Need recommendations for Cookie Consent Plugins for WordPress

I'm getting pretty pissed with everything being subscription models nowadays. Even if I wanted to, I can't buy any good plugins with lifetime licenses.

I've been Googling for hours trying to find good WP plugins for cookie consent management, but all I can find are these ridiculous subscription models that want me to pay $50/mo. per domain only for the sake of serving a very simple cookie consent.

The best one I've been able to find is Pressidium Cookie Consent. That combined with a cookie scanner and then manually adding all the cookies to the plugin.

I manage a lot of sites, and would rather not do these kinds of things manually, and not pay ridiculous amounts for simple consent pop-ups.

Would love to hear some recommendations.

Looking for a solution for this as well. I'll let you know if I find something worthwhile

Personally, I've fallen for this GDPR bullshit.
The regulatory authority in my country recommended a WordPress plugin, GDPR compatible.
Except they withdrew the recommendation because the fucking plugin wasn't GDPR-compatible.
So, on one of my sites, which is not yet monetized, I put a text widget saying "This site collects personal login information. The regulator gives no recommendation as to which extension to use and the site is not yet monetized with AdSense - the latter provides its own warning.
So please be aware that cookies are collected and to find out more, go to the personal data page."
And basta.

I've been using the Beautiful and responsive cookie consent for about 6 months. I've had no issue with it. They offer a freemium version that gives a wide array of features straight out of the box.

There is a preview banner setting that allows me to see the cookie banner in the front end while being able to delete it with every admin page view.
You can prevent premature cookie deletion and Improve banner loading speed.

I've been able to play with the appearance, customizing the color and look to go with my site, as well as tamper with the compliance and behavior.
You have the option to set Google content mode, cookie settings, as well as block services.

It's one of the better cookie consent plugins I've been using for all of my clients because we don't have to commit to a subscription immediately. You can get pretty far with just the basic features.

For all our blogs and for our clients, we use "Cookie Yes"

tattooedbuddha said:

Looking for a solution for this as well. I'll let you know if I find something worthwhile

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How bad is it if your site does not have such a consent option?
Im curious what are the consequences for the site.

Pam Danny said:

For all our blogs and for our clients, we use "Cookie Yes"

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I also use this plugin. It works well. But on one of my sites, the plugin has old design. On the other site of mine which is recently created, the plugin has the latest design created by "Cookie Yes". Although both plugin have the same version. I suggest you to use "Cookie Yes" for wordpress.

Hire a wordpress developer

tattooedbuddha said:

Looking for a solution for this as well. I'll let you know if I find something worthwhile

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Sounds good.
I've not really been able to find a solution in days, so I'm going to have to settle for the Pressidium Cookie Consent. That requires manually adding the cookies and making sure that they are actually blocked before consent. Quite a lot of work, but I'm probably going to develop some scripts to ease with that in the future.

I'm scanning the cookies with a free trial of CookieYes and then importing the cookies to Pressidium. cookiedatabase.org for the cookies that CookieYes doesn't recognize.

Alpha1404 said:

Personally, I've fallen for this GDPR bullshit.
The regulatory authority in my country recommended a WordPress plugin, GDPR compatible.
Except they withdrew the recommendation because the fucking plugin wasn't GDPR-compatible.
So, on one of my sites, which is not yet monetized, I put a text widget saying "This site collects personal login information. The regulator gives no recommendation as to which extension to use and the site is not yet monetized with AdSense - the latter provides its own warning.
So please be aware that cookies are collected and to find out more, go to the personal data page."
And basta.

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You're sooner or later going to find yourselves with some hefty fines if you don't ask for consent. Declaring cookie usage is not enough.

Pam Danny said:

For all our blogs and for our clients, we use "Cookie Yes"

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gerade said:

I also use this plugin. It works well. But on one of my sites, the plugin has old design. On the other site of mine which is recently created, the plugin has the latest design created by "Cookie Yes". Although both plugin have the same version. I suggest you to use "Cookie Yes" for wordpress.

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CookieYes free, basic and pro plans are surely a good option for most sites, but I work mainly with people/businesses that want professionalism to the maximum. I need my cookie consent to be fully branded, and there's no way I'm paying $40/mo. per domain to remove a small logo from a cookie consent pop-up.

Stifmeister said:

How bad is it if your site does not have such a consent option?
Im curious what are the consequences for the site.

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If you serve to visitors based in the EU, it's very bad.
EU has very strict privacy policies, and if you don't comply, you'll easily find yourself with fines in the tens of thousands.
There have been cases where businesses have been fined for even using Google Fonts through Google's CDN.

Juhku said:

You're sooner or later going to find yourselves with some hefty fines if you don't ask for consent. Declaring cookie usage is not enough.

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So, I don't know how it works at home (in your country) but in mine, the authority in charge of GDPR compliance... how can I put it... they're brave.

They're pretty, they look good in the landscape, but that's about it.

Incidentally, it's part of their mission to guide users towards an GDPR-compliant solution. Which they don't do.

So, if ever, by the merest chance, I have a complaint, she comes to see me and condemns me, I'll turn against her because she hasn't respected the mission contained in the law.

I might as well tell you that I'm ultra-serene, especially as the site where I made that joke isn't monetized.

By the way, I remind you that the GDPR doesn't impose a plugin or anything else. It requires you to provide information about what data is circulating and where. I do this by referring the reader to the dedicated page.

The cases you mention (conviction for Google Fonts), I know about them and don't forget to specify a detail: the authorities that have convicted, are those that finance themselves on the fines they impose.

The more they punish, the more money they have for next year.

This is not the case in my country.

You're more than free to do whatever you please in your country, but please don't misinform people, especially when that misinformation could land someone with hefty fines.

Alpha1404 said:

I might as well tell you that I'm ultra-serene, especially as the site where I made that joke isn't monetized.

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The fact that you aren't monetizing your site doesn't matter. You might still be processing PII illegally with other services.

Alpha1404 said:

By the way, I remind you that the GDPR doesn't impose a plugin or anything else. It requires you to provide information about what data is circulating and where. I do this by referring the reader to the dedicated page.

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If you're processing PII, you very much have to get consent for it. Declaration only isn't enough.

Alpha1404 said:

I know about them and don't forget to specify a detail: the authorities that have convicted, are those that finance themselves on the fines they impose.

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The fines are paid to the plaintiff, the person whose PII was illegally sent.

I'm not interested in debating this with you any further. Just don't spread misinformation.

Pam Danny said:

For all our blogs and for our clients, we use "Cookie Yes"

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Using paid or free?

jhangomouse said:

Using paid or free?

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Free

Not in Spain: the regulatory authority keeps the money from fines to finance itself.

And in my country, fines are not paid to complainants. They go to the state.

You're confusing administrative sanctions with civil damages. And I'm the one spreading misinformation?

A complainant may eventually ask for damages. Spoiler alert: two cases have been reported, and not even in my country, but in Germany. Both claims were rejected because the damage was insufficiently characterized.

In a recent CJEU case, the court held that the mere breach of the GDPR did not give rise to a right to compensation and that it was up to each Member State to lay down the methods of action designed to safeguard the rights of individuals and the criteria for determining the extent of compensation, subject to compliance with the principles of equivalence and effectiveness.

I know: my official job is to know what's in the law.

You ask for a plugin, I tell you the approach I've adopted, which complies with the law in my country. Then you lecture me, saying I'm liable to a fine. I know what I'm doing.

And I also know that in my country, when you don't monetize, when you're small, you risk absolutely nothing if you don't display an "accept cookies" banner.

In my country, the personal data regulator didn't even react when a file was put on sale (not me!) with the full contact details of police officers.

So, as a small beauty products site, believe me, I've got a long way to go before the regulator takes an interest in my case.

And in a pinch, instead of asking us, why don't you contact your country's personal data regulatory authority and ask them which plug-in they recommend for sites to comply?
After all, it's part of their job.

Or go to any official website in your country or your customers' countries, look for one that runs on WordPress and see what kind of cookie plugin they have.

Have you looked at this free plugin, seems to cover it?

https://wplegalpages.com/free-wp-cookie-consent-plugin/

RoiBox said:

Have you looked at this free plugin, seems to cover it?

https://wplegalpages.com/free-wp-cookie-consent-plugin/

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Thanks for the recommendation

Had a look at it. The free version unfortunately doesn't cover as much as Pressidium does, but the subscription seems very cheap compared to other alternatives. I'll have to do some testing and decide between this and Pressidium. Thanks.

Alpha1404 said:

Not in Spain

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Again, like I said, you're more than free to do whatever you please in your country.
This is however an international forum, and not everyone is from Spain. The case in Spain isn't the case for most of the people who use this forum.
I would bet that most of the users here are located outside of Europe, and those who administer GDPR fees to offenders outside of the EU aren't as reliant as the authorities in Spain.

I really don't care to debate any further. Can we just move on and continue with our day.

Juhku said:

Thanks for the recommendation

Had a look at it. The free version unfortunately doesn't cover as much as Pressidium does, but the subscription seems very cheap compared to other alternatives. I'll have to do some testing and decide between this and Pressidium. Thanks.


Again, like I said, you're more than free to do whatever you please in your country.
This is however an international forum, and not everyone is from Spain. The case in Spain isn't the case for most of the people who use this forum.
I would bet that most of the users here are located outside of Europe, and those who administer GDPR fees to offenders outside of the EU aren't as reliant as the authorities in Spain.

I really don't care to debate any further. Can we just move on and continue with our day.

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What about this one?

https://codecanyon.net/item/cookie-plus-gdpr-cookie-consent-solution-for-wordpress/21984547
I can upload it for free here if you like. No subscription is required to use this plugin.

Deleted member 752298 said:

What about this one?

https://codecanyon.net/item/cookie-plus-gdpr-cookie-consent-solution-for-wordpress/21984547
I can upload it for free here if you like. No subscription is required to use this plugin.

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Can you please upload it?

Deleted member 752298 said:

What about this one?

https://codecanyon.net/item/cookie-plus-gdpr-cookie-consent-solution-for-wordpress/21984547
I can upload it for free here if you like. No subscription is required to use this plugin.

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Thanks for the recommendation, though I'm looking for a solution to use for my clients' sites, and I will only use plugins that are completely free or I will personally purchase the license. Can't really use nulled plugins on clients' sites.
I appreciate the help though.

Do i need cookie plugin for 99 % us traffic?