GDPRess | Eliminate external requests to increase GDPR compliance

GDPRess can be downloaded for free without any paid subscription from the official WordPress repository. In January 2022 a German court ruled that a website owner was in breach of GDPR and should pay a € 100,- fine, because embedded Google Fonts were used, essentially transferring the user's personal data (IP address) without the user's prior consent. What's embedding? When an external (i.e., loaded from another server, besides your own) resource is embedded into a webpage, it basically means that the resource behaves as if it's loaded from the same server hosting the webpage. Why is using embedded resources in breach of GDPR? Because of the way the internet works. When a browser (i.e., computer) requests a file (e.g., an image or a font file), the server needs the IP address of that computer to send it back. All these requests (including the IP address) are logged in a so-called access.log. Once this IP address leaves the European Union, your website is violating the GDPR. What does this plugin do? GDPRess scans your homepage for third party scripts (JS) and stylesheets (CSS), and:

• Allows you to download or exclude them from downloading.
• Parses the stylesheets for loaded font files, downloads them, and rewrites the stylesheet to use the local copies.
• Makes sure the local copies of each script/stylesheet are used in your site's frontend.

In short, it makes sure no requests are made to external/embedded/3rd party scripts and stylesheets.

1.3.0 | The "He is risen!" Release

• Added: Admin bar menu with "Scan this page" option to trigger a scan on the current page.
• Added: An exclusion list — known resources that break when locally hosted (e.g., Google Analytics, Stripe.js, Usercentrics) are now automatically excluded, with a tooltip explaining why.
• Added: Google Fonts and Web Font Loader requests are highlighted with a suggestion to use OMGF (Pro) for more advanced optimization.
• Added: Web Font Loader (webfont.js) is now detected and downloaded locally.
• Improved: "Re-scan" button replaces "Scan again" — clears the cache and rescans in one click.
• Improved: Settings page restyled to match the look and feel of other Daan.dev plugins.
• Improved: "Save Changes & Download" renamed to "Process Changes" — also deletes locally hosted files for excluded resources.
• Fixed: Protocol-relative URLs (//) are now correctly detected as external resources.
• Fixed: Non-external URI schemes (data:, blob:, javascript:) are no longer mistakenly processed.
• Fixed: CSS paths are now correctly rewritten after a stylesheet is downloaded.
• Fixed: Test Mode can now always be toggled.
• Tested up to WordPress 6.9.

1.2.3

• Fixed: call to undefined function download_url().

1.2.2

• Fixed: GDPRess now runs before OMGF/CAOS, so e.g., OMGF Pro can optimize previously externally hosted stylesheets.

1.2.1

• Fixed: Protocol (//) and Root (/) relative URLs shouldn't be interpreted as external URLs.
• Fixed: Let CAOS/OMGF handle their files, if these plugins are active.

1.2.0

• Added: Run a quick scan on each page to see if new external (third party) requests are present on that page!
• Added: Test Mode (enabled by Default) to allow users to first test the optimizations before releasing them to the public.
• Fixed: Don't use WP_Filesystem to get and put file contents.

1.1.0

• Added: Google Fonts support
• When many Font Families or Font Styles are detected, GDPR Press will suggest to use OMGF to optimize the request before downloading it.
• Fixed several bugs, notices, and warnings.

1.0.2

• Added: tooltip next to a success message.
• Fixed: tooltip-icon line height.

1.0.1

• Fixed: Conflicts with some caching/optimization plugins:
• Autoptimize
• WP Rocket
• W3 Total Cache
• WP Optimize
• Fixed: several warnings and notices.

1.0

• First release!