Aslam Hasib

Zenaul Islam

DevItems

Madhusudan

<p>CookieRay is a cookie consent and privacy tooling plugin for WordPress. It stores data on your hosting account and runs in your environment. There is no external SaaS dashboard for site operation.</p>
<p>CookieRay helps website owners manage cookie consent settings for GDPR, CCPA, ePrivacy, and other privacy-related requirements. Legal compliance depends on your website setup, third-party tools, region, and how the plugin is configured.</p>
<p>CookieRay provides a visitor-facing consent experience, configurable script blocking, cookie discovery from your site, detailed consent records, and a setup dashboard to help you manage cookie consent records and support privacy-related workflows.</p>
<h4>Cookie consent banner</h4>
<p>A customizable consent surface with card and bar layouts, live preview in the admin, and nine placement positions. Visitors can Accept All, Decline All, or open a Preferences modal to choose which categories to allow (Necessary, Analytical, Functional, and Marketing). Banner text, colors, buttons, and fonts are editable without writing code.</p>
<h4>Script blocking</h4>
<p>Choose Log Only recording or Strict blocking in Settings. In Strict mode, CookieRay delays known tracking scripts until the visitor agrees to categories that match those trackers. Common patterns for services such as Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, Hotjar, HubSpot, TikTok Pixel, and many others are included out of the box.</p>
<h4>Google Consent Mode v2</h4>
<p>When enabled, CookieRay outputs consent state in the visitor’s browser for Google tags (such as GA4, Google Ads, or Google Tag Manager) that <strong>you have already placed on your site</strong>. Google Consent Mode v2 lets Google tags adjust their behavior based on visitor consent choices while supporting privacy-conscious measurement modes when consent is withheld.</p>
<p>CookieRay itself does not open separate server-side uploads of visitor payloads to Google; instead it surfaces JavaScript so tags you load can read consent signaling. Behavior of those downstream tags depends on how you configured Google products.</p>
<p>Further reading: Google’s Consent Mode documentation (linked under External Services).</p>
<h4>Cookie scanner</h4>
<p>Run a cookie scan from the WordPress admin to detect cookies surfaced on responses from your own site.</p>
<p>When an administrator starts a scan, CookieRay queues work on your server and uses the WordPress HTTP API to request public URLs belonging to <strong>your site domain</strong> (for example the homepage, published content URLs, WooCommerce storefront pages where applicable, and related routes depending on plugins). Cookie names surfaced in responses can be merged with your inventory for categorization alongside the plugin’s bundled tracking-cookie reference data.</p>
<p>CookieRay also runs deeper script-discovery passes that analyze HTML fetched from a bounded set of URLs (the embeddable deep scan inspects up to 50 URLs on the same domain, chosen from the XML sitemap when available or from the home page plus recent posts and pages). Scan coverage still depends on plugins, caches, authenticated-only flows, and what responses your site serves to CookieRay’s unauthenticated crawler.</p>
<p>There is <strong>no recurring unattended scan timetable built into CookieRay</strong>. You start scans from CookieRay screens (background processing completes those runs without another manual click).</p>
<h4>Cookie inventory</h4>
<p>View, edit, and categorize cookies discovered on your site. Assign cookies to Necessary, Analytical, Functional, or Marketing categories. Bulk-categorize or delete entries. Custom cookies can be added manually, with regex pattern support where appropriate.</p>
<h4>Consent logs</h4>
<p>Consent events can be logged with identifiers, statuses, granted categories, page URL, banner version, and timestamp fields available for review. Entries are searchable and filterable in the admin. You can export records as CSV, and export individual receipts as PDF for your record-keeping process.</p>
<h4>Dashboard</h4>
<p>See a summarized score guided by configurable checks (blocking mode, categorized cookies, policy link usage, consent expiry and scan recency reminders, whether Google Consent Mode output is enabled, and related items). Use it as onboarding guidance alongside your legal or compliance review.</p>
<h4>Scan history</h4>
<p>Review past scans: timing, URLs covered, counts, and summaries of results to track changes over time.</p>
<h4>Settings</h4>
<p>Configure consent behavior (Log Only vs Strict blocking), consent expiry, consent log retention, Google Consent Mode v2 toggle, optional data portability export flows, and related options. Banner and behavior settings are stored through WordPress options alongside plugin metadata.</p>
<h4>Privacy and data handling</h4>
<p>CookieRay does not send usage data, telemetry, or visitor payloads to CookieRay-operated servers. Consent logs and inventories stay in your site’s database unless you export them elsewhere.</p>
<p>Third-party trackers you integrate yourself (such as Google Analytics, Google Ads, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel, marketing pixels, embedded chat widgets, and similar vendors) may still collect information according to their own tags, configurations, vendor accounts, regions, and published policies, even when CookieRay delays or respects categories for scripts it recognizes.</p>
<p>A WordPress Cron task deletes consent records older than the retention period configured in Settings, whenever WordPress Cron runs normally on your host.</p>
<h3>Pro Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Scheduled automatic cookie scans</li>
<li>Geo targeting – show or hide the banner by country</li>
<li>Integration with Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel, Adobe Experience Platform</li>
<li>Trust Badge – “Privacy Protected” badge displayed in the site footer</li>
<li>Premium support and priority updates</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://wp.cookieray.com/#pricing" rel="nofollow ugc">Upgrade to CookieRay Pro</a></p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>For questions, bug reports, or help with configuration, visit the <a href="https://wp.cookieray.com/contact" rel="nofollow ugc">CookieRay support page</a>.</p>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>CookieRay does not send analytics, telemetry, or visitor data to CookieRay-operated servers.</p>
<h4>1. Same-site cookie scanner</h4>
<p>When an administrator runs a cookie scan, CookieRay uses the WordPress HTTP API (wp_remote_get) to fetch public URLs belonging to the same WordPress site — for example the homepage, published post URLs, WooCommerce storefront pages, and sitemap entries.</p>
<p>What is sent: Standard HTTP GET requests to your own site’s public URLs.<br />
When: Only when an administrator triggers a scan from CookieRay admin screens.<br />
Who receives the requests: Your own web server. No data is sent to CookieRay or any third party.<br />
Source file: includes/class-scanner.php</p>
<h4>2. Google Consent Mode v2 (optional, admin-enabled)</h4>
<p>When enabled in Settings, CookieRay outputs JavaScript on visitor pages that signals consent state to Google tags you have independently installed (e.g. GA4, Google Ads, Google Tag Manager). CookieRay does not make server-side HTTP calls to Google.</p>
<p>What is sent: Browser-side consent signals read by locally loaded Google tags you control.<br />
When: When Consent Mode is enabled in CookieRay Settings and visitors load pages that include your Google tags.<br />
Who receives downstream data: Google, per your Google account and tag configuration.</p>
<p>Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy<br />
Google Terms of Service: https://policies.google.com/terms<br />
Google Consent Mode documentation: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/9976101</p>


CookieRay – Cookie Banner for Cookie Consent (GDPR/CCPA Compliant)

Cookie consent banner, script blocking, Google Consent Mode v2, cookie scanner, and consent logs for WordPress.

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.

CookieRay – Cookie Banner for Cookie Consent (GDPR/CCPA Compliant) vs Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner