I have been working on a website for a client and they have requested that like another site that was done for them, to have a “cookie” table filled in on their cookie policy.

Can you post a screenshot or something to demonstrate this “cookie table”? I don’t quite get what the goal is.

Firstly this site has not been published with any search engine at this time as this is something they will probably be doing in the future

These days sites are not “published” or submitted to search engines. The search engines are constantly crawling the internet for new content, and will automagically pick up new websites… unless the owner took specific steps to block search engines.

will there be A) cookies coming to this site as it is not on any search engine but does have their social media links

Cookies don’t “come” to websites. The specific website you visit (and 3rd-party widgets embedded in the site) set the cookies (tiny computer files) on the visitors’ computers.

For what its worth, here’s documentation on the cookies that WordPress sets: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/WordPress_Cookies

Note that individual plugins, themes, and 3rd-party widgets and code embedded on the site may set additional cookies.

B) how , if needed, go about finding what cookies are being used ?

You can use sites like https://www.cookie-checker.com/ to find what cookies are set by any website.

Please advise as I and the end of finishing this site now and this is the only part that is stopping it from “going live”

What is the actual problem you’re solving? What are you trying to accomplish?

Can you post a screenshot or something to demonstrate this “cookie table”? I don’t quite get what the goal is.

Thank you for your reply to my post, on the matter of your first question about the “cookie table” this is simply a layout showing the name of the cookie(s) and their purpose. If you visit most website and view their privacy / cookie policy (with some sites you have to show more again when reading this page) you will find this “cookie table” , it is a list of the used cookies on the site and their purpose.

These days sites are not “published” or submitted to search engines. The search engines are constantly crawling the internet for new content, and will automagically pick up new websites… unless the owner took specific steps to block search engines.

On the matter of the search engines crawling for sites, thank you for clearing this up but I suppose that if the SEO has not been completed then would the search engines find little to publish?

Cookies don’t “come” to websites. The specific website you visit (and 3rd-party widgets embedded in the site) set the cookies (tiny computer files) on the visitors’ computers.

Thank you for explaining this to me at least now I know that social media links do not create cookies when they are used to visit the site.

For what its worth, here’s documentation on the cookies that WordPress sets: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/WordPress_Cookies

Note that individual plugins, themes, and 3rd-party widgets and code embedded on the site may set additional cookies.

Reading this page, it goes through the “login” cookies which are only being used by myself to log into the dashboard as there is no “Login” option for the end user. Would this mean that I would not have to list these cookies to the end user in the privacy policy?

You can use sites like https://www.cookie-checker.com/ to find what cookies are set by any website.

Is this a) safe to use and b) does is explain what the cookies are as in their purpose as that is the other part of the cookie table that needs to be filled out.

What is the actual problem you’re solving? What are you trying to accomplish?

Sorry if I was not being clear on this , the problem is down to getting all of the used cookies on this site found and what their purpose is so that when an end user clicks on the privacy policy on the site they can view these.

Kind Regards

TimCS