Title: Settings clarification
Last modified: June 30, 2023

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# Settings clarification

 *  [facelikebambi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/facelikebambi/)
 * (@facelikebambi)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/settings-clarification/)
 * Hello, I’m installing the plugin and following your documentation but I think
   we could benefit from some clarification here:
 * **Base URL** – is this required? What should it be set to?
 * **Hostname** – should this be the website URL or the pirsch.io subdomain?
 * **Client ID** – after adding a client in the dashboard (using the recommended
   Access Key method), how do we obtain the client ID?
 * Thanks!

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 *  Plugin Author [Marvin Blum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/m5blum/)
 * (@m5blum)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/settings-clarification/#post-16860580)
 * Hi! I agree, the plugin configuration is a bit confusing. We’ll build a version
   2.0 at some point improving upon that (and more).
 * For clarification:
    - **Base URL** can be left empty, that’s for a proxy or testing
    - **Hostname** should be your own domain
    - **Client ID** can be left empty if you use an access token
 * I hope this helps! Thank you for trying Pirsch 🙂

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