I’m looking at having our growing wordpress sites ported to EE, but before we do this, can anyone tell me if the CMS is capable of operating in line with the impeding EU cookie law?

There was a post in your support forum here, but I can’t post on that as I haven’t got a license yet.

This is a really important issue that will affect all commercial websites in Europe from May this year - anyone breaking the regulation is at risk of being fined for non-compliance, so this needs an answer.

Cheers,

Oliver,

We are currently studying the issue. I don’t have anything firm that I can tell you about how or when it will addressed. Just that we are aware of the issue and will make an announcement when we have a clear path for addressing it.

If you would like to discuss any specific concerns I am more than available. Just email me at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Great - good enough to know it’s on your radar and your working towards a solution.

Yeah this is something that we all need to address sooner rather than later. I guess like any of these things it’s going to take time and some test cases where people are failing/making it work.

The ICO site itself I think is horrendous. Just makes a site rubbish in my view.

Agreed on the ICO - eurgh! I noticed some public sector sites are just displaying a prominent link that informs users about the cookies they use and ways they can unsubscribe. Still not brilliant though: http://www.ja.net/company/policies/cookies.php <—a link to this page is displayed in the main nav on the home page. I have no idea if this will be considered legal or not?

Then there is this option: http://www.cookielaw.org/

A bit more ellegant, but the annoying repetitive banner isn’t nice - it almost forces people to use cookies which was the whole point of this debacle (no cookies=can’t remember you opted out, because you opted out (ffs!!))