TrueAna – True Analytics Dashboard vs Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts – Shareaholic

Google Analytics 4 wasn’t built with WordPress or WooCommerce in mind. Getting real store and website data into GA4 usually means wiring up Google Tag Manager, hand-coding dataLayer pushes for every events, and then leaving your WordPress dashboard entirely just to check how everything performing. That’s the gap TrueAna closes. TrueAna connects your site to Google Analytics 4 with a single OAuth sign-in, fires 35+ WordPress & WooCommerce events automatically with zero configuration, and puts real GA4 report data — the same numbers you’d see in analytics.google.com — directly inside your WordPress admin. No Tag Manager. No custom dataLayer code. No switching tabs to check how your website is doing. Who’s it for? * Content sites & bloggers — get audience, acquisition, and behavior reports plus GA4 dashboard widgets right on the WordPress home screen, no separate login required. * WooCommerce store owners — see product views, cart abandonment, checkout drop-off, and revenue by traffic source without leaving wp-admin, and fire Facebook, Google Ads, TikTok(Pro), and Pinterest pixels(Pro) off the same events. * Agencies & freelancers — connect a client’s GA4 property once and hand them a dashboard they can actually read, instead of teaching them the GA4 interface. * Subscription businesses — track the full WooCommerce Subscriptions lifecycle (renewals, plan switches, churn) as GA4 events, and watch MRR and churn rate in a dedicated dashboard (Pro). * Publishers with multiple authors — see which authors, categories, tags, and post types actually drive pageviews with Content Analytics Reports, instead of digging through GA4’s generic page-path view (Pro). * Lead-gen & SaaS sites — track form views and submissions per form, with conversion rate against the previous period, so you know which forms are actually producing leads (Pro). * Marketers running landing pages — track clicks on any link or button site-wide, from CTA buttons to outbound links, without touching Tag Manager (Pro). * Startups & early-stage founders — get straight to traffic source, channel, and acquisition data from day one to see what’s working, without setting up GA4 Explorations or waiting on an analyst. * Video-driven sites & course creators — see plays, completion rate, and average watch depth per video across YouTube, Vimeo, and HTML5 embeds, so you know which videos actually hold attention (Pro). * Ad-funded content sites — pull Google AdSense revenue and ad clicks by page title into the same dashboard as your traffic data, instead of cross-referencing two separate logins (Pro). * Paid traffic managers — build and track UTM campaign links from inside wp-admin, then watch performance roll up in Acquisition Reports without a separate spreadsheet (Pro). * Multi-site consultants & in-house teams — save custom GA4 Explore-style reports as pinned dashboard tabs and reorder them per site, so recurring client or stakeholder reviews take minutes, not a rebuild each time (Pro). How It Works TrueAna talks to Google’s APIs on your behalf using OAuth 2.0. After you connect your Google account, the plugin uses your access token to: Send tracking events to GA4 via the standard gtag.js snippet, and server-side via the GA4 Measurement Protocol when an API secret is configured. Pull report data from the GA4 Data API and render it inside your WordPress admin dashboard. Manage custom dimensions in GA4 through the Management API (Pro only). No Analytics data passes through a third-party proxy server. Every Google Analytics Data API call goes directly from your WordPress site to Google. APIs Used Google Analytics Data API — powers all dashboard reports inside WordPress (audience, acquisition, behavior, and all Pro report tabs). GA4 Measurement Protocol — server-side event delivery when an API secret is configured, so events still fire when JavaScript is blocked. Google Analytics Management API v3 — Pro only; auto-creates custom dimensions in your GA4 property with a single click. Google OAuth 2.0 — secure sign-in; TrueAna requests only the Analytics read/write scopes it needs. gtag.js (Google tag) — Google’s standard tracking snippet, loaded on your site’s frontend to send events and pageviews to GA4 and Google Ads. TrueAna Proxy Service – The plugin uses a proxy service for OAuth authentication with Google services. What You Can Track GA4 connection — one-click OAuth or manual Measurement ID + API Secret entry, User ID tracking, IP anonymization, Google Consent Mode v2, enhanced link attribution. User activity — login (with checkout vs. My Account context), login errors, logout, registration form views, new sign-ups, reviews, comments. WooCommerce shopping journey — every step from product view to purchase, refunds, and coupon usage (30+ events, all free — see the full list below). Conversion pixels — Facebook Pixel and Google Ads out of the box; Bing, TikTok, Pinterest, LinkedIn Insight, and Snapchat in Pro. Subscriptions — the complete WooCommerce Subscriptions lifecycle, from creation to cancellation (Pro). Custom dimensions — author, category, tag, post type, user role, form ID/name, subscription ID, and more, auto-registered in GA4 (Pro). Free Features GA4 Connection One-click OAuth sign-in or manual Measurement ID entry Supports GA4 property IDs (G-XXXXXXXX) and manual API Secret for server-side Measurement Protocol User ID tracking to follow logged-in users across sessions IP anonymization for GDPR compliance Google Consent Mode v2 — respects visitor consent before firing any tracking Enhanced link attribution Event Tracking User login (with checkout vs. My Account context), login errors, logout Registration form view, new user sign-up Product review written, comment posted WooCommerce error logging WooCommerce Event Tracking — 30+ events, all free Conversion Pixels — free Facebook Pixel — PageView on all pages; ViewContent on product pages; AddToCart on cart events; Purchase on order completion Google Ads Conversion — conversion event with revenue value and transaction ID on order completion Built-in Analytics Dashboard — free tabs Audience Reports — Users, new users, sessions, engagement rate, avg. session duration; breakdown by country, language, and device category Acquisition Reports — Active users by channel group, traffic source, medium, and screen resolution Behavior Reports — Top pages by traffic, time on page, age group, gender, and operating system WordPress Dashboard Widgets — Quick stats, overview chart, users by country, device, and language — visible right on the WP Dashboard home screen Pro Features Upgrade to TrueAna Pro to unlock subscription event tracking, 14 additional dashboard reports, custom dimensions, and five more ad pixel integrations — everything a growing store needs to move past basic pageviews. WooCommerce Subscriptions Event Tracking (Pro) Requires the WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin. TrueAna Pro tracks the complete subscription lifecycle — 10 events automatically fired via WooCommerce Subscriptions hooks: Every subscription event includes custom dimension parameters — automatically populated once custom dimensions are set up. Custom Dimensions — Pro, 11 dimensions auto-created in GA4 TrueAna Pro registers the following dimensions in your GA4 property with one click. No manual setup in the Google Analytics UI is needed: Author ID of the page or post writer Post or product category Post or product tag WordPress post type Current logged-in user role ID of the submitted form Name of the submitted form TrueAna persistent user identifier new / renewal / re-subscription WooCommerce Subscription ID Number of renewals for the subscription These dimensions unlock the Pro dashboard reports for Content, Forms, and Subscriptions. Advanced Pixel Integrations — Pro In addition to the free Facebook Pixel and Google Ads, Pro adds five more advertising platforms. Each pixel fires in sync with the same WooCommerce hooks as GA4, keeping revenue and product data consistent across every platform: Bing UET Pixel — Page load, ViewProduct, AddToCart, Purchase TikTok Pixel — PageView, ViewContent, AddToCart, Purchase Pinterest Tag — PageVisit, ViewCategory, AddToCart, Checkout LinkedIn Insight Tag — Site-wide page tracking + Purchase event Snapchat Pixel — PAGE_VIEW, VIEW_CONTENT, ADD_CART, PURCHASE Pro Dashboard Reports The following dashboard tabs show an upgrade prompt in the free version. Pro unlocks real GA4 data for each: Real-Time Reports — Active users right now, live page views, live visitor locations, active traffic sources Form Tracking Reports — Views, submissions, and conversion rate per form vs. the previous period (powered by ga4wp_form_id and ga4wp_form_name custom dimensions) Video Tracking Reports — Video plays, completion count, completion rate, and average watch depth per video title WooCommerce Conversion Reports — Total revenue, transactions, revenue per user, session conversion rate; breakdowns by product, traffic source, device, and state/region Purchase Journey / Funnel Reports — Product views → add to cart → checkout → purchase funnel by device category with previous-period comparison Product Performance Reports — Best-selling products ranked by revenue, product views, cart additions, and purchases WooCommerce Subscriptions Dashboard — Subscriber MRR/ARR trend, active/churned/on-hold subscriber counts, churn rate, renewal rate, and subscription revenue chart Content Analytics Reports — Top authors, categories, tags, and post types ranked by pageviews (powered by custom dimensions) Google Ads Reports — Ad group cost, ad group traffic, search query report, ad distribution network performance Google AdSense Reports — AdSense revenue by page title, ad clicks by page title Saved Explore Reports (Pro) Pin custom-built GA4 Explore-style reports as persistent dashboard tabs. Enable or disable individual saved reports and reorder all dashboard tabs via drag-and-drop. Scheduled Email Reports (Pro) Receive automated GA4 summary reports by email on a schedule you define — daily, weekly, or monthly — without logging into WordPress. UTM Builder (Pro) Built-in UTM parameter generator for building properly formatted campaign tracking URLs directly inside your WordPress dashboard. Free vs Pro at a Glance Connection & Tracking GA4 OAuth sign-in and manual Measurement ID — Free & Pro GA4 Measurement Protocol (server-side events) — Free & Pro User ID tracking, IP anonymization, Google Consent Mode v2 — Free & Pro Enhanced link attribution — Free & Pro Event Tracking Login, logout, login errors, sign-up, registration form view — Free & Pro Write review, post comment, WooCommerce error log — Free & Pro 30+ WooCommerce GA4 events (view, cart, checkout, purchase, refund, etc.) — Free & Pro WooCommerce Subscriptions lifecycle events (10 events) — Pro only Conversion Pixels Facebook Pixel (PageView, ViewContent, AddToCart, Purchase) — Free & Pro Google Ads conversion tracking — Free & Pro Bing UET, TikTok, Pinterest, LinkedIn Insight, Snapchat pixels — Pro only Custom Dimensions Custom dimensions in GA4 (11 dimensions, one-click auto-create) — Pro only Dashboard Reports Audience Reports (users, sessions, country, language, device) — Free & Pro Acquisition Reports (channels, sources, mediums) — Free & Pro Behavior Reports (top pages, time on page, age group, gender, OS) — Free & Pro WordPress Dashboard Widgets — Free & Pro Real-Time Reports — Pro only Form Tracking Reports — Pro only Video Tracking Reports — Pro only WooCommerce Purchase Journey Funnel, Conversion & Revenue Reports — Pro only Campaign Performance Reports — Pro only WooCommerce Subscriptions Dashboard — Pro only Content Analytics Reports (author, category, tag, post type) — Pro only Google Ads Reports — Pro only Google AdSense Reports — Pro only Other Pro Features Custom Explore Reports with drag-and-drop tab ordering — Pro only Scheduled Email Reports (daily / weekly / monthly) — Pro only UTM Builder — Pro only Why TrueAna Instead Of… Site Kit by Google alternative — Site Kit connects GA4 but leaves WooCommerce event tracking, custom dimensions, and subscription reporting to you. TrueAna fires 30+ WooCommerce events out of the box with nothing to configure in Tag Manager. Tag Manager + GTM container setup alternative — Skip building and maintaining triggers and variables by hand. TrueAna ships the WooCommerce and subscription event map already built and tested. MonsterInsights or ExactMetrics or GA Google Analytics alternative — TrueAna’s free tier already includes 30+ WooCommerce events, Audience/Acquisition/Behavior dashboard reports, and full Google Consent Mode v2 support — no upgrade needed just to get compliant support, accurate tracking. Server-side Measurement Protocol delivery also means events still reach GA4 even when a visitor’s browser blocks gtag.js due to some js errors, so your numbers hold up better than JS-only tracking. Pro is reserved for what genuinely needs it super powers to understand stats in more detailed way. A self-hosted analytics plugin alternative — Self-hosted tools write every pageview and other data straight into your WordPress database, so your site’s own performance degrades as traffic and data grow, and large sites eventually need manual pruning just to keep the DB manageable. They also can’t feed Google Ads, Facebook Ads, or GA4-based remarketing and lookalike audiences, so you lose the marketing usability of having sales and conversion data inside the ad platforms you actually spend on. If you want to move off Google Analytics entirely, that trade-off may be worth it — but TrueAna is built for the opposite goal: getting more out of the GA4 property, and the ad platform integrations, you already have. TrueAna doesn’t store visitor data on your server at all; it reads and displays data live from your own GA4 account. Requirements WordPress 5.7 or higher PHP 7.4 or higher A Google Analytics 4 property (G-XXXXXXXX) A Google account with access to your GA4 property Privacy TrueAna does not collect or store visitor data on your server beyond what WordPress and WooCommerce already store. Analytics data lives entirely in your Google Analytics account; the plugin reads it via the GA4 Data API solely to display inside your dashboard. IP anonymization and Google Consent Mode v2 are available as one-click toggles. When Consent Mode is active the plugin sets a lightweight first-party cookie to carry the visitor’s consent state into server-side Measurement Protocol requests if enabled.

Shareaholic is the world’s leading suite of Audience Growth & Engagement tools. It allows you to add Award-Winning Social Share Buttons, Related Posts, Content Analytics, Ad Monetization, and more to your website. This plugin makes it easy for any website — big or small — to engage and grow their traffic, market their content, gain insight, and monetize their audience. And it all lives in one simple dashboard. We do all this in a lightweight & lightening fast package by using advanced code optimization techniques such a selective and lazy loading. The plugin loads just the functionality that you have selected and when necessary. Also, because all the tools are integrated, you’ll have a set of tools on your website that are designed to work perfectly together with no conflicts, headaches or slow downs. In fact, Shareaholic is recognized by WP Engine as an “Essential Speed Friendly Social Media & SEO Toolkit”. Kinsta upon testing determined that the plugin doesn’t add much load time overall to a WordPress site. A mere 14 milliseconds. That is less than 1/20th of a blink of an eye! Support One on one email support is available. Visit our Support Center or reach out to our team directly. Rest easy knowing real people are ready to help you. Everyone on our Customer Care team is an experienced Shareaholic user and you can even upgrade to pro for access to a dedicated account manager. To learn about the latest Product Updates, please visit our blog. Social Media Share Buttons Make it easy for your visitors to share social content with their friends with Shareaholic’s award-winning Social Media Share Buttons. This is the ultimate set of Social Tools for your website. Share Buttons demo Official Share Counters and Share Buttons for Facebook, Pinterest, and more Official integration with Google Analytics Full support for: WhatsApp, Facebook share sharing, Twitter sharing, Pinterest sharing, Instagram sharing, Reddit sharing, LinkedIn sharing, Gmail sharing, Delicious sharing, OneNote sharing, Evernote sharing, Stumbleupon sharing, Digg sharing, Tumblr sharing, Hootsuite sharing, Buffer sharing, Fancy sharing, Wanelo sharing, Yummly sharing, WeHeartIt sharing, Flipboard sharing, Printfriendly sharing, Amazon Wishlist sharing, Instapaper sharing, Pocket sharing, Odnoklassniki sharing, Houzz sharing, Hacker News sharing, Inbound.org sharing, Vk sharing, etc Supports theme features such as HTML5 & XHTML, widgets, plugins, infinite scroll, post formats, and mobile optimization Supported URL Shorteners: Bitly (including custom tracking), J.mp, TinyURL, Shr.lc Vector share buttons & follow buttons (SVG icons) Learn more about Share Buttons Share Count Recovery [Premium] Never worry about losing your share counts when you change URLs, adjust your site taxonomy, or switch to HTTPS. Our proprietary technology ensures that no matter how your URLs change, your share counts stay the same. Learn more about Share Count Recovery Privacy Features The German computer magazine c’t has developed “Shariff” (ʃɛɹɪf) that follows the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR – Regulation (EU) 2016/679). This plugin adapts the Shariff concept. The “original” share buttons from Facebook, Pinterest and others automatically transmit data of your visitors to the social network sites as soon as they visit your website. They do not need to click on a share button for this to happen and therefore have no choice. Shareaholic enables visitors to see how popular your page is and display share buttons without this needless leakage to the social networks (unless they decide to share, of course). This is done via server-side code that is part of this plugin to fetch share counts. Once fetched, share counts are cached to ensure maximum performance. To take advantage of this privacy feature, enable “Share Count Proxy” under Advanced Settings. Share Buttons for Images Automatically add Pinterest’s “Pin It” button and other social share buttons directly onto the images on your site to increase outbound traffic to your social sites, and inbound traffic to your website. Includes integrated share buttons for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and more! Share Buttons for Images demo Floating Share Buttons Increase social sharing by 2x or more by adding our Share Button plugin that hovers on the side of the page, rather than in the page content. Floating Share Buttons demo Related Posts Increases pageviews, engagement, and time on site by highlighting related content & related posts that may not otherwise be discovered on your site. Shareaholic is not just yet another related content plugin. It’s simple installation & content dashboard allows you quickly customize what content is delivered and where on your site. You’ll be using well-engineered and optimized code that won’t slow or block your pages from loading. Help your users rediscover your entire content by including related posts on all of your pages. Choose between several themes to seamlessly match your site’s theme, design, and personality. Automatically utilizes post keywords specified in the “All in One SEO Pack”, “WordPress SEO by Yoast”, “Add Meta Tags”, and other plugins. Promote and advertise your content and products across our network using our Related Content Advertising Tools Optimized for mobile devices like the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Android mobile phones, and more. Learn more about Related Posts Content Analytics Shareaholic is proud to be an official Google Analytics Technology Partner. Shareaholic provides you with important actionable metrics including insights into popular pages on your website, referral channels, and top refrerrers who are spreading your web pages on the internet on your behalf, bringing more traffic and new visitors to your site. Shareaholic automatically and seamlessly integrates with Google Analytics, including UTM tracking parameters, to provide Google Analytics social data in your Shareaholic dashboard and Shareaholic data in your Google Analytics dashboard. See social and page analytics by content, author, and custom tags. Discover how visitors find each story, product, author, and section, so you can build distribution strategies that work. Measure author performance and focus on authors who get the best results. Check whether your campaigns are targeting Verified Human audiences who are actually capable of purchasing your product or service Learn more about Google Analytics integration Social Follow Buttons Grow your social following and page views with our easily customizable social plugin and tools for adding social follow buttons directly to your page. Supported services include: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn ,Spotify, Pinterest, Etsy, BuzzFeed, iTunes, Tumblr, Vimeo, eBay, 500px, about.me, Baidu, Behance, Better Business Bureau, Bloglovin, Disqus, Dribbble, Feedly, Flickr, Foursquare, Github, Google Classroom, Houzz, LinkedIn Company, LiveJournal, TikTok, Odnoklassniki, Polyvore, RSS, Skype, SlideShare, SoundCloud, Stack Overflow, StumbleUpon, Tripadvisor, Vine, VK, Yelp, Zillow Learn more about Follow Buttons GDPR Cookie Notice Actively notify your visitors that your site uses cookies through a message bar at the top or bottom of your page Target EU and EEA visitors specifically or show to everyone Supports both IPv4 and IPv6 IP address lookups for maximum geo accuracy Learn more about Cookie Consent Notice Monetize your Site Affiliate Links: Automatically turn your site’s existing links into rewards. Clicks that turn into purchases from our ever-expanding universe of 35,000+ retailers, turn into commissions for you with zero additional effort. Outstream Video: Monetize your content with highly viewable and in-demand video ads through Outstream video units that appear between paragraphs on your pages. Promoted Native Content: Generate revenue with targeted content recommendations from our sponsored content marketplace. Each time your readers click through to sponsored articles, you make money. Additional features GDPR Compliant – Automatically anonymizes EU/EEA Visitor data and provides a layer of protection that prevents data leakage typically associated with Share Count lookups Compatible with Gutenberg editor 100% Customizable – Choose from several themes to match your site’s design or personalize your own to create a custom look. Mobile Optimized – Responsive and retina display friendly. Shareaholic will work and look great on all mobile devices and tablets. Built for Scale – It doesn’t matter if your website generates 1 or a 100 million views. Shareaholic scales to any size and will work just as well. Monetize – Make money with minimal effort while retaining full control at all times. Fast & Secure – We use industry best practices to make our code as fast and unobtrusive as possible, meaning – for example – that the performance impact is comparable to adding Google Analytics to your site. Because all of the processing and collection runs on our servers and not yours, it doesn’t cause any additional load on your hosting account. In addition, our JavaScript is hosted on Amazon’s CDN to make fetching it as blazing fast and reliable as possible. In fact, it’s one of the fastest proven analytics systems, hosted or not hosted, that you can use. Integrations – We’re officially partnered with GoDaddy, WP Engine, Siteground, Cloudflare, Google & others to ensure that Shareaholic is safe, stable, and speedy. Recent Updates Social Share Count Recovery (learn more) Google Analytics integration (setup guide) Promoted Content Post-Share Follow Buttons Shareaholic Teams Official support for WooCommerce You’re in Great Company Shareaholic is used and trusted by hundreds of thousands of websites like yours and touches over 300 million people each month. Designed and built with all the love in the world in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Note: The analytics portion of Shareaholic may use trusted 3rd party services like Google Analytics and AppNexus to enhance its data. Contact Support | Terms | APIs | Security Special Thanks & Credits The plugin wouldn’t be half of what it is today if it weren’t for people like you who take the time to help it grow! Whether it be by submitting bug reports, translations, or maybe even a little development help. A special thanks to some of you who have helped us out a great deal: Complete credits on Shareaholic.com Shareaholic in Your Language Shareaholic is used all over the world. Our goal is to support Shareaholic in the native language of all our users and people who want to use our products. All text across all Apps such as Share Buttons, Cookie Consent, Content Recommendations, etc are customizable to any language. The Shareaholic Plugin Admin UI itself is currently localized in the following languages: Catalan – Català (ca) Chinese Simplified – 简体中文 (zh-CN) Chinese Traditional – 中國傳統的 (zh-TW) Dutch (nl) English (en) Estonian – Eestlane (et) French – Français (fr) German – Deutsch (de) Greek – Ελληνικά (el) Italian – Italiano (it) Japanese – 日本語 (ja) Polish – polski (pl) Portuguese (pt) Romanian – Română (ro) Russian – Русский (ru) Spanish – Español (es) Swedish – svenska (sv) Turkish – Türk (tr) Vietnamese – Tiếng Việt (vi) Contribute a translation! — we would appreciate your help in translating Shareaholic into even more languages! It doesn’t take much to get started. Instructions. Social Platform Integrations Social Follow Buttons: Facebook follow buttons, Twitter / X follow buttons, Instagram follow buttons, YouTube follow buttons, LinkedIn, Spotify, Pinterest follow buttons, Etsy, BuzzFeed, Bluesky, Apple Music, Tumblr, Vimeo, eBay, 500px, about.me, Meetup, Patreon, Medium, Snapchat, Slack, Baidu, Behance, Better Business Bureau (BBB), Bloglovin, Disqus, Dribbble, Feedly, Flickr, Foursquare, Github, Google Classroom, Houzz, LinkedIn, LiveJournal, Odnoklassniki (OK), Polyvore, RSS, Skype, SlideShare, Strava, SoundCloud, Stack Overflow, StumbleUpon, Tripadvisor, Vine, VK, Yelp, Zillow Social Share Buttons: Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Reddit, Skype share buttons, SMS share button, StumbleUpon share buttons, Tumblr, Twitter / X, Telegram, Mix, Amazon Kindle share buttons, Amazon share buttons, Amazon Wish List, AOL Mail, Arto, Baidu, Bluesky, Bitly, Blogger Post, Box, Buffer, Delicious, Digg, Diigo, Diigolet, Email This, Evernote, Facebook Send, Fancy, Fark, Flipboard share buttons, GMail share buttons, Google Bookmarks, Google Classroom, Google Mail, HootSuite share buttons, Houzz share buttons, Inbound.org, Instapaper, Kik, Line share buttons, LinkedIn share buttons, Mail, Meneame, Microsoft OneNote, Mixi, MSDN, Odnoklassniki (OK), Outlook, Parler, Pinboard.in, Pinterest, Plurk, Pocket share buttons, Print share buttons, PrintFriendly share buttons, Read Later share buttons, Reddit share buttons, Sina Weibo, Skype share buttons, SMS, Soup.io, Stumpedia, Symphony, Techmeme, TinyURL, TypePad Post, Viadeo, Vkontakte (VK), Wanelo, We Heart It, WhatsApp, Windows Live Favorites, WordPress share buttons, Wykop, Xing, Yahoo! Mail, Yammer, YC Hacker News, Yummly, Viber, Trello, Facebook Messenger