Cookie Confirm
Cookie Confirm allows you to easily insert a customisable notification for your users to choose and save their cookie preferences.
The facts
- Rating
- 3.5★ from 2
- Active installs
- 100+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 12 Nov 2012
- Added
- Jun 2012
- Requires WP
- 3.3.2
- Tested up to
- WP 3.3.2
- Downloads
- 20,848
Our analysis
AI-assistedCookie Confirm is a WordPress plugin that helps you manage cookie consent on your website. It displays a notification banner to visitors, asking for their consent to use cookies and allowing them to choose which types they accept. The plugin remembers users' preferences for future visits, which can also apply to other sites using the same plugin.
This plugin is suitable for website owners who need to comply with cookie consent regulations and want to provide a clear choice to their visitors regarding cookie usage.
Best for: Website owners looking to comply with cookie consent regulations.
What it does well
- ✓Customisable notification position and style
- ✓Allows users to consent or deny specific types of cookies
- ✓Remembers user preferences for future visits
- ✓Supports both explicit and implicit consent options
Where it falls short
- •Last updated in November 2012, may not be fully compatible with newer WordPress versions
- •Limited features compared to more modern plugins
Verdict
Cookie Confirm provides basic cookie consent functionality but may lack some modern features and updates. It is suitable for those needing a straightforward solution for cookie management.
From the developer
Andy Charrington's own description of Cookie Confirm, lightly tidied.
By providing an unintrusive notification in a customisable location Cookie Confirm allows you to give your users the choice to accept cookies on your WordPress site.
When a visitor browses to a website with the Cookie Confirm plugin installed for the first time, they are shown a banner asking for their consent to cookies. The banner explains which cookies the website intends to set, and gives the visitor the option to consent or to deny each type of cookie. As well as being able to consent to cookies for the website they visited, the banner allows the visitor to consent to cookies for all websites which use the Cookie Confirm plugin.
If the visitor chooses to set preferences for all sites, we set third party cookies on our domain (cookieconsent.silktide.com) to remembers their choices. This cookies are completely anonymous, non-trackable, and are only used to remember the visitors preferences.
Each time a visitor browses to a website with the Cookie Confirm plugin installed, the plugin checks to see if they have set preferences for all sites. If so, it doesn’t need to show the banner and the website already knows which sorts of cookies it is allowed to set.
Current features include-
- Customise position and style of notification
- Specify which type of cookie your site uses and customise the descriptions of these
- Choose from Explicit or Implicit consent
- Allow users to save their choice for all websites using the Cookie Consent software
Coming soon-
- Ability to customise all text strings
- Add your own cookie definitions
- Add proper support for SSL