The best way to test geolocation and its effect on tracking and the consent banner is to use Setup mode – the standard way to test WP Full Picture’s settings introduced in WP FP 9.0.
The moment you start testing your website, the geolocation cookie will be cleared, and a new geolocation call will be made.
The geolocation result will be available in the “fp_country” cookie and in the fpdata variable which you can look up in the browser console.
Depending on which geolocation service you chose, you will see 3 geolocation variables in the fpdata object:
- fpdata.country
- fpdata.region
- and fpdata.geo (available only on the page when the initial geolocation call was made)
If you use a VPN service, then your geolocation result will be different to your country or “unknown”
If you want to test how your tracking setup will work in different countries, please use the URL parameter “fp_set_country”, for example:
https://mysite.com?fp_set_country=PL This will force the country to be recognized as Poland. All other tracking scripts installed with WP FP and the consent banner will work as if it was your current location.