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Google Analytics 4 without a dashboard. Enter the measurement ID and the tag prints in the right place on the front end, with Google Consent Mode defaults so nothing is stored until a visitor agrees, and with the roles you choose left out of the numbers. The site's own server never talks to Google.

The Pantry Analytics settings screen in the WordPress admin, at Plugin Pantry > Analytics.

What it does

  • Measurement ID field with validation, and the gtag.js tag printed once in the head on front-end pages only
  • Never printed in wp-admin, on the login screen, in feeds, embeds or REST responses
  • Exclude logged-in roles from tracking, administrators excluded by default
  • Google Consent Mode v2 defaults: analytics and advertising storage denied until consent is granted, switchable off for sites without a banner
  • Listens for the consent event Pantry Consent (or any banner) dispatches and updates consent on the fly
  • Option to load the tag only after the visitor's first interaction, for sites that want it off the critical path
  • One status line on the settings screen saying exactly what is printed

What it does not do

  • No dashboard, charts or reports inside WordPress
  • No Google account connection and no server-side requests to Google
  • No other analytics vendors
  • No cookie banner (see Pantry Consent)
  • No event tracking beyond what GA4 does itself

Measured footprint

Zip size
19 KB
Lines of PHP
1,252
Options
pantry_analytics_settings
Post meta
none
Custom tables
none
Post types
none
Cron events
none
Transients
none
Admin assets
includes/core/assets/pantry-admin.css and pantry-admin.js, enqueued only on the Settings > Pantry Analytics screen
Front-end assets
none
External requests
the visitor's browser loads gtag.js from Google when the tag is printed; the server makes no request
Measured on
2026-09-12

Compatibility

WordPress
6.4 or newer, tested to 7.1
PHP
8.1 or newer
Where it lives
Plugin Pantry > Analytics
Licence
GPLv2 or later

Documentation

Read the documentation

Every setting on the Pantry Analytics screen and what each one does, with the hooks it publishes: the same text that ships in the plugin README.

Pro add-on (planned)

See Pantry Pro pricing
  • Dashboard widget with top pages and sources from the GA4 Data API, after connecting a Google account
  • Custom event helpers for forms, downloads and outbound links

None of this is in the free plugin, and none of it is switched off inside it. Pro would be a separate plugin.

Changelog

All notable changes to Pantry Analytics are documented here. Format follows Keep a Changelog.

1.0.0 - 2026-09-12

  • Measurement ID field with validation; the gtag.js tag prints once in the head, on front-end pages only.
  • Never prints in wp-admin, on wp-login.php, in feeds, embeds or REST responses.
  • Exclude logged-in roles from tracking; administrators excluded by default.
  • Google Consent Mode v2 defaults (analytics and advertising storage denied until consent), switchable off.
  • Listens for the pantry-consent event (dispatched by Pantry Consent or any other banner) and updates consent on the fly.
  • Option to load the tag only after the visitor's first interaction (pointerdown, keydown, scroll, or a five-second fallback).
  • One status line on the settings screen saying exactly what is printed.