Metronet Tag Manager for WordPress Plugin Directory
Metronet Tag Manager is a WordPress app, with a 4.8 average rating from 8 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Metronet Tag Manager is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Leon Hitchens. With a rating of 4.8★ from 8 reviews.
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Metronet Tag Manager is a category-leading WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 8 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (4.8★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by Leon Hitchens — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (8) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Metronet Tag Manager works
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Integrate Google Tag Manager into your website.
The great thing about Google Tag Manager (GTM) is that you are able to gather most of your tracking scripts in one place. You can then fire these scripts whenever you want, specified by the rules you set up. This sounds great, right? Well it is. The only problem is that sometimes it takes a bit of implementing to set these rules up. This implementation can either be setting a dataLayer variable in the dataLayer before the tag manager script is loaded, or pushing a HTML event handler with the variable “event” to the dataLayer when a button is clicked. The problem is that this isn’t always that easy to do when you don’t have the ability/access to add the code to your site.
This is where the Metronet Tag Manager plugin shines. It really unlocks the power of the dataLayer so you can easily set macros and firing rules on almost any element.
This plugin lets you:
Easily add as many dataLayer variables on a per-post and per-page basis as you need.
The plugin already gives you six predefined dataLayer variables that you can change/remove or test the system with. These will be loaded on all pages and posts.
Set up separate dataLayer variables for pages that aren’t posts or pages (like archives etc).
Lets you easily add a HTML event handler to any content link with the GTM TinyMCE button in the WYSIWYG.
Lets you add your own unique ID or a class to each content link with the GTM TinyMCE button in the WYSIWYG.
Please note that for this plugin to work there is a slight customization that is needed. WordPress doesn’t let you load scripts straight after the opening tag which is where the GTM script needs to be placed to work correctly. To fix this you need to add <?php do_action( 'body_open' ); ?> just after the <body> tag and that’s it.
Note, if you are using WordPress 5.2. and up, contact your theme developer and ask them to insert <?php wp_body_open(); ?> just after the opening body tag of their theme. Here is some code to show the theme developer to make it compatible with Metronet Tag Manager.
Please let us know if you have any feature requests or if you have any issues with this plugin.
Below are a couple of resources you might find valuable if you are new to Google Tag Manager
Official Google Tag Manager website
https://developers.google.com/tag-manager/
Tracking Google Analytics Events with Google Tag Manager
http://moz.com/ugc/tracking-google-analytics-events-with-google-tag-manager
Make Analytics Better with Tag Management and a Data Layer
http://cutroni.com/blog/2012/05/14/make-analytics-better-with-tag-management-and-a-data-layer/
Filtering Variables If you choose to place variable values inside percentage signs (e.g., %replace_test%), you can filter these as necessary.
Here’s an example:
add_filter( 'gtm_replace_test', 'gtm_replace_test', 10, 3 ); function gtm_replace_test( $total_match, $match, $post_id ) { return "replaced with content"; }
The filter name is gtm_ with the suffix of replace_test, since that content is inbetween the percentage signs.
Keyword rankings
Metronet Tag Manager ranks for 1 keywords across WordPress Plugin Directory. Here are the top 1:
- 1.contactRank #870
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Frequently asked questions
What is Metronet Tag Manager?
Metronet Tag Manager is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.8-star rating from 8 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Leon Hitchens.