I’ve got the plugin working well, and I’ve enabled “Custom Events” and “Authors and Categories”. The “Authors and Categories” works really well for standard blog post categories, but I really need it to also trach “Topics” (a custom taxonomy) on our “Episodes” post type.
It seems like the answer would be on this page in your docs, but it’s hard to fully understand and troubleshoot how I’d make this happen, particularly since the “Topics” doesn’t exist on every page of the site, I’d want this script to only run on the Episodes post type.
Looking forward to your assistance here. Thank you!
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thanks for reaching out Matt and glad to hear that the plugin works well for you!
yeah, those are the correct instructions. there are three different methods to do this that are listed there but they all do require you to insert a piece of code only on the specific post types that you want to track. this is what our plugin does automatically for authors and categories.
I’m not familiar with custom taxonomies unfortunately. do they have templates and such on which you could manually insert that piece of code so it only runs on those specific pages?
also I have added this as an idea for what we can try and explore in order to support this out of the box in one of the upcoming versions of our plugin too. no promises on this but we’ll see what can be done.
I thought of jumping into this conversation to help. I have created a PR #185 as it was a quick fix to support default category and tag along with custom taxonomies. I have done quick testing and it works seamlessly.
Marko: If you think this works then feel free to merge in the upcoming release.
Let me know if you have any questions. Happy to answer. Thanks!
Just tested and it works great! When I went to my site settings in my Plausible account, I went to “Custom Properties” and when I went to add a new custom property these were all there already waiting for me!
great to hear that Matt! we will merge this for the 2.1 release and will also make it so that all the custom props get displayed in the dashboard directly without you manually needing to add them in site settings similarly to how it works with authors and categories
Great to hear it! The custom properties and goals are definitely some of the things that make Plausible unique and powerful. I haven’t upgraded to Funnels yet, but once I have some strong use-cases for that I’ll most likely pull the trigger there as well. I really like how this platform is maturing and growing. Thanks!
thank you, happy to hear that! We plan to expand goals and properties to cover more use cases out of the box in the plugin in future. site search and woocommerce integration should be coming in the next version for instance
