Privacy-first web analytics for WordPress via OpenPanel – the open-source Google Analytics alternative. Self-hosted or cloud, GDPR-friendly.

Steffen Kaster

KD Tracking Connector for OpenPanel connects your WordPress site to <a href="https://openpanel.dev" rel="nofollow ugc">OpenPanel Analytics</a> – a powerful, open-source alternative to Google Analytics that you can fully self-host.
No data sent to Google. No surprise tracking. Full control over where your visitor data lives.
This plugin works completely independent of your active theme and is configured entirely via Settings → OpenPanel in the WordPress admin.
<h4>Why OpenPanel?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Open source – MIT-licensed, fully auditable source code</li>
<li>Self-hostable – Your analytics data stays on your own server</li>
<li>Cloud option – Use the official OpenPanel Cloud with zero setup</li>
<li>Cookie-friendly – Basic page-view tracking works without cookies</li>
<li>Google Analytics alternative – Real-time stats, custom events, session replay</li>
</ul>
<h4>Plugin Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Self-Hosted & Cloud – Enter your API URL for self-hosted, or leave empty for the official cloud</li>
<li>Local Script Delivery – <code>op1.js</code> is served from the plugin folder, no external CDN request on page load</li>
<li>Flexible Tracking – Page views, outgoing links and <code>data-track</code> HTML attribute tracking individually configurable</li>
<li>Session Replay – Record mouse movements, scroll behaviour and clicks (optional, with input field masking)</li>
<li>Privacy Controls – Honour Do Not Track (DNT), exclude logged-in users, disable tracking when WP_DEBUG is active</li>
<li>Multilingual – Ships with German and English, fully translatable via <code>.pot</code> template</li>
</ul>
<h4>Settings</h4>
All options are available under Settings → OpenPanel:
<ul>
<li>Enable OpenPanel – Enable or disable the tracking script globally. (Default: off)</li>
<li>Client ID – The Client ID of your OpenPanel application.</li>
<li>API URL (Self-Hosted) – Your self-hosted API endpoint, e.g. <code>https://analytics.example.com/api</code>. Leave empty to use the official cloud.</li>
<li>Serve op1.js locally – Load the tracking script from the plugin folder instead of an external CDN. (Default: on)</li>
<li>Track page views – Automatically track every page view. (Default: on)</li>
<li>Track outgoing links – Track clicks on external links. (Default: on)</li>
<li>Track data attributes – Track events via <code>data-track</code> HTML attributes. (Default: on)</li>
<li>Enable Session Replay – Record mouse movements, scroll behaviour and clicks. (Default: off)</li>
<li>Mask form fields – Prevent plain-text capture of input fields in session replays. (Default: on)</li>
<li>Skip logged-in users – Exclude admins and logged-in users from tracking. (Default: on)</li>
<li>Respect Do Not Track – Honour the DNT browser signal. (Default: on)</li>
<li>Disable on WP_DEBUG – No tracking on local or staging environments when <code>WP_DEBUG</code> is active. (Default: on)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Third-Party Services</h3>
This plugin integrates with OpenPanel Analytics (<a href="https://openpanel.dev" rel="nofollow ugc">openpanel.dev</a>), an open-source web analytics platform.
Cloud service (API URL left empty): Visitor data including page views, custom events and optional session recordings is transmitted to servers operated by OpenPanel at <code>https://openpanel.dev</code>.
Self-hosted: All data goes exclusively to your own server. Nothing is sent to <code>openpanel.dev</code>.
<ul>
<li><a href="https://openpanel.dev" rel="nofollow ugc">OpenPanel website</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/openpanel-dev/openpanel" rel="nofollow ugc">Source code on GitHub (MIT licence)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://openpanel.dev/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy policy</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Steffenkt/KD-Tracking-Connector-for-OpenPanel-WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin repository</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Bundled JavaScript Files</h4>
<pre><code>assets/js/op1.js and `assets/js/op1-replay.js` are local copies of the official OpenPanel tracking scripts in minified form. The non-minified source code is available at [github.com/openpanel-dev/openpanel](https://github.com/openpanel-dev/openpanel).
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