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  • Plugin Author Nirav Mehta

    (@niravmehta)

    @sandeep: Assuming your question is more about WordPress plugin development than Icegram itself.

    www.remarpro.com has started showing “Active Installs” of a plugin. They track plugin usage – because they get auto update requests from all WP powered sites.

    If your plugin is hosted at www.remarpro.com (like Icegram), there is no way for you to track which sites are using it.

    You may ask your users to subscribe to a newsletter or put a referral link and then track some statistics on your side to understand who’s using your plugin. But you can’t force them to do this.

    If you sell / distribute plugins from your own site, you can override the WordPress update process to send automatic update checks to your server. And then you can get a better grip on who’s using your plugin. A lot of plugins do this – WooCommerce, ThemeForest and even ourselves (for Store Apps’s premium plugins) do this. You can even use serial keys to validate users.

    Hope this helps.

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    could you track on which website this plugin is used

    I hope not directly. ?? Plugins in the WordPress repo (free plugins) are not supposed to do that.

    www.remarpro.com has started showing “Active Installs” of a plugin. They track plugin usage – because they get auto update requests from all WP powered sites.

    In an anonymous fashion. Counts are not the same as identifying where the plugin is being used.

    If you have a commercial plugin and your terms are upfront about that (meaning you get buy in from your customers) then Nirav’s last suggestion is likely the best option.

    Thread Starter wordpresssandeep

    (@wordpresssandeep)

    @nirav Thanks for reply. I understand yours thoughts regarding this tracking concept. I’ll try to implement own code for track plugin.
    Regards

    Thread Starter wordpresssandeep

    (@wordpresssandeep)

    @jan Thanks for response..
    Regards

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