Shack Analytics Documentation

How to Connect Mautic to a Joomla Site with Shack Analytics

In this document, you will learn how to connect the Mautic marketing platform to your Joomla site using the Shack Analytics Pro Joomla extension.

Mautic is a server-side PHP/MySQL self-hosted marketing platform. You can quickly install it using your hosting control panel. After the installation, you will be able to log into your Mautic administrator dashboard and copy the tracking code.

Then paste this code in Shack Analytics on your Joomla site that you would like to connect to your Mautic platform and that's it.

Let's take a look at how to do this in more detail.

Step #1. Install Mautic

  • In your hosting control panel, in the "SOFTACULOUS APPS INSTALLER" section, click "Others":

click others

  • On the next screen, scroll slightly down and click "Mautic":

click mautic

  • You will be taken to the "Mautic" installation screen. Click the little arrow to the right of the "Install" button:

click the little arrow

  • In the dropdown list of the installation options, click "Quick Install":

click quick install

This will open a few new fields on your installation screen.

  • "Choose Installation URL". Leave the default "mautic" in the directory field:

leave the default mautic directory name

  • "Admin Username". Enter here your own admin username or leave the default "admin". For this document, I entered "bxz35":

enter your admin username

  • "Admin Password". For the security of your Mautic installation, replace the default "password" with a hard to guess password:

enter strong password

  • "Admin Email". Leave the default admin email or enter a new one:

enter your admin email

  • Click "Install" to initiate installation:

click install

  • After a brief screen activity, you will see the message stating that your Mautic installation was successful:

the installation was successful

  • Visit the administrative URL of your Mautic installation and log into your Mautic administrator dashboard:

log into your mautic account

  • You will be taken to your Mautic dashboard. In the top right corner, click the little cogwheel icon:

click the little cogwheel icon

  • You will see the "Settings" sidebar. Click "Configuration":

click configuration

  • This will bring you to the "Configuration" administrative screen. On the left side, click "Tracking Settings":

click tracking settings

  • On the next screen, copy the code under the "Mautic tracking settings":

copy the tracking code

Excellent! You are now ready to move to your Joomla site to connect it to your Mautic marketing platform. 

Step #2. Create a Mautic global tracking tag in Shack Analytics

  • In your Joomla administrator panel, go to "Components" > "Shack Analytics Pro":

go to components shack analytics pro

  • You will be taken to the "Shack Analytics: Tracking Tags" screen. In the top left corner, click "New" to create a new tracking tag:

click new

  • This will open the "Shack Analytics: New Tracking Tag" screen for you. Enter "Mautic" into the "Title" field and paste the code you copied in the previous step into the "Footer Script" box:

paste the mautic tracking code into the footer script box

  • Click "Save & Close". You will see your newly created tag listed:

mautic tracking tag listed

So far so good. You created your Mautic tracking tag but it is not at work yet. To rectify this, you need to assign this tag as a global tag for your Joomla site.

  • In the top right corner, click "Options":

click options

  • You will see the "Shack Analytics: Configuration" screen. Click inside the "Global Tracking Tag" box and then - on your Mautic tag:

click on your mautic tag

      • You will see your Mautic platform tracking tag inside the "Global Tracking Tag" box:

your mautic tracking tag inside the box

      • Click "Save" or "Save & Close".
      • Now check the HTML source code of your Joomla site. You should see the tracking code of your Mautic platform embedded between the <body> and </body> HTML tags:

script in the body

Excellent! Your Joomla site is now connected to your Mautic marketing platform.