WP-Matomo is a great bridge between WordPress and a self-hosted Matomo instance. It pulls visitor counts, top pages, referrers, browsers, and goal completions from the Matomo HTTP API and exposes them as dashboard widgets in WP Admin. The widgets are fine for a quick look but they live in fixed layouts and you can't reshape them per role or per client.

SleekView Charts reads the same data WP-Matomo already cached. Settings live in the wp-piwik_global-settings and wp-piwik_settings options, and the cached API responses sit in transients keyed by site id and date range. SleekView lets you build chart cards on top: a Number for unique visitors this month, a Donut for visitor countries, a Bar for top pages, an Area for daily visits over the last 30 days.

You keep the privacy story Matomo gives you. Tracking still happens through the Matomo JS, the data still lives in your Matomo database, and SleekView simply turns the cached numbers WP-Matomo already shows into a single configurable dashboard editors, SEO leads, and clients can actually share.

WP-Matomo is the cleanest way to put a self-hosted Matomo instance behind a WordPress site without making editors learn the Matomo UI. The widgets it ships are fine for a quick glance, but they were never meant to be a reporting tool you share with a client or a content team. SleekView Charts treats the cached Matomo responses as a real dataset.

Editors get a daily visits trend they can read in five seconds, SEO leads get a country donut and a top-pages bar that line up with the same date range, and agencies get a saved dashboard per client that travels with the user role. The recording stays where it always was, your Matomo database, and the reporting finally lives where the work happens, inside WordPress.