WordPress Smorgasbord

On the surface, GDPR might seem like a burdensome regulation that is causing millions of website owners to jump through a ton of new hoops in order to avoid hefty fines. However, if viewed from the customer’s perspective, the spirit of the GDPR legislation seeks to put the customer first, by placing them in control of the data they share with you.

It may come as a surprise to some business owners, but customer’s sharing their data with you, whether to leave a blog comment or purchase an item in your WooCommerce store, is a privilege, and one that you should not take for granted, let alone abuse.

At it’s core, that is the spirit of GDPR, and if you’re a business owner who seeks to profit from abusing your customer’s trust, then perhaps you shouldn’t be in business in the first place.

This lesson demonstrates how to add a checkbox to your WordPress comments section, in order to get explicit consent from your site visitors for storing their information for future comments. Ideally, this should be a relatively smooth process, however, if your theme is not updated to be GDPR compliant, or if your theme is overwriting the standard WordPress comment form, you can run into problems. This lesson shows you how to update, but also demonstrates three work arounds should you run into problems with your theme.