Ask a visitor to confirm their age, for the whole site, for every shop page,\nor only for the products that are actually restricted \u2014 and then do something\nabout the answer.<\/p>\n\n
The purchase is refused, not just covered.<\/strong> An overlay is one\nbrowser-devtools panel away, and Nobody's basket is emptied.<\/strong> Somebody who confirms their age finds their\nshopping exactly where they left it.<\/p>\n\n It works with a page cache, and without JavaScript.<\/strong> The gate is\nserver-rendered as an ordinary form, so it is there before a script has run.\nBecause a confirmation is a fact about one visitor and a cache cannot know it,\nthe markup is identical for everybody and a five-line snippet in the head\nreads the cookie and hides a gate that is already cleared \u2014 rather than\nremoving it after the page has painted, which is why so many age gates flash\non every page for somebody who confirmed weeks ago.<\/p>\n\n Search engines are never gated.<\/strong> A shop that age-gates its crawler\ndisappears from search results within a fortnight, and finds out from its\ntraffic rather than from its plugin.<\/p>\n\n?add-to-cart=123<\/code> never sees it at all, so\nthe order arrives anyway for exactly the product a shop is not allowed to sell\nto whoever placed it. Here a restricted product is not purchasable<\/strong> as far\nas WooCommerce is concerned, adding it is refused with a message the shopper\nreads, and a basket already holding one cannot be paid for. That one filter\ncovers the block cart and checkout and the Store API too.<\/p>\n\nWhat you get<\/h4>\n\n
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The full edition<\/h4>\n\n