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Cookie Consent documentation

Setting it up, and how each part works: 19 sections, free to read before you buy.

  1. Before anything elseThis plugin is a tool, not legal advice.
  2. Getting startedInstall, activate, and enter your licence key under Cookie Consent → Licence.
  3. The part that makes it differentMost consent banners ask a question and change nothing.
  4. What is held backCookie Consent → What is held back.
  5. The categoriesFour, and they are the four everybody else uses, because a visitor who has seen a hundred banners already knows what they mean: Necessary — signing in, the basket, and the…
  6. Asking againSomebody who has answered is not asked again until their answer runs out (Settings → Remember an answer for), with two exceptions.
  7. The bannerCookie Consent → The banner.
  8. Other plugins on your site (WP Consent API)WP Consent API is a free plugin on wordpress.org that other plugins read before they set a cookie: WooCommerce's order attribution, Google's Site Kit (for its consent…
  9. The recordCookie Consent → Record.
  10. Browsers that have already refusedA browser sending Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track has answered.
  11. Google Consent ModeCookie Consent sends Google Consent Mode signals: all denied before a visitor answers, then updated to match the answer the moment it is given.
  12. Microsoft Advertising and ClarityMicrosoft asks for a consent signal from both of its tags for visitors in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland: Microsoft Advertising's UET tag since 2025 and Clarity since 31…
  13. Google Tag ManagerGoogle Tag Manager is held back as Measurement, like Google Analytics.
  14. From the command linewp cookie-consent scan wp cookie-consent scan --format=csv wp cookie-consent status wp cookie-consent export > consent-record.csv scan prints the services it found, then a…
  15. Caching, and other pluginsIt is built for a cached site: the HTML is the same for everybody and the browser does the rest.
  16. Read again every monthSites change without telling their consent tool: a plugin update adds a pixel, somebody pastes a chat widget into the footer.
  17. Moving your set-up to another siteSettings → Import / Export.
  18. MultisiteNetwork-activate it and every site is set up, including sites added later.
  19. UninstallingDeactivating never deletes anything.

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