WP Full Picture controls all tracking tools that you installed with its modules. This means, it blocks them and only lets them load them when visitors consent to tracking (unless your banner settings are different).
However, if you have installed other tools outside WP FP, then you need to instruct WP Full Picture how to control them.
This article explains how to do it.
Step 0. Preparation
Make sure that your consent banner is set to load tracking tools after visitors “opt-in” to it. This is required in 60+ countries in the world, plus it also makes sure that the scan you will soon perform, doesn’t give any false positives.
Step 1. Check if your website uses tools that need to be blocked before consent
Scan your website with 2GDPR scanner to see if there are any tracking tools you need to block.
If you see any results in red (that are NOT related to Google Fonts), continue with this tutorial.
Tools that require tracking consent typically include:
- analytics and marketing tools that use cookies (great majority of tools use them)
- live chats
- scripts for marketing automation
- personalization and conversion optimization tools
If your website uses any of them, then you need to control them.
Step 2. Use the Custom Scripts module to control code snippets of tracking tools
If you installed any tracking tools with a code snippet (usually added to the head of the document), then simply move them to the Custom Scripts module.
Step 3. Control the loading of tools installed with other plugins
Attention. This step is for developers. If you are not a developer, then pay close attention to what I write. I tried to explain it in as simple language as possible, but it may still be tricky.
If you installed some tracking tools with other plugins, then follow the instructions below:
1. Disable combining JavaScript files in your caching plugin
If you use a caching plugin, then view its settings. Make sure it does not combine JavaScript files. This step is very important. If you block a script that is combined with other scripts, then your site will break.
2. Open your website in incognito mode
No extra explanation needed.
3. View its source
Click anywhere on the page with your right mouse button and select “View source”.
4. Open a notepad on your device
5. Look for links to your tracking plugins in <script> tags
Search the source code for <script> tags that look like this.
<script src="https://yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins/some-plugin-folder/assets/js/file.js">Some links in the “src” part may contain the name of the folder where your tracking plugin is installed, e.g. “https://yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins/some-tracking-plugin/assets/js/file.js”.
Write down all the links that you find in your notepad.
If you are not a developer, then install this tiny plugin that I made for you. It displays the names of folders where your plugins are installed. You should look for these names in the source code.
6. Look for <script>, <link> and <img> tags with links to tracking tools
Now, go through the code and find scripts, links and image tags that contain links to tools that can track your visitors.
For example, if you use a Smartsupp live chat, then look for “smartsupp”.
Write down all links that you find – including information, if you found it in a <link>, <script> or <img> tag.
7. Look for <script> tags that contain tracking code
Finally, some tracking plugins may add tracking code directly to the page – wrapped around <script> tags.
<script>some code</script>Look for code in such places and see if it contains any information about what it does. If it is a tracking code, then you need to block it.
Write down in your notepad any unique texts that there may be in the code. Usually these are identifiers/keys.
8. Fill in the form with their details
When you do all of the above:
- go to the Consent Banner module
- open section “Control tracking tools”
- click “Control other tools”
You will find there a form, that you need to fill in with the information that you noted.
In the dropdown “Control loading of” choose the type of HTML tag from your notes, e.g. script, link, image.
Put the link / unique content in the field next to it.
9. Test your website if everything works OK
If it does not, then try disabling some blocking rules.
Step 4. Final scan
After your changes, you can scan your website again. If you did everything correctly, there should be no red flags.