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.

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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.

ZMPlugin vs Connect Matomo (WP-Matomo, WP-Piwik)