Track Registered Users

Hi there –

Right now, Leadin does track all the page views behind the scenes, so the data is there, but we don’t have a way to tie the identity of the user through any other method besides a form submission with an email address. Sorry I don’t have a better answer and if you think of a way to do it that makes sense, please do let me know!

Thank you Andy for your response.

Leadin is a valuable plugin!
To include the already registered users seems so natural to me.

What I see…
On the Leadin settings page there is a checkbox: “add existing WP Users to Leadin”.

1.) The first time the box gets checked and saved, you iterate through all WP users and add them to your Leadin database; and add a flag: “imported WP user”.

2.) After that you hook into WP for users being added, edited, and deleted and sync it with your Leadin database.

3.) If for any reason an Admin deselects the checkbox on the settings page then you iterate through the Leadin database and remove all users with the “imported WP user” flag.

Andy, please excuse me if I make it sound so easy; I am aware that this feature would require several hours to develop and test.

Thank you again for the plugin,
Holger

Hi Holger –

Thanks for the additional thoughts. We recently modified the plugin to start tracking users registration on your blog through the wp-login form, so you should be able to grab them that way.

Retroactively importing all the existing users is interesting and I’ll discuss it with the rest of the team. My main concern is that we don’t have a way to tie the unique tracking code for a user that Leadin generates to the actual web browser cookie right now. If we did just the import as is right now, you’d have the WordPress users in the database, but there wouldn’t be a way to track them.

We do have a few ideas around how to make this work on the back burner, so hopefully we can figure out how to implement one of those in a high-quality way in the future.

Thank you ??

Yes, you can set the cookie:
– besides the “imported WP User” you have another flag: “Tracking Cookie”.
– if a user has no “Tracking Cookie” set the cookie again
– this flag might come also in handy to track users who switched devices… you are tracking a user and not one particular cookied browser.

Ahh – good call – I admittedly didn’t think of just pulling down the members identity via the WordPress backend.

I’ll discuss this implementation with the team and hopefully we can make a decision on it soon.

I love the concept of this plug-in! Unfortunately I was looking for the exact feature holgerhubbs is requesting. Please let me know when this feature has been implemented.

Great work on the plug-in!

Hey Thurston –

Thanks so much for the support and enthusiasm ??

Our team is discussing the next round of features we plan to implement early next week. I’ll make sure to bring this one up and circle back here with both of you.

Cheers!

Great ??