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<p>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.</p>
<h4>⚙️ Fully customizable</h4>
<p>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.</p>
<h4>🪶 Lightweight</h4>
<p>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.</p>
<h4>♿ Accessible</h4>
<p>An a11y friendly plugin — fully accessible and WAI-ARIA compliant.</p>
<h4>🌐 Translatable</h4>
<p>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.</p>
<h4>📱 Responsive</h4>
<p>Fully responsive and mobile-friendly cookie consent banner and settings modal.</p>
<h4>🙅 Block scripts</h4>
<p>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.</p>
<h4>🧹 Auto-clear cookies</h4>
<p>Automatically delete cookies when a user opts-out of a specific category inside cookie settings.</p>
<h4>✋ Force consent</h4>
<p>Block the user from interacting with the page until they consent to your cookie policy.</p>
<h4>🔁 Re-consent</h4>
<p>Ask users to consent again when you update your cookie policy.</p>
<h4>📝 Consent records</h4>
<p>Record user consents to be able to provide proof of consent for auditing purposes.</p>
<h4>🎛️ Floating settings button</h4>
<p>Add a floating settings button to your website that allows users to change their cookie preferences at any time.</p>
<h4>🤖 Hide from bots</h4>
<p>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.</p>
<h4>🧩 Google Consent Mode (GCM) integration</h4>
<p>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.</p>
<h4>🚪 Google tag gateway integration</h4>
<p>One-click PHP proxy to quickly route traffic to Google tag gateway for advertisers.</p>
<h4>✨ AI integration</h4>
<p>Integrate with AI to generate translations and cookie descriptions. Supports both GPT and Gemini.</p>
<h4>🧱 Block for the WordPress Block Editor</h4>
<p>Add the <strong>Pressidium Cookies Table</strong> block for the Block Editor to display a dynamic table listing all cookies under the selected category, making it easy for users to understand what cookies are being used on the site.</p>
<h4>⌨️ Control it programmatically</h4>
<p>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.</p>
<h4>About Pressidium</h4>
<p>This is a free and open source WordPress plugin developed by Pressidium®. Pressidium offers Managed WordPress hosting for web professionals designed to optimize the performance, security, and scalability of WordPress websites. With a strong emphasis on reliability, Pressidium utilizes high-available architecture to ensure your website’s uptime.</p>


Pressidium Cookie Consent


It is very easy to customize and developer friendly.



I was thinking of using the vanilla-cookieconsent library directly but I found that someone had already created a WordPress plugin based on that library which saved me a lot of work.



I noticed one issue and the developers very quickly fixed it after I reported it.


Excellent


I was quite frustrated from other plugins. I was planning create my own plugin with vanilla-cookieconsent. That was my last search before starting with development.



THANK YOU!


just my dreams come true


After checking out CookieYes, Complianz, CookieBot etc etc. I luckily found this plugin!



Lightweight, open source, non invasive, non locking-- what a breath of fresh air.



A big thank you to the devs. This is how plugins should be written. 



I'd happily donate for this plugin.


Great!

Good job


Tried so many cookie consent solutions over the years and so glad I have settled on this one now. Looks really nice and full-featured. I like not having to rely on some third-party hosted consent solution. Many thanks for your hard work.


Fantastic

Lightweight, user-friendly and customizable cookie consent banner to help you comply with the EU GDPR cookie law and CCPA regulations.

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<p>Stella Cookies is a WordPress cookie consent plugin for managing a cookie banner, consent categories, and third-party content controls for analytics, marketing, and embedded services.</p>
<p>The plugin includes support for Google Consent Mode v2, configurable consent categories, script blocking patterns, iframe blocking, cookie policy content, and a built-in shortcode for displaying your cookie policy and cookie declaration page.</p>
<p>It is built for site owners who need a configurable cookie banner and for developers who need flexible controls for consent-based script loading.</p>
<h4>Free Features 🚀</h4>
<ul>
<li>Enable or disable the cookie banner from one settings screen.</li>
<li>Support for Google Consent Mode v2 workflows.</li>
<li>Block analytics and marketing scripts until consent.</li>
<li>Optional strict prior blocking for uncategorized third-party scripts.</li>
<li>Configure statistics and marketing script patterns.</li>
<li>Configure allowlist patterns for trusted scripts.</li>
<li>Optional iframe blocking for embedded third-party content.</li>
<li>Consent version control for resetting consent after policy changes.</li>
<li>Cookie Policy content editor.</li>
<li>Cookie declaration list for transparency pages.</li>
<li><code>[stella_cookies_policy]</code> shortcode for policy and consent reset display.</li>
<li>Banner design templates and custom styling controls.</li>
<li>Button text, color, and font size customization.</li>
<li>Preference manager with necessary, statistics, and marketing controls.</li>
<li>Floating badge option to reopen consent controls.</li>
<li>Live admin preview for banner design changes.</li>
<li>In-admin help guide and system status summary.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Who It Is For</h4>
<ul>
<li>Website owners who need a configurable consent banner.</li>
<li>Agencies managing privacy compliance across client sites.</li>
<li>Developers who need finer control over script loading behavior.</li>
<li>Businesses that want a clean free plugin and an upgrade path to advanced compliance workflows.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Upgrade to Pro⚡</h4>
<p>Stella Cookies Pro extends the free plugin with advanced compliance tools including cookie scanning, staged scan review, scan history, email alerts, consent logs, analytics reporting, geo targeting, Global Privacy Control support, GTM sync, and additional banner branding controls.</p>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin does not make direct HTTP requests to any external service or API on its own.</p>
<p>However, the plugin includes built-in script-blocking pattern lists that reference well-known third-party domain strings. These strings are used <strong>locally</strong> to match and block scripts loaded by your own site before consent is granted. No data is sent to these domains by the plugin itself.</p>
<p>The following third-party domains are referenced in the built-in blocking pattern defaults:</p>
<h4>Google Tag Manager / Google Analytics</h4>
<p>Pattern used: <code>googletagmanager.com/gtag</code>, <code>google-analytics.com</code></p>
<p>These patterns allow the plugin to identify and block Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager scripts until the visitor consents to the Statistics category.</p>
<p>If your site loads Google tags, those tags will connect to Google’s servers. Please refer to Google’s own terms and privacy policy:<br />
* Terms of Service: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/<br />
* Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy</p>
<h4>Meta (Facebook) Pixel</h4>
<p>Pattern used: <code>connect.facebook.net</code></p>
<p>This pattern allows the plugin to identify and block Facebook/Meta Pixel scripts until the visitor consents to the Marketing category.</p>
<p>If your site loads the Meta Pixel, it will connect to Meta’s servers. Please refer to Meta’s own terms and privacy policy:<br />
* Terms of Service: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/businesstools<br />
* Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/</p>
<h4>Other built-in patterns</h4>
<p>The plugin also includes built-in blocking patterns for other common analytics and advertising services including <code>clarity.ms</code> (Microsoft Clarity), <code>hotjar.com</code>, <code>doubleclick.net</code> (Google Ads), <code>googleadservices.com</code>, <code>googlesyndication.com</code>, <code>ads-twitter.com</code>, <code>platform.twitter.com</code>, <code>tiktok.com</code>, <code>snap.licdn.com</code>, <code>ct.pinterest.com</code>, <code>matomo</code>, <code>plausible.io</code>.</p>
<p>All of these patterns are used solely to match and block third-party scripts on your own site. The plugin itself does not transmit any data to these services. Data transmission to these services only occurs after the visitor grants consent, or if the scripts are loaded by other means outside the plugin’s control.</p>
<h3>Developer API (Hardcoded Scripts)</h3>
<p>The safest and most WordPress-native way to load scripts is using <code>wp_enqueue_script()</code>. Stella Cookies will automatically detect and block these enqueued scripts based on your consent settings.</p>
<p><strong>Please do not paste raw <code><script></code> tags directly into your theme templates (<code>header.php</code>, <code>footer.php</code>, etc.).</strong> Hardcoded raw scripts cannot be reliably blocked without causing conflicts with other plugins.</p>
<p>If you are a developer and absolutely must output a script manually, please use the provided helper functions. These functions will automatically enforce the user’s consent choice without rewriting the whole page.</p>
<p><strong>For external scripts:</strong><br />
    stella_cookies_script( ‘https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js’, ‘marketing’ );</p>
<p><strong>For inline scripts:</strong><br />
    <code>php<br />
stella_cookies_inline_script( "<br />
    window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];<br />
    function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}<br />
    gtag('js', new Date());<br />
    gtag('config', 'G-XXXXXXXXXX');<br />
", 'statistics' );</code></p>


Stella Cookies

Cookie banner plugin for GDPR and CCPA with Consent Mode v2, script blocking, iframe blocking, cookie policy shortcode, and banner design controls.

Pressidium Cookie Consent vs Stella Cookies