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Plugin Description
One-click solution to automatically serve external assets from your local website.
No configuration and no coding required – activate the plugin and forget about it.
Disclaimer
This plugin does not provide any guarantees of making your website GDPR-compliant. As a website operator, you are always responsible to verify if this plugin works for you and collect consent for external scripts before loading them in the visitor’s browser.
How it works
The plugin scans every URL that is enqueued via wp_enqueue_script() and wp_enqueue_style(). When detecting external URL, that file is saved to your uploads-folder and served from there.
It also scans the contents of CSS files for external dependencies and also saves those files to your uploads-folder!
Heads-up: For technical reasons, we cannot scan the contents of JS files for such dependencies – JS files can always inject external assets
Background worker
To speed up your websites loading time, all assets are downloaded in a background process: When a new asset is detected, or a cached file expires, a worker-task is enqueued.
The queue is then processed in an asynchronous process; while the queue is processed, your website could still serve the external assets for a while – usually the queue is processed within one or two minutes.
Options page
You’ll find the plugin options page at Tools > GDPR Cache. On that page you can invalidate all assets and see a list of the entire cache.
When you deactivate the plugin, the entire cache is purged (all files are deleted and relevant DB values are reset)
Screenshots
Without this plugin: A website uses a Google Font, and the visitor’s browser connects to 2 external servers
With this plugin: The Google Font files are saved to your website and served locally. No request to Google’s server is made!
The options-page displays a list of all cached files and gives the option to invalidate all files.
