Description
Consentico is a lightweight cookie consent bar plugin for WordPress. It helps you comply with GDPR and CCPA by informing visitors about cookie usage and collecting their consent — simply and beautifully.
✨ Features
- Accept & Decline buttons — give visitors full control
- Privacy Policy link — link directly from the notice
- Remembers choice — stored in browser cookie (30 days to 1 year)
- Accept/Decline statistics — track how many visitors accept vs decline in the admin panel
- Google Analytics consent — optionally block GA until user accepts
- Slide or fade animation — smooth entrance effect
- Top or bottom position — your choice
- Fully customizable — colors, text, buttons all configurable
- Responsive — looks great on all screen sizes
- Lightweight — under 5KB total (CSS + JS)
- No jQuery — pure vanilla JavaScript
- GDPR & CCPA friendly
- WordPress 6.9 compatible
- PHP 8.x compatible
⚙️ Admin Settings
All settings under Settings Consentico:
- General — Enable/disable, position (top/bottom), cookie expiry, animation, show on pages
- Content — Cookie message, accept/decline text, privacy policy link
- Design — Background color, text color, opacity, accept button color, border radius
- Compliance — Google Analytics ID, block GA until accepted
📊 Statistics
The admin panel shows real-time accept/decline counts and acceptance rate. Reset anytime with one click.
External Services
This plugin optionally connects to Google’s servers to load Google Analytics when a GA4 Measurement ID is configured by the site administrator.
Google Analytics / Google Tag Manager
- What it does: Loads the Google Analytics tracking script from
https://www.googletagmanager.com. - When it connects: Only when a GA4 Measurement ID is entered in Settings Consentico Compliance. If “Block Until Accepted” is enabled, the script loads only after the visitor clicks Accept.
- What data is sent: Standard analytics data (page views, events) as defined by Google Analytics. No additional data is sent by this plugin.
- Google’s Terms of Service: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/
- Google’s Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
If no GA ID is configured, no connection to Google’s servers is made by this plugin.
Screenshots
Admin Settings — General tab 
Admin Settings — Design tab 
Frontend — Cookie bar bottom position (dark theme) 
Frontend — Cookie bar top position (light theme)
Installation
- Upload the plugin to
/wp-content/plugins/consentico/or install via Plugins Add New. - Activate the plugin.
- The cookie bar appears automatically on your site.
- Go to Settings Consentico to customize.
FAQ
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Does it work without any configuration?
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Yes! The cookie bar appears automatically with sensible defaults as soon as you activate the plugin.
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Is it GDPR compliant?
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Consentico provides the UI for cookie consent. For full GDPR compliance, you should also have a Privacy Policy page and use the Google Analytics blocking feature to prevent tracking before consent.
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Does it use jQuery?
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No. Consentico uses pure vanilla JavaScript — no jQuery dependency, faster loading.
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How is the user’s choice stored?
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The choice is stored in a browser cookie for the duration you set (default 1 year). The bar won’t appear again until the cookie expires.
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Can I block Google Analytics until the user accepts?
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Yes. Enter your GA4 Measurement ID and enable “Block Until Accepted” in the Compliance tab.
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Contributors & Developers
“Consentico” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.0.0
- Initial release
- Accept and decline buttons
- Privacy policy link
- Cookie expiry control (30/60/90/180/365 days)
- Slide and fade animations
- Top and bottom position
- Show on all / front page / specific pages
- Google Analytics consent management
- Accept/decline statistics with reset
- Responsive design
- Pure vanilla JS — no jQuery