WordPress forum plugin with built-in analytics dashboard

Priya Sharma Priya Sharma 8 months ago

I run community for a small SaaS and every quarter I have to answer the same question from our CEO: "is the community actually growing?" Right now I cobble together numbers from Google Analytics, a spreadsheet of monthly active users I maintain by hand, and guesswork about who the top contributors are.

I want this built into the forum itself so the data comes from the source of truth, not sampled page views. Growth trends, top contributors, engagement rates, and ideally a CSV export so I can paste it into the quarterly deck. Any WordPress forum plugin that does this natively?

#analytics #jetonomy-pro #reporting
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vapvarun vapvarun Admin

Jetonomy Pro includes an Analytics Dashboard extension built specifically for this reporting workflow.

  • Community growth trends so you can show MoM and QoQ change
  • Top contributors ranked by reputation, posts, replies, and accepted answers
  • Engagement rates across spaces
  • CSV export for dropping into slides or a BI tool
  • Data comes straight from the custom MySQL tables (not wp_posts), so counts are exact, not sampled

Complementing the dashboard, core ships a reputation system, Trust Levels 0-5, a leaderboard, and denormalized counters (reply_count, post_count, vote_score) updated on write, so the numbers the dashboard reads are already aggregated and cheap to query.

Honest limit: Analytics Dashboard is a Pro extension; the free plugin does not include the dashboard UI, though the underlying counters and leaderboard are available in core.

Pro adds Email Digests so you can auto-send a weekly snapshot to the exec team without logging in every Monday.