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Home / Google Tag Manager basics / Google Tag Manager account structure

Google Tag Manager account structure

First of all, to access Google Tag Manager, you need to have a Google account just as with other Google products. If you are already using Google Analytics or Google Ads, you can use the login credentials used on those sites.

Using one Google login you can manage multiple Google Tag Manager accounts. Usually a single Google Tag Manager account is enough for a company since you can create multiple so called containers.

Containers usually equals to websites, most users can use one container for a single website. Google Tag Manager can be also used in iOS and Android apps. GTM4WP does not integrate with those container types. You can however setup GTM4WP to load your container from your own cloud server where you are setting up server side tagging.

A container includes all your tags, triggers and variables so that you can control which tag should be executed (aka. “fired”) on which page using what kind of dynamic parameters.

Each container gets its own ID, it is called the container ID. This is a string like GTM-XXXXX where XXXXX can be any combination of letters and numbers.

If you are using Google Tag Manager for WordPress, you only have to enter this container ID to start using Google Tag Manager on your website. The container code is being placed by this plugin. Because of the special needs of Google Tag Manager, you may need to add a special line of PHP code into your template file but that’s all.

Each container can contain multiple so called workspaces. Most of you are using the free version of Google Tag Manager that allows you to create 3 parallel workspaces. For the paid version (aka Google Tag Manager 360) this is unlimited.

Think of workspaces as branches of your modifications inside Google Tag Manager. Let’s say you already have your Google Analytics measurement setup and you need to add some Facebook Pixels. Since this can involve lots of changes, you may need more than one day to complete this task. Now let’s say you suddenly realize that one of your Google Analytics event tag includes a typo. You change the parameter value but if you decide to publish all changes, you will also publish your newly created Facebook Pixels. But they are not ready to be published!

This is where workspaces can help: if you create a separate workspace for your Facebook tags, you can easily correct any option in your GA tags and publish those changes as they are in a separate workspace. Once your are ready with your Facebook Pixels, you can publish them too and automatically merge your two workspaces into one so that every modification and addition can be live on your site.

You can read more about workspaces in the Google Tag Manager help center.

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  • Home
  • Features
    • Basic features of GTM4WP

      You can use many post or page attribute in you Google Tag Manager setup even for custom post types and taxonomies.

      Basic data

      Page / post attributes

      Site search

      User data

      Multisite data

      3rd party data

      Browser attributes

      Device attributes

      Operating system attributes

      Weather conditions

  • Setup
    • Setup advanced GTM4WP features

      Integrate your measurement with WooCommerce, setup Google Analytics 4, Google Ads remarketing or conversion tracking maximizing capabilities.

      WooCommerce related

      Google Analytics 4

      Google Ads – Dynamic Remarketing

      Google Ads – Conversion tracking

      Other setup articles

      Exclude WordPress admins

      Embedded media players

  • Developers
    • Information for developers and WP managers

      There are several tools in GTM4WP to support your special needs and to adjust plugin behavior to your website or WooCommerce shop.

      Do you want to contribute with a bugfix or a new feature? Visit the GTM4WP’s GitHub page!

      For Developers

      Actions and filters

      WP themes + Proper ecommerce tracking

      For WP managers

      Setup GTM Environments

      Hard code GTM parameters

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