Tracking Guide for Ghost CMS

by Fkrauss

TL;DR: Learn how to integrate Matomo Tag Manager with Ghost CMS. Works with Google Tag Manager too :)

So you're using Ghost CMS?

Awesome! Ghost is a great CMS for creators but it does lack some when it comes to tracking and analytics.

This weekend I scratched my own itch to implement a Tag Manager and Setup Conversion Tracking for https://spoofdefender.com and made it into a short blog post.

I had not seen anything about that before so I believe others might find it useful.

Note: the steps are the same whether you're a hardcore open-source self-hoster and use Matomo Tag Manager like me or if you use the industry standard Google Tag Manager!

https://bright-husky.pikapod.net/ghost-cms-tracking/ (sorry for the lousy link :) I'm still setting up my own blog, also in Ghost)

Next posts will cover how to pass subscription details to the dataLayer and set up conversion.

Writing this I found it quite nice that Ghost's flows are pretty universal and what I want to track on Spoof Defender is very likely similar to what any other Ghost CMS site owner wants to track: namely subscriptions, paid subscribers and the subscription flow.

Let me know how you like it!