About this plugin
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.
1. 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.
2. How it works
Short: External files are downloaded to your WordPress installation (into the uploads-folder) and then served from there.
More details:
The plugin scans every URL that is enqueued via wp_enqueue_script() and wp_enqueue_style(). When detecting an 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
No Output Buffer:
This plugin does not add any “output buffering” but scans the URLs which are enqueued via recommended WordPress functions.
As a result, GDPR Cache Scripts & Styles has practically no performance impact on your response time, no matter how big your website is.
Background worker:
To speed up your website’s 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.
3. Options Page
You’ll find the plugin options page at “Tools > GDPR Cache”. On that page you can refresh and purge your website’s cache.
Here you can also review a full list of all files that are locally cached, and review the expiration date of each file – when a file expires, the plugin downloads a new version of it from the remote server.
Additionally, when you deactivate the plugin, the entire cache is purged (all files are deleted and relevant DB values are reset)
4. Tested with
We’ve tested this plugin with the following themes and plugins:
- Block Editor (embedding Google Fonts via the Customizer’s “Additional CSS”)
- Divi (see “Configuration for Divi” below)
- Elementor
- Jetpack (specially with Performance options like “site accelerator”)
- Fonts Plugin | Google Fonts Typography
- Works on multisite networks
Most other plugins and themes will work with this plugin as well. If you encounter any issues, please let us know, so we can improve this plugin 👍