Event Organiser vs Goal Tracker – Custom Event Tracking for GA4

Event Organiser adds event management that integrates well with your WordPress site. By using WordPress’ in-built ‘custom post type’, this plug-in allows you to create events that have the same functionality as posts, while adding further features that allow you to manage your events. This includes the possibility of repeating your event according to complex schedules and assign your events to venues. This can all be done through an intuitive user interface, which allows you to view your events in the familiar WordPress list or in a calendar page in the admin area. User Docs | Function Reference | Forums | Demo | Booking Add-on Available Extensions Event Organiser Pro Event Organiser Frontend Submissions Discount Codes Stripe Gateway Posterboard (free) CSV export (free) iCal Sync A full list of available extensions can be found here. Features For the user Create one-time events or recurring events. Allows complex recurring patterns for events. You can create events that last an arbitrary time, and repeat over a specified period. Supports complex schedules such as On the third Tuesday of every fourth month or Every month on the 16th. Ability to add or remove specific dates to an event Event functions available which extend the post functions (e.g. the_title(),get_the_author(), the_author()) to output or return event data (the start date-time, the venue etc). For examples of their use see the documentation or the included template files. Create and maintain venues for your events, with Google maps support and a fully-featured content editor. Widgets: Calendar widget – displays a calendar (identical to the standard WordPress Calendar) Event List widget – displays a list of events, with options to specify the number of events, restrict by categories or venues etc. Event Agenda widget Year, month and day archive pages Shortcodes: (full)Calendar, includes optional category & venue filters. (widget) Calendar Event List (similar to Event List widget) Event Agenda (similar to Event Agenda widget) Venue map Subscribe to event feeds Relative date queries (for example, query events that finished in the last 24 hours, or events starting in the coming week). Assign events to categories and tags, and view events by category or tag. Colour-coded event categories. Custom permissions allow to specifiy which roles have the ability to create, edit and delete events or manage venues. Venue pages, to view events by venue. Export/import events to and from ICAL files. Delete individual occurrences of events. Public events feed: allow visitors to subscribe to your events, or a particular venue / category. Supports ‘pretty permalinks’ for event pages, event archives, event category and venue pages. (Optionally) automatically delete expired events. For the developer Adds an event custom post type that fits naturally into WordPress and allows for all the functionality of ‘posts’. Respects the template hierarchy. Default templates can be over-ridden by including the appropriately named template files in your theme folder. Plug-in actions and filters are provided to modify the behaviour of the plug-in (hook reference Extensive function API & documentation Javascript actions and filters to modify interaction with the calendars and maps Provide custom templates for shortcodes, widgets and ICAL export Custom metaboxes and meta data support for venues (see tutorial). Minified javascript files are used, with the originals provided for ease of developing Booking add-on available Localisation A big thank you to those who have provided translations for Event Organiser. If you wish to help out with translating the plug-in, you can do so here. Arabic – Layla, Mohamed Nazir Bulgarian – Parvan Voynov Catalan – jordioniric, marc.antje Chinese – sdsunqian Czech – Jan Kupsa Croatian – Branimir Danish – Intox Studio, Malthe, Morten Lyng Dutch – Ingrid Ekkers, Roel English (Canada) – GhostToast Estonian – Kristjan Roosipuu Finnish – Kari Tolonen, Juhani Marttila French – Remy Perona, Arnaud German – Martin Grether & Henning Matthaei Greek – Vasilis, Panagiotis Hebrew (Israel) – heli Hungarian – Csaba Erdei Icelandic – HrHagedorn Indonesian – Daniel Tampubolon Italian – Emilio Frusciante, Pio Muto, Daniele Piccoli Japanese – ogawa, tkj, takeshi terai, haya. Latvian – Kristaps Lithuaniun – Stephan Siegi Macedonian – Aleksandar Norwegian – Erlend Birkedal Norweign (Bokmål) – DagC Persian (Iran, Islamic Republic of) – Polish – Bartosz Arendt Portuguese (Brazil) – Rafael Wahasugui, rafaelkvidal Portuguese (Portugal) – Emanuel Teixeira Romanian – raduanastasedev Russian – Sergei Slovak – ViRPo Slovenian – Matej Spanish (Spain)- Joseba Sanchez, jagarre, jelena kovacevic, courtesy of WebHostingHub Spanish (Peru) – Pedro Valverde Swedish – Sofia BrÃ¥vander, Urban Norlander Thai – Nibhon, Wuttichai Songprapai Turkish – Gökhan DAMGACI Ukranian – Максим Кобєлєв

TLDR: Goal Tracker for Google Analytics GA4 is a no-code plugin that helps you set up event tracking for your WordPress website. This plugin makes it easy to track in-page elements such as call-to-action buttons, forms, ad visibility, and more with Google Analytics GA4. Best of all is that you don’t have to write custom code. Working with GA4 can be challenging, especially if you migrate from Universal Analytics. But if you give it a chance, GA4 can become a powerful tool. We set out to help you become an advanced user of Google Analytics without having to learn code. 🎁 What’s in the box? Track Links – both internal and external Track Email Links – We create a dedicated event for email links. Visibility Tracking – Fire an event when an element comes into view on the page (Ads, CTA buttons, Pricing Tables…) Click Tracking – Track user clicks on any element on the page, such as a contact form submit button or a call to action button. Recommended Events – Our user interface takes out the guesswork when using “recommended events”. Much more to come in the next few months. Upgrade to our Pro version: Goal Tracker for Google Analytics GA4 is the professional version of our plugin and adds more tracking capabilities: WooCommerce Tracking User Tracking Placeholders to enrich your event data Track Self-Hosted Media audio and video YouTube and Vimeo support Plugin Management permissions for teams Track Contact Form 7 submissions Access to our Pro support team Want to see the plugin in action? 🏷 Already using Google Tag Manager? While Google Tag Manager has been here for years, we think that could improve when it comes to event tracking. Goal Tracker for Google Analytics reduces the guesswork involved with recommended events and only takes a few clicks. Oh, and the plugin can work on a website that already uses Google Tag Manager. Need help? You can read the documentation pages here – https://www.wpgoaltracker.com/ga4-help-center/ 🗓 Want to reach out? If you have any questions or suggestions or need help setting up the plugin, you can schedule a call, and we’ll be happy to chat.