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  1. Data Privacy & Compliance 7 min read

    Branded maps for WordPress: better, cheaper, and without the consent banner.

    Google Maps is the default map embed on the web. It’s also the wrong default for most marketing sites, on three separate axes at once:...

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  2. Data Privacy & Compliance 9 min read

    GDPR, CCPA, and the consent banner WordPress sites don’t actually need.

    The consent banner is now near-universal on WordPress sites, especially in markets exposed to GDPR or CCPA. The shared assumption is that the banner is...

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  3. Data Privacy & Compliance 7 min read

    Reporting Google Ads ROI without third-party cookies.

    Removing Google Analytics from a WordPress site (and the consent banner that came with it) raises an immediate question from the marketing team: how do...

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  4. Data Privacy & Compliance 6 min read

    Self-hosted WordPress analytics: the consent banner you can finally remove.

    Google Analytics is the cookie that’s hardest to defend on a WordPress consent banner. It’s also the easiest to replace — and replacing it gives...

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  5. Data Privacy & Compliance 6 min read

    Hosting WordPress video without YouTube’s cookies.

    A YouTube embed loads Google's tracking on every visitor, regardless of whether they play the video. Self-hosting or using click-to-load removes the cookies without sacrificing the video. Here are the three approaches that actually work.

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  6. Data Privacy & Compliance 7 min read

    WordPress and the ‘Do Not Sell’ architecture: GPC, CMPs, and the GTM Data Layer.

    WordPress sites in markets exposed to GDPR have spent the last several years figuring out how to remove third-party trackers entirely, because the EU model...

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  7. Multilingual 9 min read

    The four decisions that determine whether a multilingual WordPress site compounds or stays a footnote.

    Multilingual WordPress sits in a tooling category that’s been settled for years: Weglot, WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress, MultilingualPress, and a handful of smaller players. Weglot is...

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  8. Multilingual 8 min read

    Going multilingual: the SEO upside most US WordPress sites ignore.

    The default assumption on most US WordPress sites is that the audience is English-only. The default isn’t wrong—most visitors to most American sites are English...

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  9. Data Privacy & Compliance 8 min read

    Server-side ad attribution for multi-location and franchise WordPress sites.

    The scenario is industry-standard for multi-location service businesses: pet services, dental practices, fitness studios, healthcare networks, real estate brokerages. The corporate website is a single...

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  10. Data Privacy & Compliance 6 min read

    Right-to-erasure flows in WordPress: building it before someone asks.

    Right-to-erasure (the GDPR phrasing) or right-to-delete (the CCPA phrasing) gives users the legal ability to request that a site remove their personal data. The site...

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  11. Data Privacy & Compliance 6 min read

    Server-side Google Reviews for WordPress: the cookie-free pattern.

    A Google Reviews widget on a WordPress page works by loading Google’s widget JavaScript, which renders the star rating and review carousel inside an iframe...

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  12. Data Privacy & Compliance 7 min read

    Server-side social embeds for WordPress: the cookie-free pattern.

    Every Instagram embed loads Meta's tracking infrastructure on the visitor's browser. The standard embed is a privacy liability. The server-side alternative renders the same content as static HTML without any of the cookies.

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  13. Security Hardening 8 min read

    WordPress form spam protection: honeypot, CAPTCHA, Akismet — what to use when.

    Spam against WordPress forms is so common it counts as ambient noise. The bots are automated, persistent, and uninterested in any specific site. They crawl...

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  14. Data Privacy & Compliance 6 min read

    Self-hosted Google Fonts: the WordPress privacy upgrade you can ship in an afternoon.

    Open the network inspector on any WordPress site that hasn’t done this work, and you’ll see one or more requests to fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com in...

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