Epic Tracking – Click & Event Tracking for WordPress vs Machete

Epic Tracking lets you add event tracking to any element on your WordPress site using a visual editor. Click the element you want to track, give it a name, and you’re done — events start recording immediately. No code, no Google Tag Manager, no external scripts. Visual Click & Event Editor Open the visual editor on any page from the WordPress admin bar. Click a button, link, form, CTA, or any other element — give it a reference name and tag — and save. That’s it. The event is live and tracking starts immediately. Track button clicks, form submissions, link clicks, and CTA conversions Set up events in seconds with a point-and-click interface Organize events with custom tags for easy filtering No coding or tag manager knowledge required Built-in Analytics Dashboard The plugin includes a full analytics dashboard in your WordPress admin: Event trigger counts with unique visitor breakdowns Page view statistics with date range filtering Per-page detail views with referrer, device, browser, OS, and country data Daily traffic charts and trend visualization Sortable tables with pagination Self-Hosted & Privacy-Friendly All tracking data stays in your WordPress database. No data is sent to third-party analytics services. Visitors are identified using a single first-party cookie — no personal data is stored or shared. Features Visual event editor — Point-and-click setup for tracking clicks on any element Custom event tags — Organize events with tags for easy filtering and reporting Event analytics — See which events fire most, with trigger counts and unique visitors Page view tracking — Automatic visit logging with full referrer and device data Country geolocation — Automatic IP-based country detection for visitor locations Bot filtering — Known bots and crawlers are automatically excluded Role exclusion — Exclude administrators or any user role from being tracked Date range filtering — Quick presets (today, last 7 days, last 30 days) and custom ranges Lightweight — No impact on page load speed; tracking runs asynchronously after render Self-hosted — All data stored in your WordPress database, no external dependencies Clean uninstall — All tables and options are removed when you delete the plugin Use Cases Track which CTAs and buttons get the most clicks on your landing pages Measure form submission rates and conversion events without tag managers Monitor page views and traffic trends without Google Analytics See which referrers drive the most traffic to specific pages Understand visitor demographics: device type, browser, OS, and country Why Epic Tracking? Most WordPress event tracking requires Google Tag Manager, custom JavaScript, or expensive third-party services. Epic Tracking gives you a visual editor to set up event tracking in seconds — no code, no external scripts, no data leaving your server. External services This plugin uses the ip-api.com geolocation service to determine visitor country based on their IP address. An HTTP request is sent to ip-api.com each time a new visitor is recorded (unless a cached result is available). The request contains only the visitor’s IP address. No other personal data is sent. Service: ip-api.com Data sent: visitor IP address When: on each new visit (results are cached for 24 hours) Terms of service: ip-api.com/docs/legal Privacy policy: ip-api.com/docs/legal

Machete is a simple suite of tools that solves common WordPress annoyances using as few resources as possible. Machete doesn’t cover every single use case, but there is a huge amount of sites that would require less plugins if they used Machete. All Machete tools have two things in common: they solve problems faced by many web developers and they do it using as few server resources as possible. So far, Machete includes the following tools: WordPress Optimization WordPress places a lot of code inside the tag just to keep backward compatibility or to enable optional features. You can disable most of it and save some time from each page request while making your installation safer. Cookies & GDPR Warning We know you hate cookie warning bars. Well, this is the least hateable cookie bar you’ll find. It is really light, doesn’t affect your PageSpeed score and plays well with static cache plugins. Analytics and custom code You don’t need a zillion plugins to perform easy tasks like inserting a verification meta tag (Google Search Console, Bing, Pinterest), a json-ld snippet or a custom stylesheet (Google Fonts, Print Styles, accessibility tweaks…). The Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager tracking codes are PageSpeed optimized, GPDR friendly. Maintenance mode The maintenance mode that ships with WordPress is just a basic lock-down that is activated whenever you do a major update. With machete Maintenance Mode you can hide your unfinished page from visitors and search engines, give your clients a secure temporary access and lock your site without affecting your SEO. Post & Page cloner Adds a “duplicate” link to post, page and most post types lists. Also adds “copy to new draft” function to the post editor. Social Sharing Buttons Social sharing done the Machete way. The icons are made as a custom webfont embedded in a minified CSS file that only weighs 5.8KB. The sharing actions use each platform’s native share URL. WooCommerce Utils WooCommerce was designed to work for every possible use case, but that often leads to unexpected behavior. These simple fixes can improve the WooCommerce user experience by making it behave as clients expect.