To customize the look and content of the cookie popup, go to Cookies > Cookie consent and choose Customize in Cookie Consent pop-up
Default Content - Details in the cookie popup that informs the user of its use.
- Header - Set the text for the header of the pop-up
- Description - Set the text for the description of the pop-up
Buttons In this section set text for the buttons used in the pop-up
Accept
- Text - can add custom text. If the field will be left blank the app will use the default text.
Change settings
- Text - can add custom text. If the field will be left blank the app will use the default text.
Read more
- Text - can add custom text. If the field will be left blank the app will use the default text.
- Page to open - choose the page to which user will be forwarded after clicking the button (can be choose from Existing page, Custom URL) the button also can be hidden choosing No page option.
- Open in new tab - if checked, Read more page will be open in new tab.
Note
To see the Change settings button in the cookie consent pop-up make sure to check the Enable cookie settings pop-up on path (Cookie > Cookie consent).
Translation for ... - This section allows to create a Default Content for a different language. If the checkbox is checked (1) the translation will be used when certain language is detected.
To select who will see the pop-up, where it will be displayed and when it will appear again after consent is given please go to Cookies > Cookie consent and scroll to Cookie consent pop-up section
Visitors to be asked for consent - from the list admin can choose what type of visitors will see the consent pop-up
- Show pop-up to and block cookies for visitors from the EU only - this option mean that only visitors from EU will see the pop-up an the cookies will be blocked. For other users this functionality won’t be active.
- Show pop-up to and block cookies for all visitors - this will allow to show the pop-up and block the cookies for all visitors no matter from where they are
- Don’t show pop-up to anyone (blocking cookies is still possible as per other settings) - option won’t be active.
Pages to display pop-up - here admin can set on which pages the mentioned above pop-up will be visible
- All pages - visible on all pages created.
- Selected page only - admin will get here an option on which pages the pop-up will be seen.
Default cookie consent level - The level which will be set after visitor clicks the “Accept” button in the pop-up.
Reload page after consent is given - After accepting consent or changing the level (and saving it) the page will auto reload. If this option won’t be choose, the saved changes won’t be added on page until visitor won’t reload the page manually.
Consent expiration time - The time until visitors are asked for consent again.
To show the Change settings button in the Cookie consent pop-up make sure to check the Enable cookie settings pop-up (1) To show the Trigger button on the site please check the Display floating button (2) option. Both can be found in Cookie Consent > Cookie settings pop-up.
To customize the look and content of the cookie settings pop-up, go to Cookies > Cookie consent and choose Customize in Cookie settings pop-up
Content - Details in the cookie settings that inform how user can manipulate cookies groups via this section.
- Header - Set the text for the header of the pop-up
- Description - Set the text for the description of the pop-up
Learn more link - In this section set text for the link used in the pop-up
- Text - add custom text
- Page to open - choose the page to which user will be forwarded after clicking the button (can be choose from Existing page, Custom URL) the link also can be hidden choosing No page option.
Level selector.
- Header - set the header text of the pop-up
- Default level - choose the default level which will be active for the visitor
- Available features header / Not available features header - allow to add custom text for those section. If left empty the app will use the default text
- Cookie levels.
- Available Levels - Each of the 5 levels can be edited independently. To edited specific page please click on it.
- Label - set the name of the label or leave it empty to use the default one
- Available features - add available features of this group.
- Not available features - add available features of this group.
- Don’t display this level in the pop-up - ich checked this level will not be shown in the settings pop-up
Currently available cookies level are:
- Essential - for cookies which are strictly necessary for your website to be able to operate or to provide user with a requested service
- Functional - these are cookies that are designed for purposes such as enhancing a website’s functionality. These are either not strictly essential for the website or functionality which user has requested to work, or are cookies which serve non-essential purposes in addition to their essential purpose.
- Analytics - Analytical (or performance) cookies track and gather data about what a user does on a website.
- Advertising - Targeting (or advertising) cookies record information about your visit to and use of our website, for advertising purposes.
- Save button
- Text- Set custom text for the Save button or leave it blank to use the default one
You can show a table with all cookies collected by your website with simple shortcode: {{ultimate_gdpr_cookie_list}}
Active cookies will be displayed in a table, like the following:
Note
Your website should be publicly accessible to correctly detect all cookies that are used on it
When a scenario that the set default privacy group is ‘Block all’ and the user will select ‘Block all’ cookie, the user will see the cookie popup over and over since the user blocked saving cookies and there is no way for the system to know that the user already accepted the cookie consent.
Whitelist cookies are cookies that are allowed even if you choose to Block all cookies in the site.
You can add whitelisted cookies in Cookies > Cookie consent > Cookie whitelist:
This way you can allow selected cookies to be accepted even if cookie setting is set to ‘Block all’.
Note
User’s privacy settings (whether he accepts cookies or not, and what group of cookies) consent is saved in our ultimate-gdpr-cookie
In the Ultimate GDPR & CCPA Toolkit we provide an option to open cookie modal using a link, which you can display/add in any page on the site.
To do this, you can use shortcode: {{ultimate_gdpr_cookie_modal}} & {{/ultimate_gdpr_cookie_modal}}
You can add these shortcodes in the page that you would like to add the link.
Sample format:
{{ultimate_gdpr_cookie_modal}} Change cookie settings {{/ultimate_gdpr_cookie_modal}}
Front end:
Wish to customise the Advance Cookie Settings, but don’t know how? Please follow this part of our documentation.