Lightweight Cookie Notice offers a robust set of features and customization options for managing cookie notifications on WordPress websites. Here is a detailed overview:
Key Features:
- Lightweight JavaScript: Utilizes a single 8kb file written in pure JavaScript for handling DOM, styles, and events, reducing additional HTTP requests for improved SEO.
- WordPress Transients API Support: Efficient use of Transients API with zero PHP performance impact, minimizing database queries.
- Extensive Customization: Offers 112 customization options, allowing control over the style, content, geolocation settings, plugin functionalities, and more.
- Geolocation: Enables displaying cookie notices based on visitor location using IP geolocation services like HostIP.info or MaxMind GeoLite2 database.
- Support for Caching Plugins: Compatible with popular caching plugins such as WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache, LiteSpeed Cache, etc., with detailed configuration instructions provided.
- Multiple Cookie Categories: Allows visitors to activate or deactivate specific cookie categories via toggles in the settings modal window.
- Display Cookie Lists: Provides a Gutenberg block or shortcode to display cookie lists in posts or settings modal windows, offering details like name, expiration, purpose, provider, etc.
- Delete Cookie Preferences Button: Offers a user-friendly button to delete cookie preferences, enabling users to manage their consent easily.
- Custom Expiration Period: Allows customization of the expiration period for user-set cookie preferences.
- Test Mode: Enables administrators to preview and interact with the cookie notice without displaying it live on the website.
- Gutenberg Compatibility: Provides Gutenberg blocks for cookie lists and deleting preferences, catering to the new WordPress editor.
- Import and Export Feature: Facilitates archiving plugin data as XML files for easy transfer between websites, ensuring seamless setup on multiple sites.
Benefits:
- Efficiency: Lightweight, JavaScript-based approach reduces page load times and unnecessary requests.
- Granular Control: Extensive customization options offer control over cookie notice appearance and behavior.
- Geotargeting: Allows displaying notices based on visitor location, enhancing relevancy.
- User Interaction: Enables visitors to manage cookie preferences conveniently.
- Compatibility: Works smoothly with major caching plugins and the Gutenberg editor.
Use Cases:
- Enhancing Compliance: Helps websites conform to privacy regulations by providing transparent cookie management.
- Improving UX: Enables users to manage their cookie preferences easily and choose which categories to enable or disable.
- Multisite Management: Import and export feature aids in maintaining consistent cookie settings across multiple websites.
Lightweight Cookie Notification is a powerful tool for managing cookies while giving users control and transparency over their consent on WordPress websites.