Multisite
On a WordPress multisite network, SleekTrack has a network mode. Instead of activating and configuring the plugin on every site, you network-activate it once and choose from the network admin which sites are tracked.
Enabling network mode
- Network-activate SleekTrack (in the suite, its Pro plugin) under Plugins in the network admin
- Open Track in the network admin: in the suite from the workspace, in the standalone plugin under SleekWP > Track
Network activation on its own changes nothing on your sites: no tables are created, no tracking code is added, and Track does not appear in a site’s admin until that site is enabled.
Enabling sites
The Network sites screen shows every site of the network as a card. Turn on the switch on a card and SleekTrack provisions that site:
- The site’s analytics tables are created
- The site registers itself as its own tracked site
- The tracking code starts appearing on its pages
There is nothing to install on the site and no snippet to paste. Sites you do not enable stay untouched.
You can also enable and disable sites with wp sleek track network enable
and wp sleek track network disable; see CLI.
Where the data lives
Every enabled site keeps its analytics in its own database tables, exactly as if it ran SleekTrack on its own. Nothing is pooled into a shared table.
The collector finds the right site for both domain-mapped networks
(client-one.com) and subdirectory networks (network.com/client-one).
The network dashboards
Enabled sites lead the Network sites screen, each card showing the site’s visitor-day trend and its visitors over the last 30 days, with more than 24 sites paged under the cards. A network without sites says so. Click a card, or open it in a new tab, to open that site’s dashboard in the network admin: metrics, the visitors chart, the breakdown cards and the realtime count, for the preset periods. Filters, saved views, annotations, goals, funnels, export and site settings are managed from the site’s own admin.
Administrators of an enabled site keep Track in their own admin and see only their site, with every feature described in these pages. They can also add external sites with a snippet.
Network settings
Settings in the network admin sets collection values for the whole
network. Turn on Enforce across network beside a setting to apply its
value to every enabled site; the site screens then show it as managed by the
network administrator. A constant in wp-config.php still wins over both. See
Configuration.
The network screens, network settings and the network commands require the
manage_network_options capability.
Disabling a site
Turn off the switch on a card to stop tracking a site; a notice confirms it. A link to a site Track is off for shows that it is not enabled there, with Enable. Collection stops at once, but the site’s tables and recorded history are kept, so enabling it again continues where it left off. Data is deleted only by the retention setting, by deleting tracked sites, or by uninstalling the plugin.
Notes
- Enabled sites run their retention and cleanup tasks independently
- After an update, an enabled site’s tables are brought up to date by the site’s next request, or earlier when the Network sites screen or the site’s network dashboard reads them
- The Network sites screen lists up to 500 sites
- The license key belongs to each site’s admin, not the network admin