The MainWP Piwik (now known as Matomo) extension is designed to bridge the gap between your self-hosted analytics and your WordPress management dashboard. It allows you to monitor visitor data for all your child sites in one centralized location without having to log into separate Matomo (Piwik) installs or dashboards.
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The primary benefit is consolidation. Instead of jumping between tabs, you get:
Global Widget: A high-level overview on your main MainWP dashboard showing aggregate stats.
Individual Site Widgets: A dedicated Matomo widget on each child site’s overview page within MainWP.
One-Click Access: Quick links to jump directly into the full Matomo interface for any specific site.
The extension pulls critical metrics via API to show you how your sites are performing at a glance:
Traffic Overview: Total visits, page views, and unique visitors.
User Engagement: Bounce rates, average time on site, and pages per visit.
Trend Analysis: Ability to toggle between the last 7 days and the last 30 days of data.
This is a major feature for agencies. You can automatically pull Matomo analytics data into your MainWP Client Reports. This allows you to send professional, branded PDFs to clients that include their site’s traffic stats alongside their plugin/theme update history.
Consistent with the MainWP philosophy, this extension supports a privacy-first workflow:
No Third Parties: Since both MainWP and Matomo are self-hosted, you maintain 100% ownership of your (and your clients’) data.
GDPR Friendly: It avoids the privacy headaches often associated with Google Analytics by using Matomo’s privacy-centric tracking.
API Integration: You connect your Matomo instance using your Matomo URL and an API Authentication Token.
Site Mapping: Once connected, you simply “assign” which Matomo site ID corresponds to which MainWP child site through a dropdown menu.
