OpenPanel.dev

OpenPanel is an open-source web and product analytics platform that serves as a privacy-friendly alternative to traditional analytics solutions. This WordPress plugin seamlessly integrates <a href="https://openpanel.dev" rel="nofollow ugc">OpenPanel</a> with your WordPress site while maximizing reliability and avoiding ad-blocker interference.
<h4>Key Features</h4>
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<li>🚀 Ad-Blocker Resistant: Serves analytics scripts and API calls from your own domain</li>
<li>📊 Real-Time Analytics: Get instant insights without processing delays</li>
<li>🔒 Privacy-Friendly: Cookie-less tracking that respects user privacy (no cookie banners needed!)</li>
<li>⚡ Performance Optimized: Caches scripts locally and uses efficient proxying</li>
<li>🎯 Product Analytics: Funnel analysis, retention tracking, and conversion metrics</li>
<li>📈 Web Analytics: Visitors, referrals, top pages, devices, sessions, and bounce rates</li>
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<h4>How It Works</h4>
This plugin integrates OpenPanel with WordPress in a blocker-resistant way:
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<li>Inlines <code>op1.js</code> directly into your pages (cached locally for 1 week; falls back to CDN if needed)</li>
<li>Bootstraps the OpenPanel SDK with your Client ID automatically</li>
<li>Proxies all SDK requests through WordPress REST API (<code>/wp-json/openpanel/</code>)</li>
<li>Preserves all request methods, headers, query parameters, and body data</li>
<li>Handles CORS properly for cross-origin requests</li>
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Why use a proxy? Serving scripts and data from your own domain origin avoids third-party blocking and improves tracking reliability significantly.
<h4>Privacy Benefits</h4>
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<li>🍪 No Cookie Banners Required: OpenPanel uses cookie-less tracking, so you don’t need annoying cookie consent banners</li>
<li>🛡️ GDPR Friendly: Compliant with privacy regulations without requiring user consent for basic analytics</li>
<li>🔐 Data Ownership: You maintain full control over your analytics data</li>
<li>🚫 No Personal Data Collection: Tracks behavior patterns without collecting personally identifiable information</li>
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Learn more at <a href="https://openpanel.dev" rel="nofollow ugc">OpenPanel.dev</a>
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin connects to external OpenPanel.dev services to provide web analytics functionality. Here’s what you need to know:
OpenPanel.dev Analytics Service
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What it is: OpenPanel.dev is an open-source web and product analytics platform that combines the power of Mixpanel with the ease of Plausible and one of the best Google Analytics replacements.
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What data is sent:
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<li>User Agent: Browser and device information for compatibility and analytics</li>
<li>IP Address: Collected from X-Forwarded-For header for geolocation (no personal identification)</li>
<li>Page Information: Current page URL/path and referrer information</li>
<li>Event Data: Other user-defined properties when custom events are triggered via <code>window.op('track', 'event_name')</code></li>
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When data is sent:
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<li>Page Views: Only when “Track page views automatically” is enabled in settings</li>
<li>Outgoing Link Clicks: Only when “Track clicks on outgoing links” is enabled in settings </li>
<li>Custom Events: Only when website owner implements <code>window.op('track', 'custom_event')</code> method</li>
<li>No background tracking – data is sent only for the specific interactions you’ve configured</li>
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External endpoints used:
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<li><code>https://openpanel.dev/op1.js</code> – Analytics tracking script (cached locally)</li>
<li><code>https://api.openpanel.dev/</code> – Analytics data collection API (proxied through your WordPress site)</li>
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Legal Information:
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<li>Service Terms: https://openpanel.dev/terms</li>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://openpanel.dev/privacy</li>
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This integration is essential for the plugin’s core functionality of providing website analytics. The plugin uses a proxy approach to serve requests through your own domain to improve reliability and avoid ad-blocker interference.

OpenPanel

OpenPanel WordPress plugin - Privacy-friendly analytics with ad-blocker resistance. Inline tracking scripts and proxy API calls through your domain.

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BotsMap is a lightweight, privacy-first sitemap management plugin that gives you full control over which XML sitemaps are visible to search engine bots. Designed for transparency and simplicity, it helps you manage indexing rules without bloated features or hidden tracking. Perfect for site owners who value ethical SEO and want to decide exactly what crawlers can see.
Perfect for excluding sensitive, temporary, or low-value content from search engine indexing — without relying on third-party SEO plugins.
Key Features:
✅ Individual Post Exclusion: Easily remove any single post or page.
✅ Crawl Budget Optimization: Automatically prunes low-value URLs (like empty archives or thin content) before a bot even attempts to visit them.
✅ Archive Control: Turn off indexing for author, or category archives.
✅ Smart WooCommerce Filtering: Prevent “Out of Stock” or “Hidden” products from diluting your search presence.
✅ Zero-Bloat Execution: All crawl management logic runs at the server level with zero impact on your front-end PageSpeed scores.
Give search engines a cleaner, more direct path to your valuable content.
<h3>Docs and FAQ</h3>
You can find <a href="https://wpvedam.com/botsmap-xml-sitemap-manager/" rel="nofollow ugc">docs</a>, <a href="https://wpvedam.com/botsmap-xml-sitemap-manager/" rel="nofollow ugc">FAQ</a>.
<h3>Privacy</h3>
This plugin does not set cookies or track individual users.
It manages and controls WordPress core XML sitemaps. These sitemaps are shared with third‑party search engines (such as Google and Bing) to improve site indexing and visibility. No personal data is collected, stored, or transmitted by this plugin.
Site owners should be aware that search engines may process the sitemap data according to their own privacy policies.

BotsMap – XML Sitemap Manager

BotsMap - XML Sitemap Manager is your ultimate SEO, crawler management tool to allow you disable sitemaps generated by WordPress.

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