Thank you so much for the kind words — messages like yours make my day, and they’re a big part of why I keep pushing updates.
To answer your question directly: FAZ Cookie Manager is free, and it will always stay free — both free as in freedom and free as in beer. There’s no paid tier coming, no “pro” version locked behind a subscription, no feature held hostage. That’s a deliberate choice.
Here’s the honest backstory: I built this plugin because I needed it. I manage and maintain websites for clients too, and I got tired of the WordPress ecosystem being flooded with plugins that are “free” in name only — the ones that nag you, cripple core functionality until you upgrade, or quietly phone home. So I wrote what I wished existed. As long as I’m working in this field, I’ll need this plugin myself, which means it will keep getting updates and security patches — not out of charity, but because my own clients depend on it. You’re essentially riding along on maintenance I’d be doing anyway.
That said, if you’d like to support the work, here are the ways that genuinely help:
Buy me a coffee — if you want to throw something my way, this is the place: https://buymeacoffee.com/fabiodalez. Zero pressure, completely optional, and it absolutely won’t change what you get from the plugin.
Contribute on GitHub — I’m a solo developer, and that’s the real bottleneck. Bug reports, pull requests, feature ideas, code reviews, documentation improvements — all of it is hugely valuable. If you or anyone on your team has the bandwidth to dig in, you’d be very welcome: https://github.com/fabiodalez-dev/FAZ-Cookie-Manager
Help with the Open Cookie Database — this is the part that scales beyond me. The plugin is only as good as the cookie data behind it, and I maintain an open database here: https://github.com/fabiodalez-dev/Open-Cookie-Database. Adding cookies you encounter on client sites, correcting categorizations, or expanding descriptions benefits every user of the plugin (and anyone else who uses the database). It’s probably the single highest-leverage contribution someone managing multiple sites can make.
The bigger goal — and I’ll be a bit idealistic for a second — is to help free WordPress from the fake-free plugin economy. The more people who treat tools like this as a commons worth tending rather than a product to consume, the better the whole ecosystem gets.
Thanks again for reaching out, and seriously, glad it’s working well for you and your clients.
Cheers,
Fabio
That’s just awesome.
Buying you a coffee now. 🙂
And really appreciate your motives with the plugin. That said, if you ever need to charge for agencies, I’d totally support that decision.
I’ll also try and contribute to the Open Cookie Database when I can.
Glad to hear it!
If you ever feel like leaving a review, that would genuinely be the best thing you could do for the project — it helps people find it.
I’m closing this one!
