Delete Cookies Shortcode Doesn’t Do Anything

  • Resolved Martin Blumenfeld

    (@monkeypress)


    6 years, 4 months ago

    Hey, we tried the delete cookies shortcode and it outputs the delete link, but clicking it doesn’t do anything. Is it supposed to delete the cookies listed in the backend? Or do I need to manually code this myself? We do have the reject button disabled if that matters.

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  • Hi @monkeypress,

    The GDPR Cookie Consent plugin creates a cookie named viewed_cookie_policy to record the users’ consent. The [delete_cookies] shortcode is used to delete this cookie set by the plugin.

    Thread Starter Martin Blumenfeld

    (@monkeypress)

    The cookie bar itself works, but clicking the “delete_cookies” link doesn’t do anything. Is it supposed to refresh the page and delete the cookie or something?

    Hi @monkeypress,

    The ‘delete cookies’ link will only delete the cookie named viewed_cookie_policy from the browser. You can see the change reflected from the developer console of your browser after a page refresh.

    Thread Starter Martin Blumenfeld

    (@monkeypress)

    So it actually works? Maybe a nice update would be to show the user that it actually worked. Right now you click the link and nothing happens.

    Hi @monkeypress,

    The delete cookies link does delete the cookie set by the GDPR cookie consent plugin on refreshing the page.
    You may add the following code in line 186 in cookie-law-info/js/cookielawinfo.js to reload the page automatically when clicked on the delete cookies link. 

    jQuery("#cookielawinfo-cookie-delete").click(function() {
Cookie.erase(ACCEPT_COOKIE_NAME);
location.reload();
return false;
});
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