Universal WP Lead Tracking vs WP Mail Logging

Universal WP Lead Tracking gives you important information about users from contact form submissions on your WordPress site and allows you to instantly set up Google Analytics events to send conversion data when someone submits a form on your website. When you receive an e-mail from a contact form on your website, you will instantly see data on a user’s landing page on your site, the page that they filled out the contact form on, the referring source that sent them to your website, their location IP (country-level) and browser/platform used. This information is added by simply putting the [tracking-info] shortcode in the email being sent to you when a user submits a form on your website. Just paste the [tracking-info] shortcode in your e-mail template, and every time you receive a lead from your website, you will be able to see information from the user that submitted the form. The Specific Information This Plugin Provides The tracking info specifically includes the Form Page URL, Original Referrer, Landing Page, User IP, and Browser. What do these specific items mean? Form Page URL: This is the page on your website where the user filled out your form. Original Referrer: This is where the user came to your website from such as Google or Facebook. Landing Page: This is the page on your website that the user first came to from an outside source. User IP: This is the IP address of the user that sent a form submission and includes a country location. Browser: This tells you what browser a user was on when they sent a form submission. This Tracking Code Works With Most Major Form Plugins This shortcode tracking method will work with forms on Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Ninja Forms, or Elementor PRO. Because it is shortcode based, you can just drop in the code to the e-mail submission template on any of these major form plugins. If you are sending your website e-mail submissions via an HTML based output on one of these plugins, we have that covered too. Just add html=”true” to your shortcode like so: [tracking-info html="true"] This Plugin Sends Form Events To Google Analytics As an added feature, you can track any form submission on your website as a Google Analytics event if you have Google Analytics set up on your website. This happens automatically when you check the box for the Analytics event you want on the plugin settings section. We currently support ga{} events for Universal Analytics and gtag{} events for Google Analytics 4. This will show up in your Google Analytics view as an action called “submit” with an event category called “Contact Form” that you can then set as a lead source in your conversion preferences in Google Analytics For more plugins, help, or information about this plugin please visit www.inboundhorizons.com.

WP Mail Logging is the most popular plugin for logging emails sent from your WordPress site. Simply activate it and it will work immediately, no extra configuration is needed. Are your WordPress emails not being sent or delivered? Use this plugin to log all outgoing emails from your WordPress site. If there are any errors when sending the email from your site, our email logs will catch that error and display it to you. This will allow you to debug and fix your email sending issue. Did a client not receive your email? Our email logs allow you to resend any email that was sent from your site. No more lost emails! Do you just want to keep a record of all emails sent from your site? By default, WordPress and your web host do not log, store or keep track of emails sent from your website. This plugin will allow you to do just that. Our email logs will store every email that is sent from your WordPress site. You can search and view a particular email log, inspect its content or attachments, and even resend that email. What email information is logged? All emails sent from your WordPress site are logged. And here is the information that is stored: Email Subject Email Content (HTML or text) Email Attachments Email Headers (to, from, reply-to, cc, bcc, …) Error Message (in case there was an error while attempting to send the email) IP Address of originating server (can be enabled in the settings) Date and Time of the email Receiver (the TO email address) Why are my logged emails still not delivered to the inbox? There are a lot of steps that emails have to make in order to be delivered to the recipient’s inbox. When your WordPress site sends an email, there’s no guarantee it will be delivered. This is what the email’s journey looks like: WordPress creates an email WordPress passes the email to your website host and that email gets logged by our plugin The host server takes the email and sends it (SMTP or Mail Transfer Agent) Recipient server receives or blocks the email If the email is accepted, the spam filter decides if it goes to the inbox or the spam folder Recipients see the email and might open it. This plugin does not track delivery after step 2. If you have deliverability issues, we suggest installing the WP Mail SMTP plugin. WP Mail SMTP fixes WordPress email deliverability problems, you can choose between 12 email providers (Gmail, Outlook, SendLayer, Mailgun, …) to resolve your email sending issue and it’s super easy to set up. WP Mail SMTP is trusted by more than 3 million websites. Credits The plugin was created and launched in 2014 by Christian Zöller.