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<p>CookieVJ helps your website comply with GDPR and CCPA regulations by displaying a customizable cookie consent banner to inform visitors about cookie usage and obtain their consent. Now with Google Tag Manager integration for seamless analytics and marketing tag management.</p>
<h4>Why Choose CookieVJ?</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Zero Configuration Hassle</strong> – Works out of the box with sensible defaults</li>
<li><strong>Privacy First</strong> – GDPR and CCPA compliant by design</li>
<li><strong>Lightweight & Fast</strong> – Minimal JavaScript, no jQuery dependency</li>
<li><strong>Developer Friendly</strong> – Extensive hooks, filters, and clean code</li>
<li><strong>Translation Ready</strong> – Fully compatible with WPML, Polylang, and translation plugins</li>
</ul>
<h4>Core Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Easy Setup</strong> – Configure in minutes from Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> CookieVJ</li>
<li><strong>GDPR & CCPA Compliant</strong> – Meet privacy regulations without legal headaches</li>
<li><strong>Google Tag Manager Integration</strong> – Add your GTM container ID and manage tags based on consent</li>
<li><strong>Customizable Design</strong> – Choose colors, position, and button text to match your brand</li>
<li><strong>Multiple Positions</strong> – Display banner at bottom (full width), bottom left, or bottom right</li>
<li><strong>Lightweight Performance</strong> – Minimal impact on page load speed (< 5KB minified)</li>
<li><strong>Cookie-Based Storage</strong> – Uses proper browser cookies (not localStorage)</li>
<li><strong>Translation Ready</strong> – Fully translatable with .pot file included</li>
<li><strong>Clean Code</strong> – Object-oriented architecture following WordPress coding standards</li>
<li><strong>GeoIP Integration</strong> – Automatically fetch and log user country using a free GeoIP service</li>
<li><strong>Consent-Based Tag Loading</strong> – GTM tags respect user consent choices</li>
<li><strong>No External Dependencies</strong> – Everything runs on your server</li>
</ul>
<h4>Banner Customization Options</h4>
<ul>
<li>Enable/Disable cookie banner</li>
<li>Customize banner message (supports HTML)</li>
<li>Change accept/reject button text</li>
<li>Choose banner position (bottom full width, bottom left, bottom right)</li>
<li>Select background color with color picker</li>
<li>Select button color with color picker</li>
<li>Add Google Tag Manager container ID</li>
<li>Set cookie expiration time (filterable)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Google Tag Manager Integration</h4>
<p>The plugin integrates seamlessly with Google Tag Manager:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Simple Setup</strong> – Just add your GTM container ID (GTM-XXXXXXX) in the settings</li>
<li><strong>Consent-Based Loading</strong> – GTM script loads automatically only after user accepts cookies</li>
<li><strong>JavaScript API</strong> – Consent status available via <code>window.cookievjConsent</code> for conditional tag firing</li>
<li><strong>DataLayer Events</strong> – Automatic dataLayer push events for consent changes</li>
<li><strong>Consent Mode v2</strong> – Compatible with Google Consent Mode v2 for enhanced privacy</li>
<li><strong>No Code Required</strong> – Works immediately without custom JavaScript</li>
</ul>
<h4>Privacy & Compliance</h4>
<p>This plugin helps you display cookie consent notices but does not provide legal advice. Please consult with a legal professional to ensure your website complies with applicable privacy laws.</p>
<h4>Developer Information</h4>
<p>CookieVJ is built with developers in mind:</p>
<p><strong>Code Quality:</strong><br />
* Object-oriented architecture<br />
* PSR-4 autoloading<br />
* Proper sanitization and escaping<br />
* Nonce verification for security<br />
* Translation-ready with all strings wrapped<br />
* No jQuery dependency<br />
* Follows WordPress coding standards</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<h4>Need Help?</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Bug Reports:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/vishavjeet-in/cookievj/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub Issues</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
<h4>Data Collection</h4>
<p>CookieVJ stores minimal data to function:</p>
<p><strong>GeoIP Service:</strong><br />
* Uses ipapi.co’s free GeoIP service to determine user country<br />
* Country code is logged temporarily for compliance targeting<br />
* No personally identifiable information (PII) is stored<br />
* No data is shared with third parties</p>
<h4>Third-Party Services</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>GeoIP Data:</strong> Provided by <a href="https://ipapi.co/" rel="nofollow ugc">ipapi.co</a> (free tier)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Love CookieVJ?</strong> Please <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/cookievj/reviews/" rel="ugc">leave a review</a> ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐</p>


CookieVJ – Cookie Notice & Consent Banner

Lightweight GDPR & CCPA compliant cookie notice with customizable consent banner and Google Tag Manager integration.

Thomas Geiger

<p>Google Tag Manager (GTM) is Google’s free tool for everyone to manage and deploy analytics and marketing tags as well as other code snippets<br />
using an intuitive web UI. To learn more about this tool, visit the <a href="https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/tag-manager/" rel="nofollow ugc">official website</a>.</p>
<p>This plugin places the GTM container code snippets onto your WordPress website so that you do not need to add it manually.<br />
Multiple containers are also supported!</p>
<p>The plugin complements your GTM setup by pushing page meta data and user information into the so called data layer.<br />
Google’s official help pages includes <a href="https://developers.google.com/tag-platform/tag-manager/datalayer#datalayer" rel="nofollow ugc">more details about the data layer</a>.</p>
<p><strong>PHP 7.4 is required to use this plugin.</strong></p>
<h4>GTM container code placement</h4>
<p>The original GTM container code is divided into two parts:</p>
<p>The first part is a javascript code snippet that is added to the <code><head></code> section of every page of the website.<br />
This part is critical to enable all features of GTM, and this plugin helps to place this part<br />
correctly on your site.</p>
<p>The second part is an iframe snippet that acts as a failsafe/fallback should users’ JavaScript be disabled.<br />
Google recommends – for best performance – to place this code snippet directly after the opening <code><body></code> tag on each page.</p>
<p>Albeit not ideal, it will work when placed lower in the code. This plugin provides a code placement option for the second code snippet.</p>
<p>If your WordPress theme is compatible with the additions of WordPress 5.2 then this plugin will place this second code to the right place.<br />
Users of the Genisis theme, GeneratePress theme, Elementor, Oxygen Builder and Beaver Builder Theme will also have this placed correctly.<br />
To utilize this, set the compatibility mode in plugin options to off.</p>
<p>All other users can place this second code snippet using a custom PHP code (“Manually coded” option) or select the so called “Footer” option to<br />
add the code lower in the code (it is not the recommended way but will work)</p>
<h4>Basic data included</h4>
<ul>
<li>post/page titles</li>
<li>post/page dates</li>
<li>post/page category names</li>
<li>post/page tag names</li>
<li>post/page author ID and name</li>
<li>post/page ID</li>
<li>post types</li>
<li>post format</li>
<li>post count on the current page + in the current category/tag/taxonomy</li>
<li>custom terms associated with any post type</li>
<li>logged in status</li>
<li>logged in user role</li>
<li>logged in user ID (to track cross device behaviour in Google Analytics)</li>
<li>logged in user email address (both unhashed and SHA256 hased values to be used with tracking)</li>
<li>logger in user creation date</li>
<li>site search data</li>
<li>site name and id (for WordPress multisite instances)</li>
<li>IP address of the visitor (please use the explicit consent of the visitor to utilize this)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Browser / OS / Device data</h4>
<ul>
<li>browser data (name, version, engine)</li>
<li>OS data (name, version)</li>
<li>device data (type, manufacturer, model)</li>
</ul>
<p>Data is provided using the WhichBrowser library: http://whichbrowser.net/</p>
<h4>Weather data</h4>
<p>(beta)</p>
<p>Push data about users’ current weather conditions into the dataLayer. This can be used to generate weather-related<br />
audience/remarketing lists on ad platforms and allows for user segmentation in your web analytics solutions:</p>
<ul>
<li>weather category (clouds, rain, snow, etc.)</li>
<li>weather description: more detailed data</li>
<li>temperature in Celsius or Fahrenheit</li>
<li>air pressure</li>
<li>wind speed and degrees</li>
</ul>
<p>Weather data is queried from Open Weather Map. Depending on your websites traffic, additional fees may apply:<br />
http://openweathermap.org/price</p>
<p>An (free) API key from OpenWeatherMap is required for this feature to work.</p>
<p>ipstack.com is used to determine the site visitor’s location. A (free) API key from IPStack.com is required for this feature to work:<br />
https://ipstack.com/product</p>
<h4>Media player events</h4>
<p>(experimental)</p>
<p>Track users’ interaction with any embedded media:</p>
<ul>
<li>YouTube</li>
<li>Vimeo</li>
<li>Soundcloud</li>
</ul>
<p>DataLayer events can be chosen to fire upon media player load, media is being played, paused/stopped and optionally when<br />
the user reaches 10, 20, 30, …, 90, 100% of the media duration.</p>
<p>Tracking is supported for embedded media using the built-in oEmbed feature of WordPress as well as most other media plugins<br />
and copy/pasted codes. Players injected into the website after page load are not currently supported.</p>
<h4>Scroll tracking</h4>
<p>Fire tags based on how the visitor scrolls from the top to the bottom of a page.<br />
An example would be to separate “readers” (who spend a specified amount of time on a page) from “scrollers”<br />
(who only scroll through within seconds). You can use these events to fire Analytics tags and/or remarketing/conversion tags<br />
(for micro conversions).</p>
<p>Scroll tracking is based on the solution originally created by</p>
<ul>
<li>Nick Mihailovski</li>
<li>Thomas Baekdal</li>
<li>Avinash Kaushik</li>
<li>Joost de Valk</li>
<li>Eivind Savio</li>
<li>Justin Cutroni</li>
</ul>
<p>Original script:<br />
http://cutroni.com/blog/2012/02/21/advanced-content-tracking-with-google-analytics-part-1/</p>
<h4>Blacklist & Whitelist Tag Manager tags, triggers and variables</h4>
<p>To increase website security, you have the option to white- and blacklist tags/triggers/variables.<br />
You can prevent specific tags from firing or the use of certain variable types regardless of your GTM setup.</p>
<p>If the Google account associated with your GTM account is being hacked, an attacker could easily<br />
execute malware on your website without accessing its code on your hosting server. By blacklisting custom HTML tags<br />
and/or custom JavaScript variables you can secure the Tag Manager container.</p>
<h4>Integration</h4>
<p>Google Tag Manager for WordPress integrates with several popular plugins. More integration to come!</p>
<ul>
<li>Contact Form 7: fire an event when a Contact Form 7 form was submitted with any result (mail sent, mail failed, spam detected, invalid input)</li>
<li>WooCommerce:
<ul>
<li>Implementation of <a href="https://developers.google.com/tag-manager/ecommerce-ga4" rel="nofollow ugc">GA4 E-commerce</a></li>
<li>Does not support promotions since WooCommerce does not have such a feature (yet)</li>
<li>Does not support refunds</li>
<li>Compatibility with High Performance Order Storage (HPOS)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>AMP: load your AMP container on the AMP version of your pages</li>
<li>Cookiebot: use automatic cookie blocking mode if needed</li>
<li>Google Consent Mode v2: fire the “default” command with specific consent flags to integrat with non-certified Consent Management Platforms (CMPs) and plugins.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Server side containers</h4>
<p>If you are using a <a href="https://developers.google.com/tag-manager/serverside/send-data#update_the_gtmjs_source_domain" rel="nofollow ugc">server side container</a><br />
you can enter your custom domain name and custom path to load gtm.js from your there.</p>
<h4>Exclude specific user roles from being tracked</h4>
<p>You can set which user roles needs to be excluded from tracking when a user with that role visits the frontend. This will completely disable the container code for that user.</p>


GTM4WP – A Google Tag Manager (GTM) plugin for WordPress

The plugin worked well but then an issue is caused with another plugin. I offered my help to troubleshoot this but there is no response in weeks in the support forum. Also to other threads than mine.

No support since weeks

Working as expected.


I’m disappointed with the support for this plugin. I submitted a question over a week ago, but I have yet to receive any response from the support team.



While the plugin itself may work fine, having reliable support is critical, especially when issues arise. Unfortunately, the lack of responsiveness has made it difficult to trust this plugin for long-term use.



I hope the team improves their support response time in the future.


Poor Support Experience

Advanced tag management for WordPress with Google Tag Manager

CookieVJ – Cookie Notice & Consent Banner vs GTM4WP – A Google Tag Manager (GTM) plugin for WordPress