ZuestMedia

<p><a href="https://zuestmedia.com/zmplugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">ZMPlugin</a> offers a whole range of features that every WordPress website administrator will benefit from:</p>
<ol>
<li>Cookie consent banner (GDPR compliant)</li>
<li>Tracking script integration (GA4, Tagmanager, Matomo)</li>
<li>Private mode with redirection</li>
<li>SMTP for WordPress transactional mails </li>
<li>Block Patterns</li>
</ol>
<h3>Plugin Features</h3>
<h4>Cookie consent banner</h4>
<p>Cookie Consent Banner for GDPR compliant use of tracking solutions. Tracking scripts will only be loaded after consent has been given.</p>
<h4>Tracking script integration</h4>
<p>Google Analytics 4, Google Tag Manager or Matomo (self-hosted) can be integrated. GDPR compliant if configured with cookie consent banner.</p>
<h4>Private Mode</h4>
<p>Private mode to redirect visitors to the login form or to a page of their choice. Useful for maintenance work or not yet finished websites.</p>
<h4>SMTP Mail</h4>
<p>Send all mails sent via wp_mail() from your own SMTP server. Works for all system mailings and also with contact form 7.</p>
<h4>Block Patterns</h4>
<p>Access to a selection of pre-built block patterns that can be easily inserted in the WordPress Gutenberg editor.</p>
<h4>WP Dashboard Options</h4>
<p>Personalization options for the WordPress dashboard. WordPress logo, help tabs as well as footer text can be customized.</p>
<h4>WP Login Options</h4>
<p>Personalization options for the WordPress login form (wp-login.php). The login logo as well as the redirect destination can be customized.</p>
<h3>Theme Companion Features</h3>
<p>As a companion plugin for our <a href="https://zuestmedia.com/themes/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Themes</a>, ZMPlugin extends your WordPress dashboard with theme settings, customizer settings and the design explorer for importing starter designs.</p>
<h4>Block Templates</h4>
<p>Our Themes use block templates to display static or dynamic content. All block templates can be edited using the WordPress Gutenberg editor.</p>
<h4>Theme & Customizer settings</h4>
<p>When using a ZuestMedia WordPress Theme, various new menus and settings are added to the Dashboard and Customizer for customizing the theme.</p>
<h4>Design Explorer</h4>
<p>The design explorer offers the possibility to import directly premade starter designs.</p>
<p>Only available in combination with ZuestMedia Themes, e.g. Corporate or <a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/zmt-modular/" rel="ugc">Modular</a>.</p>
<h3>Resources</h3>
<p>Learn more about ZuestMedia WordPress <a href="https://zuestmedia.com/themes/" rel="nofollow ugc">themes</a> and <a href="https://zuestmedia.com/plugins/" rel="nofollow ugc">plugins</a>.</p>
<p>If you have any questions or need help, visit the <a href="https://zuestmedia.com/doc/zmplugin-documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">ZMPlugin documentation</a>.</p>
<p>You can also find us on <a href="https://github.com/zuestmedia/" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>!</p>
<h3>The plugin uses the following third-party resources</h3>
<ul>
<li>uikit CSS, JS, Icons Framework<br />
License: MIT<br />
Source: https://getuikit.com/</li>
</ul>
<h3>Copyright</h3>
<p>ZMPlugin WordPress Plugin, Copyright 2023 zuestmedia.com<br />
ZMPlugin is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL</p>


ZMPlugin

ZMPlugin contains various essential tools for WordPress websites that every webmaster may need and is the companion plugin to our themes.

Pagemachine

Mauricio Altamirano

<p>Pagemetrics for Matomo adds privacy-friendly, server-side analytics to WordPress by<br />
leveraging the <code>pagemachine/matomo-tracking</code> PHP library. When enabled, the<br />
plugin sends page view and optional download events from your WordPress site<br />
directly to a Matomo instance without loading Matomo’s JavaScript tracker.</p>
<p>Key benefits:</p>
<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>
<p>Looking for expert help with Matomo or server-side tracking? <strong>Pagemachine</strong> offers<br />
consulting, implementation and ongoing support via our <strong>Pagemetrics</strong> solution.<br />
More info: <a href="https://pagemetrics.eu/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pagemetrics.eu</a></p>
<h3>Developer Hooks</h3>
<p>Page view tracking:</p>
<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>
<p>Download tracking:</p>
<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>
<p>AI assistant bot tracking:</p>
<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>
<p>General:</p>
<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);
</code></pre>


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