During the scanning process, the plugin aims to identify and categorize most of the cookies present on your site using its comprehensive Cookie Dictionary. However, there may be instances where certain cookies may not automatically get categorized or identified. This can happen due to various reasons, such as:
- New or uncommon cookies that are not yet included in the Cookie Dictionary.
- Cookies with non-standard or unclear names or sources.
- During the scan, specific conditions may not trigger the generation of cookies dynamically.
- Cookies with short lifespans or those that expire quickly.
GDPR Cookie Consent plugin allows users to manually add cookies to the banner when the system fails to identify them automatically. This ensures comprehensive coverage and compliance.
Steps to manually add a cookie
To add the cookies manually,
- From the Dashboard, Click on GDPR Cookie Consent > Manage Cookies.
- Now select the Cookie List option. This lists the various cookie categories such as
- Necessary
- Functional
- Analytics
- Performance
- Advertisement
- uncategorized
- Cookies can be added manually to each category by clicking on the corresponding + Add Cookie button.
- Add the cookie details to the Add New Cookie page that pops up. The following is a screenshot of the Add New Cookie page.
The following are the fields in the Add New Cookie page.
- Cookie Name: Enter the name of the cookie. You can add a user-friendly name, as this field is for audit purposes.
- Domain: Add the domain from which the cookie is being installed on the user’s browser.
- Duration: Specify the duration for which the cookies will persist on the user’s browser.
- Description: Enter the description of the cookie to help users clearly understand the purpose of a cookie, the type of data it collects, etc.
- After all the details have been added as above, click on the Save cookie button to add the cookie to the Cookie List.
Manually blocking a script by using a pattern
Blocking scripts based on their URL pattern is a common approach in cookie consent management and privacy compliance to prevent specific scripts from loading unless users give consent. This ensures that third-party tracking, advertising, or analytics scripts don’t execute without user consent.
- Script URL Pattern: This option is in the Advanced Options section. Third-party URL patterns can be added here to enable auto-blocking before consent. For example, Consider a third-party script is trying to setup Google Analytics cookies, adding the pattern “Google-analytics.com” will block the script until the user consents.
Albus Bui
March 26, 2024
Hi,
This is Albus from LeadDesk. We are using GDPR Consent plugin for our website cookies (leaddesk.com) and am now reaching out to ask for help on the following.
1. Consent template
Our legal team requires us to update the website cookie consent so that it can include clear options for visitors and the consent text should also be complied (attached is one example). I would like to ask if you have any ready-made template for us to choose from? Any other advice are highly appreciated.
2. Suggestions/Practices for Opt-out Option
We also want to make it easy for visitor to opt-out after they confirmed their consent. Do you have any best practices for that? If you have any, or know any good ones from your clients, please kindly advise.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon! Thank you in advance!
Hema
March 28, 2024
Hello Albus,
Thanks for reaching out. We have received your query in our support desk and one of our agents will assist you.
Ján Kadlečík
January 18, 2022
If i add my scripts to “Head scripts” in cookie category should i delete this scripts from appearence – edit theme – header.php, or from plugins like insert header and footers, elementor custom code etc. ?
Thanks for answer i couldnt find in docs.
Mark
January 19, 2022
Hi Ján,
We are here to assist!
Yes, you would have to keep a single script. So, you should delete it from anywhere else after copying it to the cookie category.
Alex
August 17, 2021
Hi,
I have lost the “Always Enabled” option for “necessary” cookies
Although I activate this in category parameters, it does not change anything
And I don’t have all the info in the category edit, “load on start”, “make this as strictly necessary “, is that in the premium version?
Any idea?
Thanks and regards,
Alex
Mark
August 24, 2021
Hi Alex,
Thanks for reaching out.
Please ensure that the category slug is set to ‘necessary’ for the category that you want to set as Always Enabled. As for the load on start and strictly necessary options, those are premium version features.
KIJO
August 3, 2021
There is no Head and Body scripts boxes on my version? Is an additional plugins required? Thanks
Mark
August 4, 2021
Hi Kijo,
Please mention which version of the plugin you are using.
Krešimir
December 3, 2020
Hi,
I can’t find out why cookie list not saving custom fields from the right sidebar (id, duration, sensitivity…), I think it may be more WordPress database problem but I can’t find anywhere proper solution.
Thanks!
Mark
December 7, 2020
Since this is a site specific problem, please reach out via support forum with site details.
Agnes LESAGE
November 24, 2020
If I set one cookie (for example, GA) under category “Analytics”, and I set this category to be enabled by default, I understand GA cookie will be set.
Is there a difference setting it “load on start”? That means it will be set even faster, before the user accepts or scrolls?
Now what happens if the user disable “Analytics” category?
Agnes LESAGE
November 24, 2020
I am confused between:
– sensitivity (necessary / non necessary)
– categories (idem or else)
Should I understand that the necessary cookies (set as such by snetivity) will always be activated, even if they are presented in the “non necessary” category?
Olivier Kerkhofs
November 19, 2020
Hi,
When I look at the settings of the Webtoffee website, I see for example under the Necessary category a nice table with only the necessary cookies. Under the Non-necessary category a nice table with all the non-necessary cookies.
How can I get this in the free version of GDPR Cookie consent?
Thanks!
Mark
November 20, 2020
Hi Olivier,
Please refer to this article to know how to list the cookies below each category accordian.