Nicola Modugno

<p>!!! Version 2.2 of plugin is compatible with Gutenberg for translations<br />
!!! Version 2.1 of plugin is fully compatible with WPML and Polylang to easly manage texts translations !!!<br />
!!! Version 2 of plugin is GDPR compliant – Cookie name for user preferences is now “CookiePreferences-[wp_install_dir]” !!!</p>
<p>Like others plugin, Smart Cookie Kit blocks cookies until the visitor accepts them, but it unlocks them asyncronously (without refreshing the current page): this logic increases server performance, improve user experience, and, more important, makes the plugin compatible with cache plugins!!<br />
Thinked for marketing-oriented sites, this plugin blocks standard scripts and conversion/remarketing scripts (including the “noscript” tag too).</p>
<p>Why I decided to create this plugin?<br />
There are a lot of plugins for cookies management… But:</p>
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<p>Many work on the server, modifying some code portions directly in the output: if is there a cache system, it will cache the page in the version for the user that “fired” the cache creation (with modified scripts if the user has not accepted cookies, or with the original scripts if the cookies were accepted), and that version will be served to ALL visitors, regardless of their acceptance.<br />
The problem: it is not possible use cache systems.</p>
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<p>When user accepts cookies, it is necessary to open another page to have original scripts working. A lot of plugin have done a step forward, making an automatic refresh of the visited page, but web servers have to work again to serve the “correct” page and this may be a serious problem with slow connections (think to mobile devices), heavy pages (without cached pages!!), pages with external resources (Youtube videos, Ads, Social Plugins, …). Has it ever appened that you start reading some content or jump below to search content of interest and the page scrolls back on the top because of a refresh?!<br />
The problem: worst server performance and user experience.</p>
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<p>Many lets specify a page that contains cookie policy (to link that in the banner), but often they show the cookie banner in that page too.<br />
This is not a big problem, I know, but it is a detail! 😉</p>
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<p>I searched for a plugins that would not unblock cookies directly in the output from the server, to permit the use of cache systems; more over, I would like “things” faster and smoother without page refreshes and heavy loads.<br />
My research had not satisfactory results (for me), so I decided to write my own plugin!</p>
<p>The main functionality are the following:</p>
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<p><strong>It recognises and modify automatically</strong> scripts, iframes and images to block them (the block happens directly in the output from the server).</p>
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<p><strong>It permits you to tag code</strong> to block.</p>
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<p>It shows the cookie banner only if it is necessary.</p>
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<p>It includes in the banner the link to your cookie policy page, and it does not show the banner in that page!</p>
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<p>Once the user accepts the policy (or when policy is already accepted), <strong>it unblocks and run scripts via javascript, without a page refresh</strong>. Being via javascript, <strong>the unblock happens even if there are active cache systems</strong>!</p>
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<h3>Support</h3>
<p>Please write on the WordPress official support area: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/smart-cookie-kit<br />
For questions, support or suggestions, you could write to: info[-at-]nicolamodugno[-dot-]it</p>


Smart Cookie Kit

Unfortunately this plugin is not compliant with the current GDPR which needs a differentiated cookie consent collection.

Not compliant with the current cookie law

Preventive blocking of third party cookies for GDPR/EU Cookie Law/ePrivacy. Translatable, cacheable, lightweight, powerful!

Ontario

<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>
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<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>
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<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.

Smart Cookie Kit vs Plain Cookie Consent