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Curated resource guide

WordPress Privacy and Data Protection

Translate privacy obligations into concrete WordPress engineering decisions without treating a plugin as a complete compliance strategy. These references cover data mapping, cookies, consent, analytics, forms, logs, retention, exports and erasure, WooCommerce, telemetry, third parties, backups, staging data, minimization, documentation, and secure handling.

Scope

What this guide covers

  • WordPress privacy tools
  • personal-data exporters and erasers
  • privacy-policy helpers
  • data mapping
  • user and customer data
  • plugin/theme privacy integration
  • cookies and local storage
  • analytics
  • forms
  • logs
  • IP addresses
  • retention
  • consent architecture
  • third-party APIs
  • email
  • backups
  • data deletion
  • access requests
  • WooCommerce data
  • telemetry
  • external processors
  • security of personal data
  • staging copies
  • minimization
  • documentation
  • and engineering patterns that support legal/privacy obligations without providing jurisdiction-specific legal advice

Selected references

Curated resources

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    Recommended starting point

    WordPress Plugin Privacy Handbook

    The official starting point for privacy-aware plugin design, disclosures, exports, erasure, and site-owner controls.

    developer.wordpress.org
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    Adding a Personal Data Exporter

    Connect plugin-held personal data to the WordPress export workflow in manageable, resumable batches.

    developer.wordpress.org
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    Adding a Personal Data Eraser

    Implement erasure or anonymization callbacks while reporting retained data and incomplete work clearly.

    developer.wordpress.org
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    Privacy Options, Hooks, and Capabilities

    Use the platform hooks and permissions around privacy pages, requests, confirmations, exports, and erasure.

    developer.wordpress.org
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    Suggesting Privacy Policy Text

    Provide site owners with specific disclosure text when a plugin collects, sends, or retains personal data.

    developer.wordpress.org
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    MDN HTTP Cookies Guide

    A precise browser-level reference for cookie scope, lifetime, security attributes, and privacy implications.

    developer.mozilla.org
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    NIST Privacy Framework

    A risk-based framework for identifying, governing, controlling, communicating, and protecting privacy across a product.

    nist.gov