[Support request] Cookie Consent

[Daren]

What would you think about a creating a premium option for a cookie notification to go with generatepress? Your code is so well optimized it would be nice to have one go with the theme.

[Tom]

Definitely an interesting idea. I need to look into the law a bit more on that one – I would hate for it to change on us and be left with unnecessary bloat in the theme.

[David]

I have the same opinion as expressed by Darren when he said “What would you think about a creating a premium option for a cookie notification to go with generatepress? Your code is so well optimized it would be nice to have one go with the theme.”

You were hoping to explore this a bit almost a year ago (look at the law and possible bloating issues if the law changed).

I am using a later version of both GeneratePress (2.2.2) and GP Premium (1.8.2). If the option is there, I can’t find it.

The widgets area does have a “Top Bar” option which is a good option. Is there a way that I can add code so that the “top bar” can be dismissed? I see that I can add more than one widget. So if the first one was a “cookie” message for people from specified regions (especially Europe) with an dismiss option (and somehow remember this the next time the website is visited so that it does not re-display the “cookie message”), the second one could be some sort of announcement that would be useful.

I don’t want to use a WP plugin if possible and the “code only” solutions out there that I have looked at include references to outside code which I have security concerns about. Probably okay but I don’t want to expose my website to malware code.

It would be great as Darren said if the premium version of GeneratePress had this type of functionally.

Thanks,
Peace,
David

[Tom]

A way to dismiss the top bar is an interesting idea – I’ll think about that for sure.

As for a cookie consent panel in itself, that’s definitely plugin territory. I’m not sure adding that to the theme makes much sense. If I were to do this, I would likely build it as a separate plugin to work with any theme.

[Leo]

For dismissing the top bar, a user created this solution that might help:
http://www.gmitropapas.com/generatepress-theme-tutorial-convert-the-top-widget-bar-into-a-notification-window/

[David]

Thanks Tom for your reply.

Leo of your Customer Support replied back with a link that outlines a way to dismiss a message on the top bar. I will follow up more on that and see how that goes.

Thanks for explaining that the cookie panel idea would be plugin territory rather than theme territory. I may have to revert back to a WP plugin after all to do this for me to be reasonably sure that it takes care of what needs to be taken care of.

Cheers,
Thanks,
David

[David]

Thanks Leo for this link.
I will follow up on this and see if it does the trick for me.

Thanks again,
Peace,
David

[Leo]

No problem 🙂

[Matthias]

to warm this up – as i am working on getting a new Website online i had a closer look at current cookie policies regarding GDPR/DSGVO.

So – on 1.October 2019 the European Court of Justice did have a case regarding cookie policy – and ruled that opt-in is the way if you want to follow the law.
For European users the cookie consent with just a click-away banner or a opt-out are no longer the way to go.

I only did a quick search – but it looks like opt-in cookie bans are only possible by additional plugins and that is nothing that generatepress can solve, right?

Anyone having a good suggestion or is already using a solution for opt-in?

[David]

Hi there,

Thats correct your will need a plugin or 3rd party script.
This one has 700k installs – so they must be doing something right:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/cookie-law-info/

[Daniel]

Hi Matthias,

another popular Cookie Opt-In Plugin is Borlabs Cookies.

https://borlabs.io/borlabs-cookie/

[David]

Hi, I am using the following WP Plugin for Cookie Consent:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/cookie-notice/

They have over a million installations.

I installed, activated it, may have done some customisation and forgot about it!

So far the developers are maintaining it as it was updated last a week or so back.

Cheers,
David

[Leo]

Thanks for sharing David!

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