Consentico

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.