgrade-piwik-automatically-places-cookies-again)

0.9.7

• Shortcodes added
• WP-Matomo will rename sites in Matomo if site name changes in WordPress
• Bugfix: Tracking code changes should stay active after WP-Matomo updates

0.9.6.3

• Matomo 1.9+ compatibility fix (Matomo 1.9 required!)
• Browser version details added

0.9.6.2

• Bugfix: “Create Matomo site” link (network dashboard)

0.9.6.1

• Toolbar graph bugfix

0.9.6

• Option: Disable SSL peer verification (REST API)
• Option: Use own user agent
• Test script displays additional information (e.g. response headers)
• Using WordPress metabox concept properly
• Bugfix: Sparkline script only loaded if required
• Stats site supports up to 3 columns
• Network admin stats: Choose site using a paged table (instead of a select box).
• Feature: Custom variables, using custom post meta boxes.
• Some minor bugfixes

0.9.5

• WordPress 3.4 compatible (workaround)

0.9.4

• Requires at least Matomo 1.8.2!
• Choose between HTTP API or PHP API
• Show graph on WordPress Toolbar
• Add option to disable cookies – Thanks to Mathias T.!
• Update bugfix: Upgrading from WP-Matomo 0.8.7 or less will work again
• Some minor bugfixes

0.9.3

• Bugfix: Adding a new site will work again.

0.9.2

• Uses $wpdb->blogs instead of $wpdb->prefix.’blogs’ to keep it compatible to different database plugins
• Bugfix: SEO dashboard widget will work even if “last 30” is selected
• Bugfix: New created blogs won’t show “Please specify a value for ‘idSite’.” anymore.
• Bugfix: New network sites without title will be created
• Bugfix: Upgrading from old versions will work again
• Tabbed settings
• Debug tools added (testscript, site configuration overview and WP-Matomo reset)
• Support forum RSS feed
• Language updates
• Optionally use of set_time_limit(0) on stats page time out

0.9.1

• Bugfix: Usage as “Site Specific Plugin” mixed up the different sites settings (network mode)
• Hotfix: Avoid “Unknown site/blog” message without giving a chance to choose an existing site. Thank you, Taimon!

0.9.0

• Auto-configuration
• No code change required to enable WPMU mode anymore (Still experimental. Please create a backup before trying 0.9.0!)
• All features in WPMU available
• Bugfix: Removed unnecessary API calls done with each site request – Thank you, Martin B.!
• Bugfix: No stats on dashboard (sometimes this issue still occured, should be fixed now)
• Code cleanup (still not finished)
• Minor UI fixes
• Minor language/gettext improvements
• Security improvements
• Show SEO rank stats (very slow, caching will be added in 0.9.1)
• WordPress dashboard SEO rank widget (very slow, caching will be added in 0.9.1)
• New option: use js/index.php
• New option: avoid mod_security
• Multisite: Order blog list alphabetically (Network Admin stats site)
• Settings: Order site list alphabetically (site list shown if order conf is disabled)

0.8.10

• jqplot update (IE 9 compatibility) – Thank you, Martin!
• Bugfix: No stats on dashboard
• Layout fix: Graph width on dashboard
• Minor code cleanup

0.8.9

• WP 3.2 compatible, metabox support

0.8.8

• Bugfix: Will also work with index.php in Matomo path
• Bugfix: last30 dashboard widget – show correct bounce rate

0.8.7

• New language files (Azerbaijani, Greek, Russian)
• Fixed hardcoded database prefix (WPMU-Matomo)
• Minor bugfixes: avoid some PHP warnings

0.8.6

• Added an optional visitor chart to the WordPress dashboard
• WPMU/multisite bug fixed
• Minor bugfixes

0.8.5

• Select default date (today or yesterday) shown on statistics page
• Bugfix: Shortcut links are shown again
• German language file update
• Minor optical fixes (text length)

0.8.4

• New stats in overview box
• WP 3.x compability fixes (capability and deprecated function warnings)
• Some minor bugfixes
• New config handling
• Code clean up (not finished)

0.8.3

• Matomo 1.1+ compatibility fix

0.8.2

• Bugfix: WPMU URL update bug

0.8.1

• Use load_plugin_textdomain instead of load_textdomain
• Fixed js/css links if symbolic links are used
• Changed experimental WPMU support to experimental WP multisite support
• Try curl() before fopen() to avoid an OpenSSL bug
• Added Norwegian language file by Gormer
• Don’t worry – new features will follow soon 😉

0.8.0

• Using jqPlot instead of Google Chart API
• Some facelifting
• Some minor bugfixes

0.7.1

• Track 404-pages in an own category
• Get some page (and article) details
• Language updates

0.7.0

• Bugfix: Percent calculation fixed
• Bugfix: Visitor chart: No label overlapping if < 50 visitory/day
• Visitor chart: Added a red unique visitor average line
• Visitor table: Added a TOTAL stats line
• Pie charts: Show top 9 + “others”, new color range
• Option: Show Matomo shortcut in overview box
• Some performance optimization

0.6.4

• Unnecessary debug output removed
• German language file update
• WordPress dashboard widget: last 30 days view added

0.6.3

• Click at a visitor stats day-row to load its details
• Add stats overview to your WordPress dashboard

0.6.0

• Added experimental WPMU support
• Switch to disable Google Chart API
• Added Albanian [sq] language file
• Added Belorussian [be_BY] language file

0.5.0

• Display statistics to selected user roles
• Some HTML fixes (settings page)

0.4.0

• Tracking filter added
• Resolution stats
• Operating System stats
• Plugin stats

0.3.2

• If allow_url_fopen is disabled in php.ini, WP-Matomo tries to use CURL instead of file_get_contents

0.3.1

• WordPress 2.8 compatible
• Bugfix: Warnings on WP 2.8 plugins site
• Dashboard revised
• Partly optimized code

0.3.0

• WP-Matomo dashboard widgetized
• Stats-boxes sortable and closeable
• German language file added
• Browser stats and bounced visitors

0.2.0

• First public version