Tracking Wordpress user ID with Tag Manager

Tag Manager
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I am just starting to dive into Tag Manager. I am using a small Wordpress installation for that. I changed the old piwik code for the Tag Manager code in the header. All works fine. However before I was able to track wordpress user ID’s via the Piwik plugin settings. I am not sure how do to the same via Tag Managers Matomo configuration.

Can someone help me out here?

Kind regards

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Anyone willing to help me out here?

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Hi Japhy,

what was the old code you used in the wordpress site to track the user ID’s?

Regards,
Peter

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HI Peter,

<!-- Matomo -->
<script type="text/javascript">
  var _paq = _paq || [];
  /* tracker methods like "setCustomDimension" should be called before "trackPageView" */
  _paq.push(['setUserId', 'john']);
_paq.push(['trackPageView']);
  _paq.push(['trackAllContentImpressions']);
  _paq.push(['enableLinkTracking']);
  (function() {
    var u="//domain.com/";
    _paq.push(['setTrackerUrl', u+'piwik.php']);
    _paq.push(['setSiteId', '3']);
    var d=document, g=d.createElement('script'), s=d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
    g.type='text/javascript'; g.async=true; g.defer=true; g.src=u+'piwik.js'; s.parentNode.insertBefore(g,s);
  })();
</script>
<!-- End Matomo Code -->

I was using wordpress plugin WP-Piwik 1.0.19

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I suppose I have to pick a viariable here in the matomo config?

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And I suppose somehow I have to use


_paq.push(['setUserId', 'john']);

But I am not a developer, just a user, it’s been quite a steep learning curve for me.

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Hi,

The logged in user in Wordpress isn’t something that you can simply read via Javascript. You would need to modify Wordpress so it stores the username in a Javascript variable. (Which I think is what WP-Matomo does out of the box)

Maybe when @WP_PiwikDev or someone else has time to add Tag Manager support to WP-Matomo they could make it possible to set the User ID without the rest of the tracking code.

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Hi Lukas, thanks so much for clearing that up for me. Much appreciated.

Hopefully someone adds support for TM in the future!

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Hi there.

If you are using the Wordpress plugin, you can just enable the user tracking without changing the tracking code. Just have a look at WP-Matomo’s settings, tracking tab, and choose the user ID (mail address, WordPress user name, WP-User-ID, …) from the last select box shown there.

Afterwards WP-Matomo will set setUserId automatically.

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Hi,
I am not sure I follow. I already did that and it works perfectly. However the tracking code field in the wp-matomo plugin contains my matomo tracking code, not the matomo tag manager code. I would like to use user id with the tag manager tracking code.