UX Design Experts

<p>Cookie Guard is a comprehensive GDPR compliance plugin that helps you manage cookie consent on your WordPress website. With smart script blocking, customizable banners, and detailed consent logging, Cookie Guard ensures your website meets GDPR, CCPA, and ePrivacy requirements.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Customizable Cookie Banner</strong> – Fully customizable text, colors, and positioning</li>
<li><strong>Smart Script Blocking</strong> – Three-tier system ensures compatibility with page builders</li>
<li><strong>Four Cookie Categories</strong> – Necessary, Functional, Analytics, and Marketing</li>
<li><strong>Sticky Cookie Icon</strong> – Users can change preferences anytime via bottom-left icon</li>
<li><strong>Consent Logging</strong> – Secure database logging with CSV export</li>
<li><strong>Page Builder Compatible</strong> – Works with Elementor, Divi, WPBakery, Beaver Builder, and more</li>
<li><strong>GDPR Compliant</strong> – Helps meet EU GDPR and ePrivacy requirements</li>
<li><strong>Shortcode Support</strong> – Display cookie settings button anywhere</li>
</ul>
<h4>How It Works</h4>
<p>Cookie Guard uses an intelligent three-tier script blocking system:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Whitelist Check</strong> – Essential scripts (WordPress core, page builders, forms) are never blocked</li>
<li><strong>Pattern Detection</strong> – Automatically detects and blocks known tracking scripts (Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, etc.)</li>
<li><strong>Custom Scripts</strong> – Add your own patterns via the admin panel</li>
</ol>
<h4>Cookie Categories</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Strictly Necessary</strong> – Always enabled, essential for website functionality</li>
<li><strong>Functional</strong> – Optional, enables enhanced features like videos and live chat</li>
<li><strong>Performance/Analytics</strong> – Optional, helps measure and improve site performance</li>
<li><strong>Marketing/Targeting</strong> – Optional, used for advertising and remarketing</li>
</ul>
<h4>Sticky Cookie Icon</h4>
<p>After users accept or reject cookies, a customizable cookie icon appears in the bottom-left corner. Users can click it anytime to review and change their cookie preferences.</p>
<h4>Page Builder Compatibility</h4>
<p>Fully tested and compatible with:</p>
<ul>
<li>Elementor & Elementor Pro</li>
<li>Divi & Divi Builder</li>
<li>WPBakery Page Builder</li>
<li>Beaver Builder</li>
<li>Oxygen Builder</li>
<li>Bricks Builder</li>
<li>Gutenberg (WordPress Block Editor)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Privacy & Data Storage</h4>
<ul>
<li>Consent data stored securely in WordPress database</li>
<li>Records: User ID (if logged in), IP address, timestamp, consent status, and preferences</li>
<li>View and export logs from admin panel</li>
<li>Full GDPR compliance for data handling</li>
</ul>
<h3>Additional Information</h3>
<h4>Support</h4>
<p>For support, visit https://uxdesignexperts.com/support</p>
<h4>Documentation</h4>
<p>Full documentation available at https://uxdesignexperts.com/cookie-guard-docs</p>
<h4>Author</h4>
<p>Developed by UX Design Experts<br />
https://uxdesignexperts.com</p>
<p>Cookie Guard is a tool to help with GDPR compliance. You are responsible for ensuring your website’s overall GDPR compliance, including having a proper privacy policy and terms of service.</p>


Cookie Guard

Complete GDPR and cookie compliance solution with customizable consent banner, smart script blocking, and consent logging.

Nikel

<p>A free and beautiful way to get a Cookie Banner without loading any external resources from 3rd parties. Customize it to match your compliance requirements and website layout. This Banner is super responsive and highly customizable. You want to make sure your banner always works? See here: <a href="https://beautiful-cookie-banner.com/articles/cookie-banner-test-monitor/" rel="nofollow ugc">banner-test</a>. With paid add-on you get Google Consent Mode v2 support.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>fully customizable texts, colors, fonts and position of the banner and buttons.</li>
<li>support WP Consent API and other consent APIs.</li>
<li>Google Tag Manager dataLayer pushes</li>
<li>choose between different compliance types: Just Inform, Opt-in, Opt-out, Differentiated. Cookies will not be stored by default. With differentiated you can define cookie groups, and for each group a user can give a consent.</li>
<li>show the Banner until user accepts all cookies.</li>
<li>prevent user setting cookie from automatic deletion by many browsers (e.g. ITP => 2.1).</li>
<li>no resources loaded from third parties: <strong>everything is hosted on your domain</strong>.</li>
<li>developer friendly: filter hook to change cookie message: nsc_bar_cookie_bar_message</li>
</ul>
<h4>Additional Features with paid add-on</h4>
<ul>
<li>Google Consent Mode v2, including new ad_personalization and ad_user_data, see here: <a href="https://beautiful-cookie-banner.com/documentation/cookie-consent-premium-add-on-documentation/google-consent-mode-v2-implementation-example/" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Consent Mode v2 for WordPress</a></li>
<li>Microsoft UET consent mode support. <a href="https://beautiful-cookie-banner.com/documentation/cookie-consent-premium-add-on-documentation/microsoft-uet-consent-mode-for-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">Microsoft UET consent mode for WordPress</a></li>
<li>Microsoft Clarity Consent API support. <a href="https://beautiful-cookie-banner.com/documentation/cookie-consent-premium-add-on-documentation/microsoft-clarity-consent-api-support-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">Microsoft Clarity API support for WordPress</a></li>
<li>Auto block scripts and requests</li>
<li>Multilanguage support</li>
<li>Full Google Tag Manager integration: load GTM through this plugin.</li>
<li>API for Settings</li>
<li>Consent statistics and logs</li>
</ul>
<p>See the list of all features and get the add-on: <a href="https://beautiful-cookie-banner.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">beautiful-cookie-banner.com</a></p>
<h4>These cookies are set by this plugin</h4>
<p>See the list cookies and localStorage used: <a href="https://beautiful-cookie-banner.com/documentation/cookies-used-by-cookie-banner-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Cookies used by Cookie Banner</a></p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ol>
<li>Fully responsive.</li>
<li>Make consent cookie a backend cookie to prevent automatic deletion which many browsers do for javascript/frontend cookies.</li>
<li>reload after acceptance</li>
<li>Works with liteSpeed and other caching plugin.</li>
<li>Easily export your settings to another installation: just copy and paste the json string.</li>
<li>Show banner until user accepts cookies</li>
<li>Google Tag Manager supported: Push consent to dataLayer for easy configuration</li>
<li>Users can easily change cookie settings: choose between an extra tab or with a shortcode.</li>
<li>Fully customizable colors and text.</li>
<li>It is for all kind of compliance: opt-out, opt-in, info only, differentiated</li>
<li>choose between different themes</li>
<li>choose the position on your website</li>
<li>choose cookie name, duration, domain.</li>
<li>cookie setting management via shortcode: [cc_show_cookie_banner_nsc_bar]</li>
<li>preview banner in backend.</li>
<li>auto dismiss<br />
… and there are a lot more.</li>
</ol>
<p>See the full list of all features: <a href="https://beautiful-cookie-banner.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">beautiful-cookie-banner.com</a></p>
<p>The plugin helps you preparing your website for a lot cookie laws and regulations, for example:</p>
<ul>
<li>GDPR: The General Data Protection Regulation (European Union)</li>
<li>CCPA: The California Consumer Privacy Act (California, United States)</li>
<li>PIPEDA: The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (Canada)</li>
<li>LGPD: The Brazilian General Data Protection Law (Brazil)</li>
<li>OAIC: Australia’s Privacy Principles (Australia)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Credits</h4>
<p>This really beautiful plugin wraps the solution provided by osano (https://www.osano.com/cookieconsent/download/) into a wordpress plugin.<br />
This Version uses 3.1.0 from osano as basis, but it has a lot modifications to the original source code. It is optimized for performance and for a low database impact.</p>
<h4>NOTE: Using this plugin alone does not make your site automatically compliant. As each website and country is different you must make sure you have the right configurations in place. Google tag manager can help you with that for free.</h4>


Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner


Months ago it was working fine. Just showing banner with some info but now after updates it is not even showing the banner and settings were reset.  Don't install this, just code your own banner - that's better solution.


Not worth your time, not even working.

Free and beautiful Cookie Consent Banner to make your website compliant. Highly customizable and not loading any files from 3rd party servers.

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