[theme-reviewers] Tracking for themes&plugins

Emil Uzelac emil at uzelac.me
Fri Feb 7 22:42:13 UTC 2014


@Ulrich that might be, however they're almost never accurate.


On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Codeinwp <support at codeinwp.com> wrote:

> It's very interesting to have an idea regarding the opt-in percentage,
> Yoast for example is asking this with a wordpress popup after the plugin is
> activated, their message looks well, the plugin is free, so you know as a
> user you may think that you want to help .
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 11:30 PM, Ulrich Pogson <grapplerulrich at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> @Emil Do you have reports from users that is so or is it just experience?
>>
>> I know that Yoast SEO and EDD have been able to get data successfully.
>>
>> It is interesting that that three people feel strongly against it. I
>> wonder what is so wrong.
>> On 7 Feb 2014 23:25, "Emil Uzelac" <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>>
>>> Most users will not opt-in, therefore you will not have enough of
>>> feedback anyways.
>>> Here's what you can try: http://www.usertesting.com
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Codeinwp <support at codeinwp.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> @Ulrich I don't anything in mind now I am just trying to understand
>>>> what is acceptable and what is the best way of doing it.
>>>>
>>>> It would be for example very interesting if I have a theme to know
>>>> which is the most used plugin along with it. Also for example in number of
>>>> installs, if there are 10.000 downloads on wordpress.org is
>>>> interesting to know how many people use actually the theme and how big are
>>>> those sites, the same is nice to know if a particular feature is
>>>> enabled/disabled by most of the users or not .
>>>>
>>>> The thing is that in most of the cases users don't provide feedback, if
>>>> they don't like something after they download the theme, they look for
>>>> another and if there are 2 themes both with 10k downloads but one of them
>>>> is still present on 1k sites and the other on 3k it means that 1st one has
>>>> some issues ( maybe it's hard to configure properly as per demo ) .
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Ulrich Pogson <
>>>> grapplerulrich at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> What type of information would you track?
>>>>> On 7 Feb 2014 22:50, "Codeinwp" <support at codeinwp.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>  Hello everybody,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am thinking for a while at a opt-in tracking solution for our
>>>>>> themes and plugins that don't bother users/wp.org, but still help us
>>>>>> build better products and understand our users and I haven't seen any
>>>>>> debate here, so I am starting it :) .
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I came across yoast seo plugin which implement an opt-in tracking
>>>>>> that tracks : posts/comments/theme used/plugins used/pages/number of users
>>>>>> and of course since they receive the tracking request from a site, they can
>>>>>> relate those things with thisismysite.com ( no user tracking, unless
>>>>>> you subscribe ) .
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is this completely acceptable by everyone ?
>>>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
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>
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