How to Add Cookie Info

Hi @lallenuk,

To find the cookie ID, Using Google Chrome,go to settings > Advanced settings > Privacy and Security > Content Settings > Cookies > See all cookies and site data. Click on the specific cookie. Here you can see the ID of the cookie. In most of the cases, the name of the cookie and the ID are the same. See the screenshot.

You can find the scripts for the cookies from the websites of the services that install them. For example for Google Analytics, you can find the scripts from here.

You can add the cookies in the plugin from the Add new page in the Cookie Law info plugin. The cookies thus added can be displayed to the user anywhere on the website using the shortcode [cookie_audit]. Users can reject the cookies using the Reject button.

The user’s consent is stored in a cookie that the plugin installs named viewed_cookie_policy. When the user accepts, the value of the cookie is ‘yes’ if rejects, the value of the cookie will be ‘no’. You can view this from the developer console of your browser. To see if the scripts are added to the browser or not you can check the source code of the page after the “Accept” or “Reject” event.

Hi @markwt, thanks for the plugin. I want to ask you something. I installed the plugin, and created 2 button with Accept and Reject and a link Cookie Policy. In the cookie settings and in the non necesarry I don’t want to add yet anything. I want to ask you if a visitor enter the website and if they don’t click on any button (Accept or Reject) they just ignore the cookie bar… what happens with the cookies? Nothing? Or they are inactive or not added into the browser by default just by simply install the plugin? Also if they click on Reject (I mention that I didn’t add cookie info in cookie settings neither in non necesarry cookies) what is happening in this case?

I ask you this because I don’t want to add the cookies yet but I want to display the cookie notice bar with Accept and Reject buttons even if they don’t block or give access to no cookie yet. I want to be sure that the cookies are not affected somehow by this plugin and blocking them by default. Thank you.

I hope affiliate third party cookies are not affected even after I add the cookie info and someone click reject (because I think that this links are not using any script on the website..they just redirect the user to the online store) and basically my site does not place the cookie in this case. Am I right?

Thank you.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by frumix2.

Hi markwt,

I used your instructions with Chrome for the cookies. What’s the difference between Channel ID and cookie? There are some where it’s written only Channel ID, what’s that? What does it do?

Thanks,
Davide

Hi.
I see your instructions for fetching the list of all cookies from chrome.
It seems to me that you could also just go directly to here:
LINK
However, that still requires a bit of work to identify each cookie and enter it into your plugin.
Wouldn’t it be possible for the plugin to use code like this (at Stack Overflow)…
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9403614/how-to-get-a-list-of-browser-cookies-using-php
…to find all of the cookies used on the site and then automatically enter them into your plugin’s data?
-Mark