Marcin Pietrzak

<p>The <strong>Simple Consent Mode</strong> plugin helps seamlessly integrate Google Tag Manager’s (GTM) Consent Mode v2 on your website, ensuring compliance with privacy regulations like GDPR. This lightweight plugin automatically configures Consent Mode and manages user consent for analytics and marketing cookies.</p>
<p>With Simple Consent Mode, you can dynamically adjust the behavior of your tags based on whether the user has granted or denied consent, while still gathering anonymous data when consent is not provided. The plugin makes it easy to implement, providing a simple interface for enabling and configuring consents, without needing to manually adjust code.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Automatic Consent Mode Configuration</strong>: Integrates GTM Consent Mode v2 with no need for complex manual setup.</li>
<li><strong>Granular Consent Control</strong>: Allows users to opt in or out of specific types of cookies (e.g., analytics, marketing).</li>
<li><strong>GTM Tag Support</strong>: Works seamlessly with Google Analytics, Google Ads, and other GTM tags that rely on user consent.</li>
<li><strong>GDPR and Privacy Compliant</strong>: Helps ensure compliance with global privacy regulations by allowing proper consent tracking.</li>
<li><strong>Lightweight & Easy Setup</strong>: Minimal configuration required.</li>
</ul>
<p>This plugin simplifies the process of integrating and managing GTM’s Consent Mode v2, giving site owners better control over cookie usage while respecting user privacy preferences.</p>
<h4>GitHub</h4>
<p>The Simple Consent Mode plugin is available also on <a href="https://github.com/iworks/simple-consent-mode" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub – Simple Consent Mode</a>.</p>


Simple Consent Mode

Simple Consent Mode helps integrate GTM Consent Mode v2 on your website.

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<p>Plain Cookie Consent is a no-frills GDPR + ePrivacy consent banner for WordPress. It ships a single banner, Google Consent Mode v2 defaults, a server-side audit log with pseudonymised subject hashing, a DSAR lookup helper, and constant-gated Meta Pixel / Microsoft Clarity / LinkedIn Insight Tag helpers — all under GPL v2, with no upsells and no external telemetry.</p>
<p>The plugin is designed to support a GDPR/ePrivacy-compliant consent setup. Final compliance depends on the site owner’s configuration and linked privacy policy.</p>
<h4>Core compliance features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Google Consent Mode v2 defaults injected at <code>wp_head</code> priority 1, before any tag manager or gtag snippet.</li>
<li>Early inline consent replay with a revision gate — consent recorded before a policy revision bump is not replayed; the banner re-prompts instead.</li>
<li>Server-side audit log (<code>wp_plain_consent_log</code>) with a privacy-preserving SHA-256 subject hash over a daily-rotating salt, and a 730-day default retention purge (filterable via constant).</li>
<li>Consent revision system with a “Force re-consent for all users now” admin action and strict rollback if the audit insert fails.</li>
<li>Two-step choice pattern: the first layer offers Accept All and Show Options; the preferences screen (one click away) offers equal-weight Accept All, Reject All, and Save Preferences buttons.</li>
<li>Server-mirror consent cookie via a cache-safe <code>GET /mirror-nonce</code> endpoint (<code>Cache-Control: no-store</code>), so full-page caching does not break nonce validation.</li>
<li>Geo targeting: the consent-required region set is the EEA (EU-27 plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway) plus the United Kingdom. Detection uses the Cloudflare <code>CF-IPCountry</code> header when present, with a fail-safe default: if the country cannot be determined, the visitor is treated as in-scope.</li>
<li>CSV/JSON streamed export of the consent log, plus a pre-uninstall evidence warning with one-click export.</li>
<li>DSAR lookup admin tool: recompute a visitor’s subject hash from IP + User-Agent and list matching consent-log entries (GDPR Art. 15 support).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Integrations</h4>
<ul>
<li>Meta Pixel: define <code>PLAIN_COOKIE_CONSENT_FACEBOOK_PIXEL_ID</code> in <code>wp-config.php</code>.</li>
<li>Microsoft Clarity: define <code>PLAIN_COOKIE_CONSENT_CLARITY_PROJECT_ID</code> in <code>wp-config.php</code>.</li>
<li>LinkedIn Insight Tag: define <code>PLAIN_COOKIE_CONSENT_LINKEDIN_PARTNER_ID</code> in <code>wp-config.php</code>.</li>
<li>Public <code>window.plainCookieConsent</code> JavaScript API (<code>getCategories</code>, <code>hasConsent</code>, <code>onChange</code>, <code>onGrant</code>, <code>onRevoke</code>) for site-specific vendors.</li>
<li>Cookie cleanup on revoke with curated defaults for LinkedIn, TikTok, Hotjar, Clarity, Yandex Metrica, and Snapchat (<code>plain_cookie_consent_autoclear_cookies</code> filter).</li>
<li><code>localStorage</code> / <code>sessionStorage</code> cleanup on a real granted-to-revoked transition (<code>plain_cookie_consent_clear_storage_keys</code> filter).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Accessibility</h4>
<ul>
<li>The banner and preferences modal are attested against WCAG 2.1 AA.</li>
<li>axe-core smoke tests (<code>wcag2a</code>, <code>wcag2aa</code>, <code>wcag21aa</code> tags) run on every push and pull request via GitHub Actions.</li>
<li>Site-level accessibility remains the operator’s responsibility.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Languages</h4>
<p>Translation catalogs ship for nine languages: English, German, Russian, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, and Portuguese. Banner language auto-resolution covers all nine shipped languages, including regional variants (for example de-AT or pt-BR), with any other locale falling back to English. Any shipped catalog can also be selected explicitly, and translators can override strings the standard WordPress gettext way.</p>
<h4>Not included</h4>
<ul>
<li>TCF v2.2 (programmatic publishers).</li>
<li>Consent analytics dashboards beyond the read-only Consent Health widget.</li>
<li>Multi-domain consent sync.</li>
<li>Banner A/B testing.</li>
<li>Script auto-blocking beyond Consent Mode and the documented vendor helpers.</li>
</ul>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin has no telemetry and never sends data to its own or the author’s servers. Consent records stay in your own WordPress database.</p>
<p>The plugin can optionally load three well-known third-party marketing/analytics tags <strong>on your behalf</strong>. Each one is OFF by default and only ever loads when BOTH of the following are true:</p>
<ol>
<li>You explicitly enable it by defining the matching constant in <code>wp-config.php</code>, and</li>
<li>The visitor grants the relevant consent category in the banner.</li>
</ol>
<p>If you do not define these constants, the plugin makes no third-party requests at all. Once enabled, the tag still loads only after the visitor grants the relevant consent category in the banner.</p>
<h4>Meta (Facebook) Pixel</h4>
<p>Optional advertising measurement. Enabled by defining <code>PLAIN_COOKIE_CONSENT_FACEBOOK_PIXEL_ID</code>. When a visitor grants <strong>advertising</strong> consent, the plugin loads <code>https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js</code> and initialises the Pixel with your Pixel ID. From then on, on each page view, Meta receives standard Pixel data: your Pixel ID, the page URL and referrer, the visitor’s IP address and browser/user-agent, and a PageView event. Nothing is sent before advertising consent.<br />
Provider: Meta Platforms, Inc. Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/ — Business Tools Terms: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/businesstools</p>
<h4>Microsoft Clarity</h4>
<p>Optional session analytics (heatmaps and session insights). Enabled by defining <code>PLAIN_COOKIE_CONSENT_CLARITY_PROJECT_ID</code>. When a visitor grants <strong>analytics</strong> consent, the plugin loads <code>https://www.clarity.ms/tag/<your-project-id></code>. From then on, on each page view, Microsoft receives Clarity analytics data: your project ID, the page URL, the visitor’s IP address and browser/user-agent, and interaction events such as clicks and scrolls. Nothing is sent before analytics consent.<br />
Provider: Microsoft Corporation. Privacy Statement: https://www.microsoft.com/privacy/privacystatement — Clarity Terms of Service: https://clarity.microsoft.com/terms</p>
<h4>LinkedIn Insight Tag</h4>
<p>Optional advertising measurement on LinkedIn. Enabled by defining <code>PLAIN_COOKIE_CONSENT_LINKEDIN_PARTNER_ID</code>. When a visitor grants <strong>advertising</strong> consent, the plugin loads <code>https://snap.licdn.com/li.lms-analytics/insight.min.js</code> with your Partner ID. From then on, on each page view, LinkedIn receives Insight Tag data: your Partner ID, the page URL, and the visitor’s IP address and browser/user-agent. Nothing is sent before advertising consent.<br />
Provider: LinkedIn Corporation. Privacy Policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy — LinkedIn Ads Agreement: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/ads-agreement</p>
<h3>Disclaimer</h3>
<p>This plugin is provided “as is”, free of charge, for evaluation and use at<br />
the site operator’s own discretion and risk.</p>
<ul>
<li>The site operator alone chooses which plugins to install and run on their<br />
site, and bears full responsibility for that choice and its consequences.</li>
<li>The plugin is offered for informational and evaluation purposes. The<br />
authors make no guarantees and no promises of any kind — including<br />
correctness, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose, or<br />
uninterrupted operation.</li>
<li>Software may contain errors. Any errors, malfunctions, data loss, or<br />
legal consequences arising from the use of this plugin are the sole<br />
responsibility of the site operator.</li>
<li>Nothing in this plugin or its documentation constitutes legal advice.<br />
The plugin is designed to support a GDPR/ePrivacy-oriented consent setup,<br />
but it does not and cannot guarantee legal compliance of any specific<br />
site — final compliance always depends on the operator’s configuration,<br />
vendors, and policies.</li>
<li>The warranty disclaimer and limitation of liability are governed by<br />
sections 11 and 12 of the GNU GPL v2 license that ships with this plugin.</li>
</ul>


Plain Cookie Consent

Minimal clean-room GDPR/ePrivacy consent banner with Google Consent Mode v2, early inline replay, DSAR helper, and no upsells.

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