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Hi @p4r0dy

unfortunately we don’t yet have a feature to make this work out of the box.

You would first need to create a new Custom Dimension. You could call this new action dimension “Author” and then track the name of the author like this:

_paq.push(['setCustomDimension', 1, '$NameOfTheAuthor']);

A new report will appear in the Visitor menu in Matomo afterwards.

To show the reports of their own pages for each author you would need to create a new custom widget. This could fetch the data from our WordPress API for example and then show the data.

Such a URL to fetch custom dimension data would look similar to this:

https://example.com/index.php?rest_route=/matomo/v1/api/processed_report&period=date&date=year&filter_limit=10&apiModule=CustomDimensions&apiActions=getCustomDimension&idDimension=1

Does this help @p4r0dy ? I know it’s not trivial as it doesn’t come out of the box but depending on the resources you have re development this may not be too much work.

@p4r0dy have you had a chance to look at my previous comment or maybe any question around this?

Hello Thomas, thanks for your reply, yes, im gonna try to implement it today and i will be back here to say you if i have a question. Thanks again.

Hi @p4r0dy I assume that it worked since it’s been 2 weeks and will therefore mark the issue for now as resolved. If something is not working feel free to leave a comment and we continue following up.