Description

In accordance with european legislation, and especially the Dutch situation, this plugin adds a status bar for visitors. In the status bar, a message is displayed with the option to accept cookies. After the message, a link to a page is added for more information.

IMPORTANT

The plugin prevents cookies by the Analytics plugin by Yoast, and ShareThis. Until a visitor accepts cookies, their visits won’t show up in Google Analytics!

Installation

Install the plugin via Add Plugin (or upload the folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory)
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Add a page to your site with more background info about the cookies on your site.
Go to Settings > Cookie Wise, select the new page for more info, optionally change texts and colors.

FAQ-e

Which cookies are disabled?

The plugin disables the cookies set by the following plugins:

Google Analytics by Yoast
ShareThis by ShareThis

Until a visitor accepts cookies, these cookies won’t be set. You will not see these visits to your site in Google Analytics.

WordPress cookies are considered functional and therefore not disabled.

Can I suggest other cookies to disable?

Sure! Let me know the plugin name in the support forums, and I’ll look into it.

Why does this plugin set a cookie?

To disable the statusbar, and to remember if a visitor has accepted or rejected cookies, the plugin sets a cookie.

What’s up with the name of this plugin?

This plugin got its name from greatest film quote ever, from The Apartment (1960) by Billy Wilder:

That's the way it crumbles -- cookie wise.

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Contributors & Developers

“Cookie Wise” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

jeroensmeets

Translate “Cookie Wise” into your language.

Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

1.1.4

added warning: until a visitor accepts cookies, you won’t see them in Google Analytics if you use Yoast his plugin.

1.1.3

fixed a php warning about missing function section_position()

1.1.2

added icons for the plugin
updated ‘tested up to:’ to WordPress 4.0
added some extra help info

1.1.1

fixed typo in options for screen position

1.1

added option to show bar at bottom of screen
option to specifiy a blogpost in the link for more information
show defaults in options screen when options not set
tested in WordPress 3.5 beta 3

1.0

Initial version
supports Google Analytics plugin by Yoast
supports ShareThis plugin ShareThis