Pressidium Cookie Consent Plugin

Pressidium Cookie Consent makes it easy to add a stylish, customizable cookie consent banner to your website and conditionally load third-party scripts (analytics, performance, targeting, etc.) based on the user-selected preferences to help you comply with EU GDPR cookie law, CCPA, and similar regulations.

⚙️ Fully customizable

Easily modify the cookie consent banner and settings modal text. Pick one of the built-in color presets to match your website’s aesthetic, or adjust the color of individual components via our convenient color picker. Choose from a variety of layouts, positions, and transitions directly from the WordPress dashboard.

🪶 Lightweight

The plugin is built on top of the Cookie Consent JS library by Orest Bida, a standalone vanilla JavaScript library with no third-party dependencies, that loads blazingly fast and won’t slow down your website.

♿ Accessible

An a11y friendly plugin — fully accessible and WAI-ARIA compliant.

🌐 Translatable

Modify any text in the cookie consent banner and settings modal, and provide translations. Choose the language auto-detection strategy you prefer — either read the user’s browser language or read the markup of the current page to identify its primary language.

📱 Responsive

Fully responsive and mobile-friendly cookie consent banner and settings modal.

🙅 Block scripts

Control which scripts are loaded based on the user’s preferences. List the URLs of the scripts you’d like to block (both exact matches and regular expressions are supported) and prevent them from running until the user has given consent.

🧹 Auto-clear cookies

Automatically delete cookies when a user opts-out of a specific category inside cookie settings.

✋ Force consent

Block the user from interacting with the page until they consent to your cookie policy.

🔁 Re-consent

Ask users to consent again when you update your cookie policy.

📝 Consent records

Record user consents to be able to provide proof of consent for auditing purposes.

🤖 Hide from bots

Automatically parse the user agent to detect bots, crawlers, and webdrivers. If one is detected, you have the option to hide the cookie consent banner from them.

🧩 Google Consent Mode (GCM) integration

Integrate with Google Consent Mode (GCM) to adjust how Google tags behave based on the user’s consent preferences. Supports both Google tag (gtag.js) and Google Tag Manager (GTM) implementations.

⌨️ Control it programmatically

Programmatically control the plugin. Conditionally show/hide the cookie consent banner and/or the settings modal, accept one (or more) cookie categories, erase cookies, load previously blocked scripts, etc.

Automatic installation

Automatic installation is the easiest option — WordPress will handle the file transfer, and you won’t need to leave your web browser.

1. Log in to your WordPress dashboard
2. Navigate to the “Plugins” menu
3. Search for “Pressidium Cookie Consent”
4. Click “Install Now” and WordPress will take it from there
5. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu on WordPress

Manual installation

1. Upload the entire pressidium-cookie-consent folder to the wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu on WordPress

After activation

1. Go to the plugin settings page (Settings -> Cookie Consent)
2. Customize the cookie consent to your liking
3. Click “Save” to save your changes

1. 

   General settings

2. 

   Themes and colors

3. 

   Cookie tables

4. 

   Translations

5. 

   Consent modal

6. 

   Settings modal

7. 

   Blocked scripts

8. 

   Consent records

1.4.0: Mar 21, 2023

• Introduce a new “Preferences” cookies category
• Integrate with Google Consent Mode (GCM)
• Dispatch custom JavaScript events on initial consent and when the user changes their consent

1.3.0: Nov 30, 2023

• Fix an issue where an empty source for a blocked script would cause some scripts to not be loaded
• Remove debugging logs from the console
• Add options to set a different color for the text when a button is hovered

1.2.2: Nov 29, 2023

• Wrap Composer dependencies in our own namespace to prevent conflicts with other plugins loading the same dependencies in different versions

1.2.1: Nov 6, 2023

• Check if the table already exists in the database before attempting to create it

1.2.0: Oct 2, 2023

• Add a new Consent Records tab to the settings page to be able to provide proof of consent for auditing purposes

1.1.6: Aug 23, 2023

• Fix an issue where languages with a hyphen in their code were not being detected correctly

1.1.5: Aug 22, 2023

• Improve multilingual support

1.1.4: Aug 21, 2023

• Fix an issue where the confirmation before leaving the tab was being triggered even when there were no unsaved changes

1.1.3: Aug 4, 2023

• Fix an issue where the “Cookie table headers” setting was not being saved correctly

1.1.2: Jul 27, 2023

• Add the ability to list necessary cookies
• Fix emoji decoding to render correctly in text fields and textareas

1.1.1: Jul 25, 2023

• Fix an issue where the log file could not be created

1.1.0: Jul 25, 2023

• Add the ability to export, import, and reset settings
• Add POT file for localization
• Ask for feedback on plugin deactivation
• Support emoji even on databases using the utf8 character set
• Improve logging
• Add a new Logs tab to the settings page to help with debugging

1.0.4: Jul 2, 2023

• Fix a conflict with plugins that use null as their admin footer text

1.0.3: Jun 30, 2023

• Only load blocking script when needed

1.0.2: Jun 27, 2023

• Fix an issue where the text of the secondary button could not be updated

1.0.1: Jun 19, 2023

• Update Plugin Directory icons

1.0.0: May 26, 2023

• Initial version