isabella232 / wp-gdpr-consent

GDPR consent bar for wordpress

GDPR Consent

A very simple consent bar.

This plugin has already been approved by Wordpress for use in VIP installations.

Installing on VIP GO

Subtree

git subtree add --prefix plugins/wp-gdpr-consent https://github.com/firstandthird/wp-gdpr-consent 2.0.0 --squash

Submodule

git submodule add https://github.com/firstandthird/wp-gdpr-consent.git plugins/wp-gdpr-consent

Add this to client-mu-plugins/plugin-loader.php or similar:

wpcom_vip_load_plugin( 'wp-gdpr-consent' );

Installing on other Wordpress installations

Download the latest release and copy the contents of the zip file to the plugins directory.

Activate the plugin.

First use

Go to Settings » GDPR Consent

Click save to set default text.

Banner should show up on site mainpage.

Wrapping scripts

Some scripts should only be run once consent has been granted. This plugin includes a helper method to queue up scripts.

if (window.gdprSafeTrack) {
  window.gdprSafeTrack(function() {
    // place your script here
  });
}

You can also use window.gdprSafeTrack to load scripts once consent has been granted:

<script>
  window.gdprSafeTrack('https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-xxxxxxxxx-x');
</script>

Dev setup

./run

Open browser: http://localhost:8080

Install wordpress.

Activate plugin.

yarn install

yarn dev

Debug

These hashes can be used to help debug:

• #gdpr-debug - Logs out some useful information including when safe track callbacks are fired
• #gdpr-debug-clean - Same as above but does not used stored cookie.
• #gdpr-debug-cookies - Outputs any cookies set after 10 seconds.

Note: clean and cookies may be combined together: gdpr-debug-clean-cookies

Creating plugin zip

./run generate-package