IA Salt Regeneration Reviews, Downloads & Maintenance

This plugin is an addon to the Independent Analytics plugin (hereafter referred to as IA). Please install and activate IA first before using this plugin!

IA is a wonderful solution for GDPR compliant visitor tracking. However, some data protection authorities in the EU consider it necessary to “forget” visitors to a website as soon as possible.

This is where our solution comes into play. Our addon ensures that IA generates a new Visitor Token Salt every day at midnight. This is used by IA to calculate a unique key for each visitor.

Without our solution, IA will continue to recognize a returning visitor until something significant changes (such as the IP address). With IA Salt Regeneration, this no longer happens and you can truly use IA in a 100% GDPR compliant way.

Installation

The easiest way to install IA Salt Regeneration is by visiting your Plugins > Add New menu. Search for “IA Salt Regeneration” and install the first result you see there.

To install with the zip file downloaded from this page:

Login to your WordPress dashboard
Visit the Plugins > Add New menu
Click the Upload Plugin button at the top
In the upload form that appears, click the Choose file button and select the ia-salt-regeneration.zip file you downloaded here
Click the Install Now button
Once the page reloads, click the blue Activate link
Done.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need to include a cookie consent when I install this plugin?

No. But you should already have included a notice about the use of Independent Analytics in your privacy policy. You do not need to explicitly mention IA Salt Regeneration. A reference to the fact that the Visitor Token Salt is regenerated daily and what (positive) effects this has on the visitor data is recommended.

Can I set when and how often the Visitor Token Salt should be regenerated?

No, at the moment there is no possibility for that. But if there is an increased demand for it, we will consider this in a future version.

How do I know that a new Visitor Token Salt has actually been generated?

At the moment we have not implemented a convenient function for this yet. But you can do the following:

Call /wp-admin/options.php.
Search for iawp_salt.
Save the value from the input field.
Wait a day or at least until midnight.
Repeat step 1-3 and compare the two values.

Do the two values differ? Great, then everything worked!

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Screenshots

Hook to update the visitor token salt in the Action Scheduler (Tools -> Scheduled Actions).

Changelog

1.0.2 & 1.0.3

Fixed: Salt regeneration does not work with the Pro version.

1.0.1

Fixed: Action Scheduler does not load.
Tested up to WordPress version 6.4.1

1.0.0

Initial release.

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