Pixel Cat – Conversion Pixel Manager

80 Quality Score

Active Installs

21/30

40,000 active installs is a solid mid-tier footprint, well behind the 500,000-install category leaders but strong for a niche conversion-tracking tool.

Update Freshness

25/25

Updated within days of this assessment and tested against WordPress 7.0, which signals an actively maintained codebase.

User Rating

12/15

An 80 out of 100 from 41 raters is respectable, though the small sample size means the score carries limited statistical weight.

Support Health

8/15

Zero support threads, both open and resolved, which is unusual; it may indicate either very few users hit issues or that support requests are routed elsewhere.

WP Compatibility

15/15

Tested with WordPress 7.0 and requires only WordPress 4.0, giving it very broad backward compatibility.

Scores higher than 79% of indexed plugins

About

Add Meta & Facebook Pixel, Google Analytics (GA4) and any header script to your site. Everything you need to track users, ads, events & conversions.

Active Installs 40k+

Rating ★★★★ 4/5

Last Updated 2026-08-16 2:40am GMT

Requires WordPress 4.0+

Tested Up To 7.1

Security History

4 known vulnerabilities, all patched

1 High 3 Medium

Most recent: September 23, 2024

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What It Does

Pixel Cat injects the Meta (Facebook) Pixel, optionally Google Analytics GA4, and arbitrary header or footer scripts into your WordPress site so you can fire standard events, track conversions, and pass data to ad platforms. It also supports the Conversions API (CAPI) for server-side event delivery alongside the browser pixel. In practical terms, it gives marketers a single place to drop tracking snippets without editing theme files.

Who It's For

This plugin fits small to mid-sized WordPress sites run by marketers, agency operators, or store owners who need pixel and analytics deployment without touching code, particularly those advertising on Meta. The Conversions API support also makes it useful for anyone whose browser-pixel tracking has degraded due to cookie restrictions or iOS changes. WooCommerce or Shopify-style remarketing is the core use case.

Who Should Skip It

If you already run Google Tag Manager and manage all your tags there, this plugin is redundant and adds an extra surface to maintain. Large ecommerce operations with deep product-feed and dynamic-audience needs will outgrow it and should look at PixelYourSite or Pixel Manager for WooCommerce instead.

The Bottom Line

Pixel Cat earns a Quality Score of 80.11 out of 100, a respectable result held back mostly by a modest install base and an oddly empty support forum. It is a sensible, actively maintained choice for marketers who want Meta Pixel plus CAPI in one box without paying for PixelYourSite. For pure scale, deeper ecommerce integrations, or a header-script utility, the alternatives listed above are stronger fits.

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