Cookie control – new EU laws

  • Resolved James Olney

    (@james-olney)


    12 years, 9 months ago

    Hi

    WordPress is installing a PHPSESSID cookie as soon as someone lands on my site. Under new EU law if its non-essential i have to block it so that a user can opt-in. But if it is essential its ok as long as I detail its use on my site. This is the problem.

    I look after about 20 WordPress sites and only 2 of them install a PHPSESSID cookie immediately.

    I cant see why. Its definitely not caused by any of my more unusual code or any of the plugins as I have stripped it down to its barebones and its still doing it.

    I know WordPress is installing it and I assume it’s essential (which will mean it’s ok according to the new directive) but I still need to detail it on my cookies page.

    But I dont know what it is and cant find anything on the web ??

    Both of the sites affected don’t give the option for login. Whereas a load of the others do and they don’t install that cookie so I have no idea what its purpose is.

    Can anyone say what this cookie does and why only 2 of my sites are installing it into the browser?

    cheers

    James

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  • Thread Starter James Olney

    (@james-olney)

    Ok I tracked it down. It was a plugin – Cforms – I can only assume I thought I had deactivated and tested again or had assumed it wasn’t the culprit.

    It installs a cookie even if it isn’t onscreen – let alone if it is actually used!

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