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cookie-cat v1.4.3 tested with WordPress 4.7.3 and PHP 7.1

April 3, 2017 by vsgloik

cookie-cat v1.4.3 is now available to download from wordpress.org

Filed Under: 1 - Strictly necessary

Cookie-category v1.2.0 – tested with PHP 7.1

April 3, 2017 by vsgloik

This site is now running cookie-category v1.2.0 which has been tested with PHP 7.1 and WordPress 4.7.3.

Filed Under: 1 - Strictly necessary

Privacy policy broken links

October 28, 2016 by vsgloik

A couple of months ago I noticed that the link to Google’s video about cookies was broken. The “Good to Know” video is still available on the How Google uses cookies page. You may want to update your Privacy policy page.

Filed Under: News, plugin Tagged With: broken link, oik-privacy-policy

cookie-cat updated to WordPress 4.4

December 10, 2015 by vsgloik

The cookie-cat website has now been updated to WordPress 4.4

Filed Under: WordPress

cookie-cat gets a makeover

May 13, 2015 by vsgloik

Almost exactly three years after its launch in May 2012, the cookie-cat site has been remodelled.

Filed Under: News

cookie-cat plugin under review on WordPress.org

July 15, 2013 by vsgloik

The cookie-cat plugin on has recently been reviewed. It appears there are some issues to address with regards to unauthorized passing of cookie information from the client website to the cookie-cat server. We are working to resolve these issues.

Filed Under: News

cookies mapped recently

December 12, 2012 by vsgloik

Cookies that have recently been mapped to plugins (during week 50) include.

Filed Under: 1 - Strictly necessary

cookie-cat being updated to WordPress 3.5

December 12, 2012 by vsgloik

Just to let you know that cookie-cat is going to be offline as it gets upgraded to WordPress 3.5 If your cookie catalog XML file contains a load of “unknown” values then please can you try again later.

Filed Under: News, WordPress Tagged With: 3.5 upgrade

Backlog of plugins to analyze just over 800

August 2, 2012 by vsgloik

Of the 1700 or so downloads of from only 10% have actually used the cookie-cat options page to load the most up to date cookie-cat XML file from this server. This is a blessing in disguise since the backlog of plugins to analyze is not increasing too dramatically BUT it has now exceeded 800.

Filed Under: 1 - Strictly necessary

Processed 50 plugins starting with letter A

July 9, 2012 by vsgloik

It’s a slow and laborious process, even when partly automated, but this afternoon I analyzed approximately 50 plugins that start with the letter A and that cookie-cat users have active on their websites. I found 8 new cookies

Filed Under: News

cookies mapped during weeks 27 & 28

July 5, 2012 by vsgloik

Cookies that have recently been mapped to plugins (during weeks 27 and 28) include.

Filed Under: 1 - Strictly necessary, News

cookie-cat updates: week 24

June 16, 2012 by vsgloik

Cookies that have recently been mapped to plugins (during week 24) include

Filed Under: News

cookie-cat updates: new cookies added to the catalog

June 10, 2012 by vsgloik

Cookies that have recently been mapped to plugins include

Filed Under: 1 - Strictly necessary, 3 - Functionality cookies, News

cookie-cat v1.1 – lapping up the requests

June 10, 2012 by vsgloik

Version 1.1 of cookie-cat delivers a new feature that will enable your website to keep abreast of the latest information on cookies.?

Filed Under: News

Preparing for cookie-cat v1.1

June 5, 2012 by vsgloik

Version 1.1 of the cookie-cat WordPress plugin will be able to query the cookie-cat database of cookies, plugins and cooking to plugin mappings in order that cookie-cat can predict the cookies that your website may serve.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: cookie-category feed

cookie-cat plugin v1.1 in alpha test

June 4, 2012 by vsgloik

I am getting close to releasing version 1.1 of the plugin. I am currently alpha testing it on a number of sites; including and sites

Filed Under: News

Two steps to compliance with the UK cookie law

May 28, 2012 by vsgloik

There now appear to be only TWO steps to compliance with the UK cookie law: Have a Privacy Policy page List the cookies in use

Filed Under: News Tagged With: implied consent

__qca cookie used by jetpack plugin stats module

May 22, 2012 by vsgloik

Obsolete The following information is obsolete. Quantcast was removed from Jetpack in version 2.8, on January 31, 2014. See The Jetpack plugin includes a module called stats which does quite a nice job of displaying At-A-Glance site statistics in your WordPress Admin pages. In order to achieve this it uses a set of external JavaScript […]

Filed Under: 2 - Performance cookies Tagged With: jetpack, manual-control

just updating some plugins

May 19, 2012 by vsgloik

I’m just about to update some plugins to add the ability to display custom columns (metadata) for the custom post types on the cookies, plugins and mapping pages.

Filed Under: News

__qca cookie – category 2 or 3?

May 17, 2012 by vsgloik

Quantcast’s privacy policy doesn’t reference the __qca cookie by name, but it hints as to what functions it performs with cookies in general. They’re quite vague about it, though, which is probably to give them the freedom to do what they want with the information they record. The summary from Quantcast’s ‘log data’ section is […]

Filed Under: 2 - Performance cookies

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