🤝 Working With The ResultsAiX Theme Cookie Notice, WP Consent API And Other Plugins

ResultsAiX Consent is built to live alongside the rest of your site. It works with the ResultsAiX Theme's own cookie notice, hands every answer to the WP Consent API, covers full pages printed by sister plugins, and steps around bars and buttons in the same corner.

Where to find it:

• The theme notice: AiX Consent, Dashboard tab, when the ResultsAiX Theme is active.
• Pages that print themselves: AiX Consent, Blocking tab, Holding trackers back.
• The status of each: AiX Consent, Diagnostics tab, the Theme cookie notice, WP Consent API and Pages that print themselves rows.

The ResultsAiX Theme's own cookie notice:

The ResultsAiX Theme has a simpler cookie notice built in. You never have to choose between them or switch anything off. While this banner is on, the theme's notice steps aside on your public site by itself, so visitors are only ever asked once. Switch this banner off, or remove the plugin, and the theme's notice is back exactly as it was. The Dashboard says which one your visitors see right now.

Copying the theme notice's wording:

Set Me Up copies the theme notice's wording across for you when you have not written your own here yet. The Dashboard also has a Use the theme notice's wording button for any time after that.

What gets copied: the heading, message and button wording, the group descriptions, box or bar shape and position, how long a choice is remembered, and the switches for embed blocking, Consent Mode and the log. The region setting is not copied, because the two work differently.

The theme's settings are never changed. The theme's own screen still shows its notice switched on, and it simply stays off your public site while this banner is on. Theme videos and snippets that the theme holds back follow the answer given in this banner.

WP Consent API:

If the free WP Consent API plugin is installed, every answer given here is handed on to it, so Site Kit, WooCommerce and any other plugin that asks WordPress whether it has consent gets the same answer.

How the groups are handed over:

• Analytics becomes statistics and statistics-anonymous.
• Marketing becomes marketing.
• Preferences becomes preferences.
• functional is always allowed.

The plugin also registers itself with the WP Consent API, tells it the site asks before setting cookies while the banner is on, and lists its own rxc_consent cookie. Without the WP Consent API installed, nothing changes. The Diagnostics tab's WP Consent API row shows which applies.

Free HTML Pages, Webinars and List Builder pages:

These sister plugins print a whole page of their own. On the Blocking tab, Pages that print themselves is set to Add the banner to them too (recommended), so a pixel pasted into one of those pages waits until the visitor agrees and then runs. Choose Leave them completely alone and those pages behave exactly as they would without this plugin.

Pages outside WordPress:

For sales pages and landing pages that WordPress does not build at all, the Banner tab gives you one line to paste into the page. See Showing The Banner On Landing Pages WordPress Does Not Build.

Bars and corner buttons:

• If a countdown bar or notice bar is pinned to the bottom of the screen, the banner steps up above it.
• A banner at the top steps below a sticky header.
• The reopen button steps clear of accessibility buttons, help buttons and chat bubbles in the same corner.

Sister plugin cookies:

When sister plugins such as WP Conversion Tracker are active, their cookies are already in your cookie declaration, each in the right group, so you do not have to work them out by hand.

A real example:

Juniper Lane Pottery runs the ResultsAiX Theme, with its accessibility button in the top bar. The theme's own notice is off, so the Diagnostics row Theme cookie notice reads off, and the only banner visitors see is this one. The Pages that print themselves row reads banner added.

Step by step, checking it all:

1. Open the Diagnostics tab.
2. Read the Theme cookie notice row.
3. Read the WP Consent API row: installed, or not installed (optional).
4. Read the Pages that print themselves row.
5. Open your site in a private window and check that one banner appears.

Tips:

• Plugins that ask WordPress for consent, such as Site Kit, work best with the WP Consent API installed.
• If you build a page in another tool, use the one line from the Banner tab rather than a second cookie plugin.

Next steps:

See Showing The Banner On Landing Pages WordPress Does Not Build, and For Developers: PHP Hooks, The JavaScript Event And Shortcodes.