Analytics with Consent

A WordPress plugin that combines a basic implementation of the Civic Cookie Control Mechanism with a basic implementation of Google Analytics (pageview tracking only).

Installation

With Whippet:

• Follow the instructions in the Whippet documentation

Without Whippet (not recommended):

• Copy this repo into your wp-content/plugins/ folder.

Setup

You will need:

• A Civic Cookie Control API Key:
  • Use the Civic Cookie Control download page
  • Select the licence: "Community" (usually), "Pro" or "Multisite" (if required)
  • Complete the form. This can be set up using standard client email i.e. @clients.govpress.com
  • Check email for API details
  • Save the CivicUK login and API details in 1Password
  • Login to CivicUK
  • Set the domain
    The setup can be tested on staging sites by setting the domain in the CivicUK account to the staging domain, then changing it to the production domain for release.
• A Universal Analytics Tracking ID from Google Analytics (usually in format UA-xxxxxxxx-x), or a Google Analytics 4 Measurement ID (format G-xxxxxxxxxx) or a Google Tag Manager id (format GTM-xxxxxx).

Note: GTM should only be used for embedding Google Analytics, because the cookie consent mechanism will not cover other scripts that could be embedded via GTM.

Activate the plugin, and add the relevant info to the plugin's settings page under Settings > Analytics with Consent.

On a multisite, this will need to be done on a per-subsite basis.

Customisation

You can use the awc_civic_cookie_control_config filter to add to or over-ride the default Civic Cookie Control config this plugin provides.

e.g. if you wanted to change the panel position from left to right, in your plugin or theme:

add_filter('awc_civic_cookie_control_config', function ($config) {
    $config['position'] = 'RIGHT';
    return $config;
});

If you're adding config that requires JavaScript function calls (e.g. the "onAccept" and "onRevoke" parameters for specific cookie types), you can pass the name of any function that is in the global namespace. e.g.

add_filter('awc_civic_cookie_control_config', function ($config) {
    $config['optionalCookies'][0]['onAccept] = 'doThis'; \\this will call the doThis() function in the global namespace
    return $config;
});

You can also do the same with namespaced functions (as long as the top-level object is in the global namespace). e.g.

add_filter('awc_civic_cookie_control_config', function ($config) {
    $config['optionalCookies'][0]['onAccept] = 'myNamespace.doThis'; \\this will call the myNamespace.doThis() function
    return $config;
});

Note that you can't pass JavaScript closures directly.

CHANGELOG and versioning

Please update the CHANGELOG as you develop, and publish and tag new releases.

As well as the individual version tags, we also have a major version tag (currently v1) that tracks the latest release for that major version. That has to be manually updated after you've done the release on GitHub as follows:

(e.g. if you'd just published v1.6.0):

git checkout main git fetch --tags -f git tag -f v1 v1.6.0 git push origin -f --tags