Title: Age Verification for WooCommerce – Gatemi Author: gatemi Published: October 15, 2026 Last modified: October 15, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/gatemi-age-verification/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=3747789) ![](https://ps.w.org/gatemi-age-verification/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3747789) # Age Verification for WooCommerce – Gatemi By [gatemi](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gatemi/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/gatemi-age-verification.1.0.0.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gatemi-age-verification/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gatemi-age-verification/#reviews) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gatemi-age-verification/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gatemi-age-verification/) ## Description Ask a visitor to confirm their age, for the whole site, for every shop page, or only for the products that are actually restricted — and then do something about the answer. **The purchase is refused, not just covered.** An overlay is one browser-devtools panel away, and `?add-to-cart=123` never sees it at all, so the order arrives anyway for exactly the product a shop is not allowed to sell to whoever placed it. Here a restricted product is **not purchasable** as far as WooCommerce is concerned, adding it is refused with a message the shopper reads, and a basket already holding one cannot be paid for. That one filter covers the block cart and checkout and the Store API too. **Nobody’s basket is emptied.** Somebody who confirms their age finds their shopping exactly where they left it. **It works with a page cache, and without JavaScript.** The gate is server-rendered as an ordinary form, so it is there before a script has run. Because a confirmation is a fact about one visitor and a cache cannot know it, the markup is identical for everybody and a five-line snippet in the head reads the cookie and hides a gate that is already cleared — rather than removing it after the page has painted, which is why so many age gates flash on every page for somebody who confirmed weeks ago. **Search engines are never gated.** A shop that age-gates its crawler disappears from search results within a fortnight, and finds out from its traffic rather than from its plugin. #### What you get * A gate for the whole site, every shop page, or only restricted products * Any product set to always ask, or never ask, on the product itself — because one restricted item among a hundred ordinary ones is the common case * One minimum age for the store * Refused add-to-cart, blocked checkout, and a basket that is never emptied * Search engines exempt, in every scope * No JavaScript beyond the five-line no-flash snippet #### The full edition [Gatemi Age Verification for WooCommerce](https://gatemi.com/plugins/age-verification-for-woocommerce/) is a separate plugin, sold on gatemi.com, that adds a **date-of-birth gate checked on the server, restricted categories with sub-categories included and an age of their own, a minimum age per product, a confirmation tick box at the checkout in your own words, how long a confirmation is remembered, and your own wording throughout. Both editions store everything the same way, so upgrading keeps your configuration and a confirmation a visitor has already given. ### External services None. This plugin makes no request anywhere. ## Screenshots [⌊The settings screen: whether the gate is on, where it appears, and the store-wide minimum age.⌉⌊The settings screen: whether the gate is on, where it appears, and the store-wide minimum age.⌉[ The settings screen: whether the gate is on, where it appears, and the store-wide minimum age. [⌊The gate on a restricted product, before a visitor has confirmed their age.⌉⌊The gate on a restricted product, before a visitor has confirmed their age.⌉[ The gate on a restricted product, before a visitor has confirmed their age. [⌊The per-product switch in WooCommerce's own Product data box — always ask, never ask, or follow the store.⌉⌊The per-product switch in WooCommerce's own Product data box — always ask, never ask, or follow the store.⌉[ The per-product switch in WooCommerce’s own Product data box — always ask, never ask, or follow the store. ## FAQ ### Can somebody still buy by crafting a URL? No. The product is not purchasable, and add-to-cart is refused server-side. ### Is this an identity check? No, and no age gate is. It records what a visitor declared and when — which is what a shop is normally asked to be able to show. ### Does it work with a page cache? Yes. Every visitor is served the same markup, and the head snippet decides whether the gate is shown before the page paints. ### Will it hide my shop from Google? No. Search engines are exempt, in every scope. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Age Verification for WooCommerce – Gatemi” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ gatemi ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gatemi/) [Translate “Age Verification for WooCommerce – Gatemi” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/gatemi-age-verification) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gatemi-age-verification/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/gatemi-age-verification/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/gatemi-age-verification/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/gatemi-age-verification/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.0.0 * First release: the age gate for the whole site, every shop page or only restricted products, with the one-tap confirmation enforced on the server — the product not purchasable, the add-to-cart refused with the age named, and a basket holding one not payable — the no-flash head snippet so a cached page never shows a cleared gate, the crawler exemption, a per-product always-ask or never-ask switch, and the age, wording and moment recorded on the order. ## Meta * Version **1.0.0** * Last updated **4 days ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 6.4 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.1.3** * PHP version ** 7.4 or higher ** * Tags * [age gate](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/age-gate/)[age verification](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/age-verification/) [compliance](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/compliance/)[restricted products](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/restricted-products/) [woocommerce](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/woocommerce/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gatemi-age-verification/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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