François Hodierne

Access Watch

<p><strong>End of life</strong></p>
<p><strong>The Access Watch plugin for WordPress is not supported anymore and the plugin is unactive.</strong></p>
<p>The Access Watch plugin is a traffic analysis and security service. Our technology processes visitor activity on your WordPress website and delivers insights to improve site security and performance.</p>
<p>Using innovative pattern matching and signature identification, our real-time analysis clearly breaks down your traffic between human and robots, immediately identifying threats and enabling you to block them from abusing your website. All in a beautiful and easy-to-use dashboard!</p>
<p>Access Watch is highly efficient in detecting and mitigating numerous website threats, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>brute force attacks</li>
<li>comment spam & trackback spam</li>
<li>contact form spam</li>
<li>suspicious registrations</li>
<li>suspicious xml-rpc requests (spam, attacks)</li>
<li>referer spam (also known as referral/referrer spam)</li>
</ul>


Access Watch: Security and Traffic Insights

Simple and Awesome

Understand precisely the robot traffic on your website and take actions to improve performance and security.

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<p>If you are not yet using Matomo On-Premise, Matomo Cloud or hosting your own instance of Matomo, please use the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/matomo/" rel="ugc">Matomo for WordPress plugin</a>.</p>
<p>This plugin uses the Matomo API to show your Matomo statistics in your WordPress dashboard. It’s also able to add the Matomo tracking code to your blog and to do some modifications to the tracking code. Additionally, WP-Matomo supports WordPress networks and manages multiple sites and their tracking codes.</p>
<p>To use this plugin the Matomo web analytics application is required. If you do not already have a Matomo setup (e.g., provided by your web hosting service), you have two simple options: use either a <a href="http://matomo.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">self-hosted Matomo</a> or a <a href="https://www.innocraft.cloud/?pk_campaign=WP-Piwik" rel="nofollow ugc">cloud-hosted Matomo by InnoCraft</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Requirements:</strong> PHP 7.0 (or higher), WordPress 5.0 (or higher), Matomo 4.0 (or higher)</p>
<p><strong>Languages:</strong> English, Albanian, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil). Partially supported: Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Hindi, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Norwegian, Persian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian</p>
<h4>What is Matomo?</h4>
<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qc2kooLNDiU?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span><br />
<a href="https://matomo.org/what-is-matomo/" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more.</a></p>
<h4>First steps</h4>
<ul>
<li>Learn how to install your own Matomo instance: <a href="https://matomo.org/docs/requirements/" rel="nofollow ugc">Requirements</a>, <a href="https://matomo.org/docs/installation-optimization/" rel="nofollow ugc">Installation</a>.</li>
<li>If you need support about Matomo, please have a look at the <a href="https://forum.matomo.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Matomo forums</a>.</li>
<li>Finally, you can start <a href="https://matomo.org/blog/2015/05/wordpress-integration-wp-piwik-1-0/" rel="nofollow ugc">setting up WP-Matomo</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Shortcodes</h4>
<p>You can use following shortcodes if activated:</p>
<pre><code>[wp-piwik module="overview" title="" period="day" date="yesterday"]
</code></pre>
<p>Shows overview table like WP-Matomo’s overview dashboard. See Matomo API documentation on VisitsSummary.get to get more information on period and day. Multiple data arrays will be cumulated. If you fill the title attribute, its content will be shown in the table’s title.</p>
<pre><code>[wp-piwik module="opt-out" language="en" width="100%" height="200px"]
</code></pre>
<p>Shows the Matomo opt-out Iframe. You can change the Iframe’s language by the language attribute (e.g. de for German language) and its width and height using the corresponding attributes.</p>
<pre><code>[wp-piwik module="post" range="last30" key="sum_daily_nb_uniq_visitors"]
</code></pre>
<p>Shows the chosen keys value related to the current post. You can define a range (format: lastN, previousN or YYYY-MM-DD,YYYY-MM-DD) and the desired value’s key (e.g., sum_daily_nb_uniq_visitors, nb_visits or nb_hits – for details see Matomo’s API method Actions.getPageUrl using a range).</p>
<pre><code>[wp-piwik]
</code></pre>
<p>is equal to <em>[wp-piwik module=”overview” title=”” period=”day” date=”yesterday”]</em>.</p>
<h4>Credits and Acknowledgements</h4>
<ul>
<li>Graphs powered by <a href="https://www.chartjs.org" rel="nofollow ugc">Chart.js</a> (MIT License).</li>
<li>All translators at Transifex and WordPress.</li>
<li>Anyone who donates to the WP-Matomo project, including the Matomo team!</li>
<li>All users who send me mails containing criticism, commendation, feature requests and bug reports – you help me to make WP-Matomo much better!</li>
</ul>
<p>Thank you all!</p>


Connect Matomo (WP-Matomo, WP-Piwik)

This plugin does what it claims very easily.  But also gives a lot of options if you want to customize your tracking.

Well designed plugin

Adds Matomo (former Piwik) statistics to your WordPress dashboard and is also able to add the Matomo Tracking Code to your blog.

Access Watch: Security and Traffic Insights vs Connect Matomo (WP-Matomo, WP-Piwik)