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Datareporter WebCare Integration
Datareporter WebCare Integration

Datareporter WebCare Integration

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Setup guide with integration key, banner activation, and shortcode usage.

Setup guide with integration key, banner activation, and shortcode usage.

Datareporter WebCare Integration integrates your Datareporter WebCare cookie consent banner, privacy policy, and legal imprint into WordPress. WebCare is a consent management platform from Austria. You configure your consent banner, privacy policy, and imprint in WebCare, and this plugin delivers them to your WordPress site.

What the Plugin Does

  • Cookie Consent Banner: Adds the WebCare consent banner to your site. The banner collects cookie consent and includes a tag manager that controls tracking scripts based on visitor consent.
  • Privacy Policy: Displays your WebCare privacy policy on any page or post using the [drwc_privacy] shortcode. When you update the privacy policy in WebCare, the changes are reflected on your site automatically.
  • Imprint: Displays your legal imprint using the [drwc_imprint] shortcode. Like the privacy policy, it stays in sync with your WebCare account.
  • Embed Blocker: Blocks third-party embeds (YouTube, Vimeo, Twitter/X, TikTok, Google Maps, Calendly) until visitors give consent. An overlay prompts visitors to allow content per provider, or content unlocks automatically once the WebCare banner reports consent for statistics or marketing. Any other third-party widget is covered by a service you define (found automatically by CSS class, element id or iframe domain) and by the Consent box block or shortcode that editors wrap around content (Feature requires WordPress 6.9 or later).

Key Technical Features

  • Local Caching: Cache banner assets, privacy policy, and imprint content on your server for fewer external requests.
  • Subresource Integrity (SRI): SRI support for the banner script, verifying that the banner loader has not been tampered with.
  • Scheduled Cache Sync: An hourly background sync keeps cached content up to date with your WebCare account.
  • WP Rocket Compatibility: WP Rocket is detected automatically. The WebCare scripts and stylesheets are excluded from its JavaScript and CSS optimizations, and its page cache is purged when the plugin changes your pages.

Shortcodes

  • [drwc_privacy]: Displays your privacy policy.
  • [drwc_imprint]: Displays your imprint.

Both accept an optional lang attribute (ISO code, e.g. lang="de") that selects the language. Without the attribute the page language is used (in cache mode the WordPress locale, which WPML and Polylang switch per page) and a ?lang= URL parameter overrides both; English is the fallback when a language is not available.

If you migrated from the old “Datareporter Webcare” plugin, its shortcodes keep working unchanged and are officially supported: [datareporter type="privacynotice"] renders exactly like [drwc_privacy] and [datareporter type="imprint"] exactly like [drwc_imprint]. Use the drwc_ forms for new pages.

Requirements

This plugin requires an active WebCare license. You can get one at the Datareporter Store. The integration key from your WebCare account is needed during setup.

Documentation & Support

The plugin help page walks through setup, caching, the embed blocker and the expert settings step by step. For WebCare itself visit the WebCare Help Center.

External services

This plugin connects to the Datareporter WebCare CDN (Content Delivery Network), an external service operated by Datareporter GmbH (Austria). The CDN is a network of servers that hosts and delivers the cookie consent banner, privacy policy, and legal imprint content to your WordPress site. Because this content is created and managed in your WebCare dashboard, the plugin must fetch it from the CDN — it cannot be generated locally.

The content served by the CDN (including the cookie banner text, privacy policy, and imprint) is dynamically generated based on the settings you configure in your individual WebCare license via the WebCare dashboard. When you update your settings there, the CDN-served content updates automatically.

What the CDN is used for

The plugin uses the Datareporter WebCare CDN for three purposes:

  1. Cookie consent banner: The banner JavaScript, CSS, and configuration are loaded from the CDN so your consent banner appears on every page.
  2. Privacy policy and imprint: The plugin fetches your privacy policy and legal imprint content from the CDN and displays it on pages where you place the [drwc_privacy] or [drwc_imprint] shortcodes.
  3. Integration key verification: When you enter or save your integration key in the WordPress admin panel, the plugin sends a request to the CDN to verify that the key is valid so your WebCare content is reachable.

CDN domains

The plugin communicates with the following domains. The exact domain used depends on your WebCare configuration:

  • webcachex-eu.datareporter.eu
  • webcachex.datareporter.eu
  • webcache-eu.datareporter.eu
  • webcache.datareporter.eu

For example, a request to load the banner design (stylesheet) would look like this:
https://webcachex-eu.datareporter.eu/c/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/yyyyyyyyyyyyyyy/zzz/banner.css
where xxxx..., yyy..., zzz are parts from your individual integration key.

When data is sent

Your visitors’ browsers make no requests to the CDN until a site administrator has entered an integration key and enabled the banner. Your server contacts the CDN only in the cases listed below.
Once active:

  • CDN mode (default): On every page load, your visitors’ browsers send requests directly to the CDN domains listed above to load the banner script, styles, privacy policy, and imprint content.
  • Hourly background sync: Once an integration key is stored, your WordPress server fetches the banner script, its stylesheet, the privacy policy, the imprint and their language files from the CDN once an hour (WP-Cron) into wp-content/uploads/drwc-cache/, whether or not a cache mode is enabled, so that cache mode can be switched on without delay. The integration key is part of the URL; the request carries WordPress’ default User-Agent header, which includes your site URL.
  • Cache mode (optional): Your WordPress server serves those synced files locally to visitors instead of the CDN.
  • Admin panel: Your server verifies the integration key against the CDN with a single request when you save it, and again at most once every five minutes while an administrator has the plugin’s settings page open. On activation, when the settings of the old “Datareporter Webcare” plugin hold a complete key and this plugin has none yet, one request verifies that key before it is imported.

What data is sent

Each request to the CDN transmits the following data:

  • The IP address of the requesting party (the visitor’s browser in CDN mode; your server for the hourly sync, the key checks and cache mode).
  • Standard HTTP headers: User-Agent, Referer, and Accept-Language.
  • Integration key components (client ID, organization ID, and website ID) included in the request URL.

Service provider

This service is provided by Datareporter GmbH (Austria): privacy policy.

About Datareporter

Datareporter GmbH is an Austrian company specializing in privacy and consent management. Their WebCare platform helps website operators meet GDPR requirements with automatically updated consent banners, privacy policies, and legal imprint management.
More info about us can be found at datareporter.eu/company/info.