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Tracks privacy acceptance on account creation and checkout, including IP address, date, and time

Privacy Acceptance Tracker

Tracks privacy acceptance on account creation and checkout, including IP address, date, and time

Mauricio Altamirano

Pagemachine

Pagemetrics for Matomo adds privacy-friendly, server-side analytics to WordPress by 
leveraging the <code>pagemachine/matomo-tracking</code> PHP library. When enabled, the 
plugin sends page view and optional download events from your WordPress site 
directly to a Matomo instance without loading Matomo’s JavaScript tracker.
Key benefits:
<ul>
<li>Track page views on the server with full control over attributes such as title, URL and referrer.</li>
<li>Optional download tracking rewrites file links and records the click before redirecting visitors.</li>
<li>Optional AI assistant bot tracking detects crawls from ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and others and forwards them to Matomo’s dedicated AI Assistants report.</li>
<li>Multisite aware – network admins can define defaults, individual sites can override them.</li>
<li>Respects Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control headers through the underlying library.</li>
<li>Logs issues to the WordPress debug log when <code>WP_DEBUG</code> is enabled.</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Developer Hooks</h3>
Page view tracking:
<ul>
<li><code>pm_matomo_tracking_should_track_request</code> — Return <code>false</code> to skip page view tracking for the current request.</li>
</ul>
Download tracking:
<ul>
<li><code>pm_matomo_tracking_should_rewrite_downloads</code> — Return <code>false</code> to keep original download URLs for the current post.</li>
<li><code>pm_matomo_tracking_is_download_url</code> — Decide whether a specific URL should be rewritten (receives URL and default extension list).</li>
<li><code>pm_matomo_tracking_download_extensions</code> — Adjust the list of file extensions that count as downloads.</li>
<li><code>pm_matomo_tracking_download_url</code> — Customize the generated redirect URL used for download tracking.</li>
<li><code>pm_matomo_tracking_download_redirect_status</code> — Change the HTTP status code used when redirecting to the original file.</li>
</ul>
AI assistant bot tracking:
<ul>
<li><code>pm_matomo_tracking_ai_bot_user_agents</code> — Extend or replace the list of User-Agent substrings used to detect AI bots.</li>
</ul>
General:
<ul>
<li><code>pm_matomo_tracking_log_message</code> — Listen to debug messages emitted while <code>WP_DEBUG</code> is enabled.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Example usages</h3>
<pre><code>// Skip tracking for administrators.
add_filter('pm_matomo_tracking_should_track_request', static function ($shouldTrack) {
 return current_user_can('manage_options') ? false : $shouldTrack;
});

// Keep original download URLs on the privacy policy page.
add_filter('pm_matomo_tracking_should_rewrite_downloads', static function ($shouldRewrite) {
 return is_page('privacy-policy') ? false : $shouldRewrite;
});

// Force CDN assets to be treated as downloads.
add_filter('pm_matomo_tracking_is_download_url', static function ($decision, $url) {
 return str_contains($url, 'cdn.example.com/assets/') ? true : $decision;
}, 10, 2);

// Add extra file types to download tracking.
add_filter('pm_matomo_tracking_download_extensions', static function ($extensions) {
 $extensions = array_merge($extensions, ['svg', 'heic']);
 return array_unique($extensions);
});

// Append a checksum to rewritten download URLs.
add_filter('pm_matomo_tracking_download_url', static function ($trackingUrl, $target, $label) {
 $checksum = substr(hash('sha256', $target . $label), 0, 12);
 return add_query_arg('pm_checksum', $checksum, $trackingUrl);
}, 10, 3);

// Use a 307 redirect instead of the default 302.
add_filter('pm_matomo_tracking_download_redirect_status', static function () {
 return 307;
});

// Add a custom bot to AI assistant tracking.
add_filter('pm_matomo_tracking_ai_bot_user_agents', static function (array $substrings): array {
 $substrings[] = 'MyCustomBot';
 return $substrings;
});

// Forward debug messages to the PHP error log while developing.
add_action('pm_matomo_tracking_log_message', static function ($level, $message) {
 if (!defined('WP_DEBUG') || WP_DEBUG !== true) {
 return;
 }

 // phpcs:ignore WordPress.PHP.DevelopmentFunctions.error_log_error_log
 error_log(sprintf('[Pagemetrics for Matomo][%s] %s', strtoupper((string) $level), $message));
}, 10, 2);
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