CookieYes | GDPR Cookie Consent & Compliance Notice (CCPA Ready)

Changelog

3.0.9

Tested OK with WordPress version 6.2

3.0.8

[Enhancement] – Support for CPRA ( Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information )
[Enhancement] – Option to edit show more/less texts
[Enhancement] – Compatibility with Bedrock WordPress boilerplate

3.0.7

[Enhancement] – New CCPA Opt-out center
[Fix] – Not able to change the Optout preference center text color
[Fix] – Not able to disable the “Reject All” button from preference center

3.0.6

[Enhancement] – Clickable video placeholders
[Fix] – Revisit consent button color is not reset on colour scheme changes

3.0.5

[Enhancement] – Reduced revisit consent button size

3.0.4

[Fix] – Table existing check failure on the IIS web server
[Enhancement] – Added option to reset the plugin settings & switch to the new plugin UI
[Enhancement] – Added width and height attribute to all the img tags on the cookie banner

3.0.3

• [Enhancement] – HTML support for banner and cookie descriptions
• [Fix] – Style conflict with Elementor theme templates

3.0.2

• [Enhancement] – Added a custom method to revisit consent outside the banner.
• [Enhancement] – Updated Chart.js library
• [Enhancement] – Enabled automatic updates for the plugin.

3.0.1

• [Enhancement] – Added error notice to the plugin if necessary tables are not created.

3.0.0

• UI/UX improvements
• New cookie consent banner design (compliant with WCAG guidelines)
• Advanced banner customization options (GDPR/CCPA cookie banner templates, set consent expiration period, enable/disable prior consent, show/hide categories on the banner, new banner layouts, advanced content customization, light/dark/custom color scheme, etc.)
• Banner preview in the customizer
• Pre-built translations for multiple languages
• Privacy Policy Generator
• Access to additional free features with web app connection (cookie scan, consent log, etc.)

2.1.3

• [Enhancement] – Revisit consent will be enabled by default
• [Enhancement] – Update in policy generator

2.1.2

• Fix – Accept/Reject button is not working as expected with some themes.

2.1.1

• Fix – Compatibility issue with PHP 7.3.0 and below.

2.1.0

• Improved: Validation & escaping for Security Enhancement.

2.0.9

• Fix – Removed cache flush helper functions
• Tested ok with WordPress version 5.9

2.0.8

• Fix – Compatibility issue with WordPress 4.7.0 and below.

2.0.7

• Fix – Conflict with W3 Total Cache plugin
• Fix – Accessibility issue ( Hidden element has a focusable content )
• Fix – Opacity of the cookie banner is set to 0.1 after closing the settings popup.

2.0.6

• Fix: Removed extract() function from the shortcodes module to improve security.

2.0.5

• Enhancement: Disable cookie bar on page builders.
• Tested ok with WordPress version 5.8

2.0.4

• Bug fix: Do not sell option appears before Accept all button option on the admin settings.
• Tested ok with WordPress version 5.6
• Enhancement: Added escaping to input attributes.

2.0.3

• Enhancement – Default cookie banner message update.

2.0.2

• Enhancement – Added reject button by default
• Enhancement – Help text improvements

2.0.1

• Enhancement – New shortcode [cookie_accept_all] to add accept all button to the banner
• Enhancement – MonsterInsights integration
• Enhancement – New filter wt_cli_set_secure_cookies to set plugin cookies as secure
• Fix – Site map issue with cookie category
• Fix – Cookie categories are not ordered properly in secondary languages

2.0.0

• Introduced website cookie scanner
• Introduced dynamic cookie categories

1.9.5

• Tested ok with WordPress version 5.6

1.9.4

• Renamed show again tab to revisit consent
• New shortcode wt_cli_manage_consent option for revisit consent

1.9.3

• Fix: Editors unable to access the dashboard due to recent security update

1.9.2

• Improvement: Option to change the title for necessary and non-necessary categories
• Improvement: Added support for Official Facebook Pixel, Smash Balloon Instagram Feed & Twitter Feed plugins.

1.9.1

• Fix – Conflict with the Divi page builder

1.9.0

• Fix – Javascript error on IE after 1.8.9 update
• Fix – Conflict with the theme customizer
• Tested ok with WordPress version 5.5
• Updated translation files for Finnish

1.8.9

• Included support for CCPA ( Do not sell personal information )
• Added javascript-based solution for running third-party scripts
• Added support for external integration to modify the default behaviour of the plugin

1.8.8

• Introduced ‘wt_cli_enable_cache_flush’ filter to enable / disable cache flushing
• Cookie elements are excluded from the Google search engine indexing (<! – googleoff: all ->)

1.8.7

• Tested ok with WordPress version 5.4.0

1.8.6

• [Bug fix] Privacy overview is not visible if the content is in Cyrillic alphabets
• [Improvements] Fixed compatibility issues with Decorator – WooCommerce Email Customizer

1.8.5

• Bug fix w.r.t the plugin release version 1.8.4

1.8.4

• Defaulted privacy overview heading tag to H4
• Introduced ‘wt_cli_change_privacy_overview_title_tag’ filter to change privacy overview heading tag
• Introduced ‘wt_cli_add_custom_cookie_categories_name’ filter to change cookie category names

1.8.3

• PHP 7.4 compatibility
• Security fix

1.8.2

• Tested ok with WP 5.3

1.8.1

• Added option in admin to modify the default button state of the non-necessary cookie category
• [Bug fix] Show more / show less issue when custom text editor is used in the privacy overview content.
• Updated translations
• Read me updates

1.8.0

• [Bug fix] Warning fixes

1.7.9

• Fixed W3C Validation issues
• [Bug fix] Hide non-necessary category on cookie settings popup if it is not enabled
• [Bug fix] Translation issue with category cookies

1.7.8

• Fixed issues with translations
• [user_consent_state] added missing space in user consent states
• Fixed issues with web accessibility

1.7.7

• Introduced new cookie settings popup option
• Added a shortcode [cookie_settings] to control settings
• Option to add descriptions for both necessary and non-necessary cookies
• Tested ok with WP 5.2
• [Bug fix] Responsive styling issues for cookie audit table winter theme

1.7.6

• Updated translation files for German, Danish, French, Dutch & Spanish
• Added support for Portuguese
• [Bug fix] [cookie_audit] shortcode conflict with heading

1.7.5

• Defaulted the minimize cookie bar option for Read more link to disabled state.
• The cookie message bar has been defaulted to include Reject option in addition to Accept.

1.7.4

• Cookie policy generator
• Added a shortcode [user_consent_state]
• Updated shortcode [cookie_audit] with option to configure columns
• Margin option added in all button shortcodes
• Introduced an option to hide cookie bar on policy page
• Tested ok with WP 5.1

1.7.3

• Translation updated – Danish, French, German
• Readme updates
• Minor UI changes

1.7.2

• Tested ok with WordPress version 5.0.2
• Compatibility added for Pixelyoursite plugin

1.7.1

• Cookie notice as Widget option added

1.7.0

• Bug: Submenu sorting issue for custom user roles

1.6.10

• Bug: submenu sorting issue for non administrator accounts
• Bug: Flashing the cookie bar on page load.

1.6.9

• New enclosing shortcode added for better control of third party content. [cookie_after_accept]..content goes here..[/cookie_after_accept]
• Basic support included for Litespeed cache, WP Super Cache, Site ground cache, Endurance Cache, WP Fastest Cache.
• Option to choose from the built-in pages for ‘Read More’ link.

1.6.8

• Corrected German translations (thanks to Max B)
• Bug in ‘Show cookie bar on selected pages’ Filter fixed
• W3TC page cache compatibility added

1.6.7

• In the previous update a title with default text ‘This website uses cookies‘ would get added to the existing cookie bar. In this update this title will get removed to that it is blank by default. In case you need this to be added again you need to explicitly add suitable content for the title.
• Addressed the conflict with [cookie_reject] shortcode for previous users who had the reject button option enabled.
• Optimized the plugin js and css assets to render only in plugin pages.

1.6.6

• Improved UI.
• Enhancements to cookie message bar – included title and option for overlay layout.

1.6.5

• Filter added. (filter to edit audit table head)

1.6.4

• Class change.
• Bug fix.

1.6.3

• Styling issues with winter style of cookie audit table shortcode fixed.
• Functionality issues with reject button on open URL fixed.
• Text corrections

1.6.2

• Issue with reject button colour fixed.

1.6.1

• Filter to display cookie bar only on selected pages.

1.6.0

• Issue with dual accept button.

1.5.9

• Issue with the plugin interfering with breadcrumb fixed.

1.5.8

• Support for underline tag in the message bar.

1.5.7

• Danish translation added

1.5.6

• Changed Reject button colour for Open URL and Close Header options.
• Padding for message header
• Audit table mobile view compatible

1.5.5

• AVG updates over vereisten.

1.5.4

• Tested OK with WordPress 4.9.5
• AVG updates over vereisten.

1.5.3

• Bug fix: Buttons now handle apostrophes correctly
• Bug fix: Added to table head for [cookie_audit] table for W3 Validator (thanks to davidebabylonia for finding and suggesting the solution)

1.5.2

• Minor bug fix: adds version number to cli-admin.css

1.5.1

• Bug fix: HTML5 validation fix for shortcode links (thanks to davidebabylonia)
• Added JavaScript version number for greater compatibility

1.5

• Major update: the cookie bar is now inserted into the page via wp_footer rather than using jQuery (for better performance and greater browser compatibility)
• Update: if the cookie bar is in the header, there is now an option to fix the bar to the header using position:fixed

1.4.3

• jQuery ‘reload’ bug fix on accept

1.4.1

• Bug fix: fixed browser compatibility issue in cookielawinfo.js

1.4

• New feature: accept policy & close cookie bar on scroll (an option available under Italian law)
• New feature: if cookie bar is set to header it is fixed to the top of the screen (using CSS “position:fixed”)

1.3.2

• Bug fix: changed filename from wpml.xml to wpml-config.xml

1.3.1

• Fixing header/SVN tagging issue

1.3

• Adding WPML support (wpml.xml)

1.2.2

• Bug fix: removed extra ‘{‘ from cli-tables.css
• Bug fix: fixed cookie_button shortcode text bug
• Modified help pages, text and contact information

1.2.1

• Added plugin settings page link to plugins.php
• Bug fix: custom posts bug affecting some other plugins

1.2

• Removed 3rd party JavaScript “jQuery.cookie” which can cause issues with certain versions of Apache server
• Added native JavaScript cookie getter/setter
• Removed JavaScript debug routine
• Replaced JavaScript ‘eval’ with JSON.parse() for improved security: requires IE8+ (all other browsers fine though- who would have thought?)
• Improved JavaScript performance and compatibility by removing global variables and running as inline function

1.1

• New feature: auto-hide cookie bar after (configurable) delay
• New feature: added responsive design to cookie audit table (thanks to Mark Wiltshire)
• Upgrade: now using WP3.5 color picker
• Bug fix: Cookie Audit table now shows maximum of 50 posts (was 10, which was a bit restrictive)
• Bug fix: Cookie Law Info now only visible to admins
• Bug fix: fixed typo on Dashboard help section for the [delete_cookies] shortcode
• Bug fix: fixed “invalid header” bug
• Performance enhancement: removed jQueryUI from admin panel and added custom (slimline) code
• Performance enhancement: compressed CSS a bit
• Performance enhancement: cookie audit CSS is now only downloaded on the page on which it is needed

1.0.3

• Fixed bug where JavaScript generated an http 404 error.

0.9

• Verbeterd ontwerp & weergave
• Cookie Law Info bar can be shown in header or footer
• Lettertypes aanpassen
• New animations on page load / close header
• Option to switch off “show again tab” – or position it anywhere horizontally in the header or footer. Additionally the styling has been improved and you are now able to customise the message.
• New button styles: better styling and effects, greater control
• Customise your message using HTML and 5 shortcodes with quick-start default options
• “Cookie Audit” module – document the cookies your site uses then display them in your privacy policy via a shortcode
• Enhanced dashboard
• Enhanced help section
• Refactored codebase, improved jQuery performance
• Bugs fixed: no more slashes in Message Box

0.8.3

• First public release.