GetTerms Cookie Consent & Policies Reviews, Downloads & Maintenance

The GetTerms plugin helps you implement cookie consent management and embed legal policies directly into your WordPress site. It connects with your GetTerms account to provide compliant, auto-updating documents and a fully configurable cookie consent banner.

Features

Connect to your GetTerms Compliance Pack using a unique token.
Embed the Cookie Consent Widget site-wide or via manual integration.
Shortcodes to display live-updated legal documents (Privacy Policy, Terms, AUP, etc.).
Support for multiple languages for both widget and policies.

Usage

Setting Up

Navigate to GetTerms in the WordPress admin menu.
Enter your GetTerms token and save your settings.

Embedding the Cookie Consent Widget

Enable the auto-embed option in plugin settings to insert the consent widget in the <head> tag.
You can also embed manually with the provided script tag for advanced use cases or multilingual configurations.
To ensure proper consent enforcement, embed the script as early as possible in the head section.
If you have manually included other scripts in your <head> the recommendation is to manually embed the GetTerms script above all other scripts, and not use auto-embed

Using Shortcodes

Use the following shortcodes to display your policy documents:

[getterms_privacy_en], [getterms_terms_en], [getterms_aup_en]
[getterms_privacy_fr], [getterms_terms_fr], [getterms_aup_fr]
Additional languages and policies are listed in the plugin settings.

How wp_head and wp_enqueue_script work

WordPress loads styles and scripts in two steps:

1) Registration + enqueue (what you do in PHP)
– You register a script/style and enqueue it using WordPress functions.
– Common hooks:
– wp_enqueue_scripts (front end): enqueue scripts/styles for the theme and plugins.
– admin_enqueue_scripts (wp-admin): enqueue for specific admin screens.
– login_enqueue_scripts (login screen): enqueue for wp-login.php.

2) Output (what WordPress prints into the page)
– WordPress prints the enqueued styles and scripts into the HTML at the proper places, using theme hooks:
– wp_head: prints styles and any head scripts (e.g., those with $in_footer = false).
– wp_footer: prints scripts that were enqueued for the footer (those with $in_footer = true).

In practice, you should enqueue on the correct action, and let WordPress output them on wp_head/wp_footer. Example:

Register and enqueue a script

function myplugin_enqueue_assets() {
wp_register_script(
‘myplugin-frontend’,
plugins_url(‘dist/myplugin.js’, FILE),
array(‘jquery’),
‘1.0.0’,
true // load in footer
);
wp_enqueue_script(‘myplugin-frontend’);
}
add_action(‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘myplugin_enqueue_assets’);
What gets printed where
- Because $in_footer = true, the script tag is printed near the end of the page when the theme calls wp_footer().
- If $in_footer = false (default), it will be printed in the when the theme calls wp_head().

How this plugin uses these hooks
– For the Cookie Consent Widget, you can choose between:
– Auto-embed: The plugin hooks into wp_head very early to print the consent script as high as possible in the for best consent enforcement. This is intentional because consent tools must run before other scripts.
– Manual embed: You paste the provided