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Cookie consent banner with cookie scanner & script blocking. Manage cookie consent, cookie notice & cookie policy for GDPR, CCPA & privacy compliance.
WPConsent is a WordPress plugin designed to help you manage cookie consent in compliance with various global privacy regulations, including GDPR and CCPA. It allows you to create a customizable cookie consent banner and automatically blocks third-party cookies until consent is given. The plugin also scans your website for cookies, ensuring you maintain compliance without needing to write any code.
This plugin is suitable for website owners who want to ensure they meet privacy regulations while providing a user-friendly experience for visitors. It is particularly useful for those who prefer a self-hosted solution for managing cookie consent data.
Best for: Website owners looking for a straightforward solution to manage cookie consent and comply with privacy laws.
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WPConsent provides a practical way to handle cookie consent for WordPress sites, especially for those prioritising compliance and customisation without additional costs.
Syed Balkhi's own description of WPConsent, lightly tidied.
WPConsent is the easiest cookie consent banner plugin for WordPress. Add a customizable cookie banner, automatically block third-party cookies and tracking scripts, scan your website for cookies, and comply with GDPR, CCPA / CPRA, ePrivacy, DSGVO, TTDSG, LGPD, POPIA, APA, RGPD, PIPEDA, and other global privacy regulations – all without writing a line of code.
Unlike SaaS cookie consent tools that charge per pageview and store your consent records on their servers, WPConsent is a fully self-hosted cookie consent management plugin (CMP). Every cookie consent record lives in your own WordPress database, so you own your consent data with no monthly cookie consent platform fees and no pageview caps.
WPConsent Pro
This plugin is the Lite version of WPConsent Pro, which comes with smart geolocation cookie banners, automatic translations, IAB TCF v2.3 consent framework, automatic cookie scanning, eCommerce auto-configuration, “Do Not Sell” CCPA addon, and more. Click here to purchase the best premium WordPress cookie consent plugin now!
Your cookie consent banner is often the first thing a visitor sees, so it should look like part of your brand – not a generic cookie notice bolted on. WPConsent gives you a fully customizable cookie consent banner that matches your WordPress site’s design while still meeting GDPR cookie consent and CCPA notice requirements.
Pick from multiple cookie banner layouts and positions (including cookie popup, cookie modal, & consent banner), adjust every color and text string, drop in your logo, and choose button styles that match your theme. WPConsent’s cookie banner is built for performance, so adding cookie compliance won’t slow your WordPress site down or hurt Core Web Vitals.
Inside the preferences panel, visitors can accept or reject cookies by category – essential, statistics, and marketing cookies – with granular cookie control they actually understand. Per-service consent toggles let privacy-conscious visitors approve or block individual tracking services.
The hardest part of real cookie consent compliance isn’t the cookie popup banner, it’s stopping third-party cookies from firing before visitors say yes. A cookie notice that only warns users while Google Analytics and Facebook Pixel still drop cookies underneath is not GDPR compliance, it’s a liability. WPConsent handles true cookie & script blocking automatically.
You don’t need to change how you install your tracking scripts. WPConsent’s automatic script blocking detects the most common third-party cookies and blocks them until the user grants cookie consent, so no tracking cookies are set without consent – as required by GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy regulations.
Automatically detected and blocked scripts include:
WPConsent integrates with Google Consent Mode v2, so your Google Analytics and Google Ads tags keep working in consent-denied mode, and you still get modeled conversions without breaking GDPR cookie consent compliance. Whether you add your tracking using WPCode, MonsterInsights, or Google Tag Manager, WPConsent’s script blocking just works.
You can’t get GDPR cookie consent compliance right if you don’t know what cookies your WordPress site is actually setting. WPConsent includes a full website cookie scanner that crawls your site, detects running services, and builds a complete cookie inventory automatically.
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