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MediaElement Google Analytics & Piwik Event Tracking

Description

This plugins fires Google Analytics & Piwik events for the native WordPress MediaElement video and audio player.
Works for playlists, too! Adds the following events in Google Analytics & Piwik:

  • play
  • ended

An event look like this: wp-video, play,[filename]

  • category: wp-video
  • action: play
  • label: filename of the corresponding media file

Installation

  • Install plugin
  • Activate it

Reviews

སྤྱི་ཟླ་དགུ་པ། 21, 2016 1 reply
Thanks for this helpful plugin: it worked right out of the box!
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Contributors & Developers

“MediaElement Google Analytics & Piwik Event Tracking” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

1.8

  • removed “pause” events. You might ask why. Because the mediaement player does not report this event correctly.
  • added image

1.4

  • support for audio and video playlists. Here you go, Scott.

1.3

  • tracking of filename instead of fileurl.

1.2

  • Piwik support \o/

1.1

  • compatible with Monster Insights plugin

1.0

  • First version with play, pause and ended events.