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Privacy Policy Plugin for Wordpress

March 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Current

Last month, Google started requiring AdSense publishers to display a privacy policy on all sites that displayed AdSense ads or search boxes. Since many WordPress blogs are monetized with AdSense, I found a plugin that would automate the creation of an AdSense-compliant privacy policy for WordPress users.
Requirements are a self-hosted WordPress blog, version 2.0 or higher.(Not wordpress.com or blogger blogs) You don’t actually need to be displaying AdSense ads, but the privacy policy is generic enough to be used with most sites.
Installation is pretty simple, as are most WordPress plugins. Download the privacy-policy-1.0.zip file and extract its contents into your blog’s wp-content/plugins folder. This will create a new privacy-policy subfolder containing the plugin. (The plugin doesn’t actually need to be in its own subfolder, but it’s recommended you place it there.) Go to the Plugins tab in your WordPress administration console and activate the plugin.

Once the plugin has been activated, go to the Options tag and click on Privacy Policy. Defaults will be selected for the privacy policy, but you can change them as you see fit, and press the Update Options button to store the new settings. Now create the privacy policy page for your site. The easiest way to do this is to press the Create Page button at the bottom of Manage–>Page section of the dashboard. This creates a static page with the given title and slug (path) that displays a privacy policy based on your current settings.

Many thanks to Eric Giguere at http://www.synclastic.com for this excellent plugin!

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