WordPress session cookie (“visited”)

  • Resolved Ate Up With Motor

    (@ate-up-with-motor)


    6 years, 6 months ago

    It seems that when a visitor first arrives at the site, WordPress places a session cookie called “visited” in their browser, which I think tells WordPress whether the visitor is a logged-in user or not. (My website does not have user registration, so the only logged-in user is me.) I can’t figure out how to not set this cookie based on consent, since it’s set upon arrival, before the visitor has the chance to take any action.

    Is this something the GDPR plugin can help to control?

    (This is all very overwhelming for my technical knowledge, but it seems like it should be a common situation for WordPress users.)

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Did you switch plugins after you made this post? The consent bar is not the one from this plugin.

    Thread Starter Ate Up With Motor

    (@ate-up-with-motor)

    I didn’t switch, but I also activated Google Analytics Germanized. The visible consent bar/cookie is from that plugin.

    (I want to either integrate the two or use only GDPR, but there are various pieces I haven’t figured out yet.)

    Regarding the visited cookie. Personally I wasn’t able to reproduce it on your site. You might want to audit your plugins, but you could also check the Cookie’s value. If the cookie doesn’t contain personal information it’s safe to just leave.

    Browser plugins/extensions can set cookies too. Might be coming from there

    Thread Starter Ate Up With Motor

    (@ate-up-with-motor)

    Ahh, I found the problem — it was a caching issue related to a cookie banner plugin that GDPR will hopefully be replacing!

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