Thanks for reaching out Bernhard!
We removed the CNAME-based custom domain functionality because we deprecated it as it is no longer efficient. What we recommend these days is a proxy. We do plan to introduce the proxy functionality to the plugin in the next major release as that is a superior and more adaptable alternative to the custom domain.
You can read more about this change in this post: https://plausible.io/docs/proxy/introduction
Stay tuned for the next release which should have the proxy out of the box!
Hi Marko!
Thank you for your response. I already love and celebrate the proxy functionality of Plausible, but as you say with a CNAME-based subdomain ) for a cleaner look. Now with the disabled custom domain setting, it looks like i have to manually embed the script instead of using the plugin for all my client websites. Am i right here (for the moment)?
Best regards,
Bernhard
You’re welcome! We no longer support CNAME-based subdomains so even without the plugin, it is a deprecated feature that should no longer be used. We only support the proxy now. The proxy allows you to run the script from whatever location you want too.