Brainstorm Force

<p>Most cookie plugins either:</p>
<ul>
<li>Just show a banner</li>
<li>Or make setup feel like preparing for a law exam</li>
</ul>
<p>SureCookie exists because there should be something better.</p>
<p>Something accurate.<br />
Something simple.<br />
Something modern.<br />
Something built properly for WordPress.</p>
<p>SureCookie automatically detects the cookies running on your website, categorizes them intelligently, blocks non-essential scripts before consent, and stores consent logs directly inside your WordPress database.</p>
<p>No traffic limits.<br />
No SaaS visitor caps.<br />
No complicated configuration maze.</p>
<p>Just clean, real enforcement.</p>
<p><a href="https://app.zipwp.com/blueprint/surecookie-n9i" rel=" nofollow ugc">Try the live demo of SureCookie.</a></p>
<h3>How SureCookie Actually Works</h3>
<p>There are 4 things that matter when it comes to consent:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Detection has to be accurate:</strong> If you do not know what cookies are actually running on your site, everything else falls apart. SureCookie scans with a real browser, not guesswork.</li>
<li><strong>Enforcement has to be technical:</strong> A banner asking for permission means nothing if scripts are already firing. SureCookie blocks non-essential scripts at the code level before consent is given.</li>
<li><strong>Data has to stay under your control:</strong> Consent logs belong on your server. Not locked inside a third-party SaaS dashboard you cannot fully control.</li>
<li><strong>Setup has to be simple:</strong> Compliance should not require a weekend of configuration. SureCookie gets you from install to enforcement in minutes.</li>
</ol>
<p>Everything in SureCookie revolves around that.</p>
<h3>Real Browser Cookie Detection</h3>
<p>This is important.</p>
<p>Most tools try to guess cookies by scanning HTML.</p>
<p>That is not accurate.</p>
<p>SureCookie uses a Playwright-powered scanning engine at <a href="https://library.surecookie.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://library.surecookie.com/</a>.</p>
<p>When you run a scan, it loads your website in a real browser environment. Not static source code. An actual browser session.</p>
<p>That means it detects:</p>
<ul>
<li>Cookies injected dynamically</li>
<li>Scripts loaded after interaction</li>
<li>Conditional third-party trackers</li>
<li>Tag manager injected scripts</li>
<li>Things that only appear after page load</li>
</ul>
<p>It visits your website like a real user would.</p>
<p>That is the difference.</p>
<p>Once detected, cookies are categorized intelligently and automatically.</p>
<h3>Smart Categorization</h3>
<p>After detection, SureCookie categorizes cookies into:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essential</li>
<li>Functional</li>
<li>Analytics</li>
<li>Marketing</li>
</ul>
<p>Most cookies are categorized automatically using a continuously improving detection database.</p>
<p>Everything is editable.</p>
<p>The goal is simple:</p>
<p>Nobody should have to manually research every random cookie string just to get compliant.</p>
<h3>Script Blocking Before Consent</h3>
<p>This part is critical.</p>
<p>Showing a banner is not compliance.</p>
<p>Before consent:</p>
<ul>
<li>Analytics does not run</li>
<li>Marketing pixels do not fire</li>
<li>Tag managers do not execute</li>
<li>Embedded videos do not load tracking</li>
<li>Social widgets are paused</li>
</ul>
<p>Consent is enforced at execution level.</p>
<p>Not just visually.</p>
<h3>Consent Logs Stored Locally</h3>
<p>All consent logs are stored inside your WordPress database in a dedicated custom table.</p>
<ul>
<li>View logs from the admin dashboard</li>
<li>Export for compliance documentation</li>
<li>Delete anytime</li>
<li>Control retention periods</li>
</ul>
<p>Compliance data stays on your server. Not in an external SaaS dashboard.</p>
<h3>Performance by Design</h3>
<p>SureCookie is lightweight from the ground up.</p>
<ul>
<li>No jQuery dependency</li>
<li>Minimal frontend footprint</li>
<li>Dedicated database table for logs</li>
<li>No heavy background processing</li>
</ul>
<p>Blocking non-essential scripts before consent also reduces unnecessary third-party requests, which improves page load performance as a side effect.</p>
<h3>Designed in 2026, Not 2019</h3>
<p>Many WordPress plugins are outdated.</p>
<p>Too many toggles.<br />
Too much legal jargon.<br />
Too much friction.</p>
<p>SureCookie is designed to feel modern.</p>
<p>The onboarding is structured:</p>
<ol>
<li>Scan your site</li>
<li>Review detected cookies</li>
<li>Confirm categories</li>
<li>Activate enforcement</li>
</ol>
<p>That is it.</p>
<p>Setup should feel good, not overwhelming.</p>
<h3>No Visitor-Based Limits</h3>
<p>Whether a site has 1,000 visitors or 1,000,000 visitors, SureCookie works the same way.</p>
<p>No caps.<br />
No surprises.<br />
No usage-based pricing tiers.</p>
<h3>Built for the WordPress Ecosystem</h3>
<p>SureCookie works with:</p>
<ul>
<li>SureCart</li>
<li>WooCommerce</li>
<li>Easy Digital Downloads</li>
<li>Page builders</li>
<li>Analytics tools</li>
<li>Marketing integrations</li>
<li>Multisite setups</li>
</ul>
<p>Consent logic applies across your site.</p>
<h3>Who This Is For</h3>
<ul>
<li>Site owners who want real enforcement, not just a banner</li>
<li>eCommerce stores handling customer data</li>
<li>Agencies managing multiple client sites</li>
<li>Developers who care about clean implementation</li>
<li>Businesses operating in regulated regions</li>
</ul>
<p>If the goal is just the simplest possible banner without caring about detection accuracy, SureCookie is probably not the right fit.</p>
<p>If the goal is modern, accurate, performance-conscious consent management, it is.</p>
<h3>Important Note</h3>
<p>SureCookie provides the technical infrastructure for consent management. Legal compliance depends on your policies and jurisdiction. Always consult a qualified legal professional when needed.</p>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p><strong>Cookie Scanning:</strong> SureCookie connects to <a href="https://library.surecookie.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://library.surecookie.com/</a> to provide real browser-based cookie scanning and smart categorization.</p>
<p>When you run a cookie scan, SureCookie sends the URLs of your selected pages to the scanner. A real Playwright-powered browser visits those pages, just like an actual user would, and detects every cookie, tracking script, and third-party service running on your site. Detected cookies are then automatically categorized using a continuously improving detection database.</p>
<p><strong>Scanner Registration & Authentication:</strong> Before your first scan, SureCookie performs a one-time registration handshake with <code>library.surecookie.com/api/register</code>. The request includes your site URL, the WordPress administrator email, and the SureCookie plugin version so the SaaS can associate scan results with your site. The SaaS issues a per-site credential which is stored locally in your WordPress database (the <code>surecookie_site_credentials</code> option) and used to sign every subsequent scan request with HMAC-SHA256. To prove that the registration is initiated by an admin who actually controls the domain, the SaaS makes a single follow-up GET request to <code>https://yoursite.example/wp-json/surecookie/v1/site-verify/{token}</code> and confirms the token matches before issuing the credential. No user content or personal data is sent during this handshake — only the site URL, the administrator email, and the plugin version. Credentials are automatically invalidated and re-issued if the site moves to a new domain.</p>
<p><strong>Consent IP Logs:</strong> For region-aware consent, visitor IP addresses are processed through MaxMind integration to determine country-level location, so the correct Country gets into the consent log.</p>
<p><strong>PDF Export (PDFObject):</strong> SureCookie allows administrators to download consent logs as PDF files. This feature uses the <a href="https://pdfobject.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">PDFObject</a> library, loaded from the cdnjs Cloudflare CDN: <code>https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/pdfobject/2.1.1/pdfobject.min.js</code>. PDFObject is used solely to render the consent log data as a PDF in the browser. No user data is sent to the CDN — the library file itself is fetched and executed locally in the browser. PDFObject is MIT-licensed and GPL-compatible.</p>
<h3>Data Stored Locally</h3>
<p>All consent data is stored inside your WordPress database:</p>
<ul>
<li>User consent choices (categories accepted or rejected)</li>
<li>Timestamps of consent actions</li>
<li>Masked IP address, country and user session ID</li>
<li>Cookie scan results</li>
<li>Plugin configuration settings</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
<p>SureCookie processes data through its API service at library.surecookie.com to empower cookie scanning and region-aware consent. Here is exactly what happens and why.</p>
<p><strong>What we send to surecookie.com:</strong></p>
<p>When your site is connected to the billing portal, the plugin sends only:</p>
<ul>
<li>An opaque account identifier (UUID) — never your email address.</li>
<li>The site URL, plugin version, and the URLs you’re scanning.</li>
<li>For Pro users: an HMAC signature derived from your license key (the license key itself never crosses the wire after activation).</li>
</ul>
<p>Your admin email is never transmitted on scan requests, scan polling, or any other recurring call after authentication completes.</p>
<p><strong>What Is Processed and Why:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Cookie Scanning:</strong> When you run a scan, page URLs are sent to the scanning service where a real browser detects cookies and scripts. Detected cookie information (names, domains, durations) is used to categorize cookies and improve detection accuracy across all SureCookie installations.</li>
<li><strong>Region Detection:</strong> Visitor IP addresses are processed through MaxMind to determine country-level location for applying the correct Country into logs. IP addresses are masked before being stored in your database.</li>
<li><strong>Consent Records:</strong> Consent choices, timestamps, and user session ID details are logged locally in your WordPress database for compliance documentation.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Where Data Lives:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>All consent logs, scan results, and settings are stored in your WordPress database</li>
<li>Data sent to library.surecookie.com for scanning and geolocation may be temporarily stored for processing</li>
<li>Nothing is sold, shared with third parties, or used for advertising</li>
</ul>
<p>Since visitor data is processed through SureCookie’s services, this should be mentioned in your site’s privacy policy. Full details: <a href="https://surecookie.com/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://surecookie.com/privacy-policy/</a></p>
<p><strong>Data Retention and Control:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Consent logs and scan results can be viewed, exported, or deleted anytime from your WordPress admin</li>
<li>Retention periods are configurable in plugin settings</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Security:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>All data transmission uses HTTPS encryption</li>
<li>API communications are secured with authentication tokens</li>
</ul>
<p>For questions about data processing, visit <a href="https://surecookie.com/support/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://surecookie.com/support/</a></p>
<h3>About Brainstorm Force</h3>
<p>SureCookie is built by Brainstorm Force, the team behind Astra and other widely used WordPress products.</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/surecookie/" rel="ugc">Support Forum</a></li>
<li><a href="https://surecookie.com/docs/" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a></li>
</ul>


SureCookie – Smarter Cookie Consent solution

Real cookie consent for WordPress. Browser-based scanning, smart categorization, strict script blocking, and consent logs stored in your database.

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.

SureCookie – Smarter Cookie Consent solution vs Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner