Placeholder instead of video or map

The Consent plugin's Script Blocking neutralizes scripts and stylesheets; it does not take apart embedded frames such as YouTube, Google Maps or Spotify. There is a separate switch for that. When it is active, a frame without consent is replaced by a placeholder before delivery — which is exactly why the page suddenly looks different after you flip it.

Where the switch sits

1. Open the “Kakapo Consent” entry in the WordPress menu.
2. On the left, switch to the “Resources” (in German: „Ressourcen“) item in the “Rules” group.
3. Look for the “External embeds (iframes)” card with the “Block embeds” switch.
4. With the block switched on, the fields “Heading”, “Notice text”, “Button label” and “Placeholder background” appear below it.
5. The table at the end of the card lists every pattern with provider, category and origin — “bundled” or “custom rule”.

What gets replaced and what stays

• Bundled patterns include ones for YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Twitch, Google Maps, OpenStreetMap, Spotify, SoundCloud, Typeform, Calendly, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok
• The comparison is made against the full src address of the frame, so paths are permitted
• Invisible counting frames are left untouched: height or width 0, display:none, visibility:hidden or aria-hidden="true"
• A blocked frame is not delivered in the first place — its original markup travels along encoded inside the placeholder and is put back unchanged on click

Texts and custom rules

In “Heading” and “Notice text”, %s stands for the name of the provider and is replaced literally. The defaults are the heading “External content from %s” and the button “Load content”. Frames that match no bundled pattern go into the “Custom embed rules” field — one rule per line in the format pattern, vertical bar, category.

widget.example.com | marketing

The permitted categories are notwendig, funktional, statistik, marketing, medien and sonstige. The bundled patterns sit in “medien”, or in “marketing” for social networks — which category a visitor has to release for the frame to appear is shown in the table.

No placeholder to be seen

• The visitor has already consented to the associated category — then nothing is replaced
• Under “General” (in German: „Allgemein“), “CMP enabled” is off; then nothing is output and nothing is blocked in the frontend
• Under “General” (in German: „Allgemein“), “Preview mode” is on; the Consent interface then only takes effect for signed-in administrators
• The address of the frame does not match any of the patterns — then a custom rule is needed