KByte Cookie Consent Plugin for WordPress

KByte Cookie Consent adds a mobile-friendly cookie banner, category preferences and configurable service blocking to WordPress. Buy version 1.2.1 for £24.95 as an installable ZIP download. The plugin requires no subscription or external scanner account.

Give visitors clear options to accept, reject or customise optional cookies. Necessary services remain enabled; analytics, marketing and functional categories start off until accepted. Visitors can reopen their preferences and withdraw consent.

Colours, fonts and text size inherit your theme by default. Choose custom colours, an existing font stack or a 14–22 px text size when you need a different appearance. Configure panel and button borders, corner radius, spacing, width and banner position.

Add separate privacy-policy and cookie-policy links with editable labels. Seven settings tabs organise banner behaviour, design, categories, service rules, auto-detection, data and integrations.

Run a public-page scan of up to five same-origin URLs, or schedule daily or weekly scans using WordPress cron. The scanner inspects public HTML, response cookie names and external resource hostnames. An authenticated administrator can also observe browser-readable cookie names and resource hosts.

Built-in recognition covers services including Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google Ads, Meta Pixel, Microsoft Clarity, Hotjar, TikTok Pixel, LinkedIn Insight, YouTube, Vimeo, Google Maps and reCAPTCHA. Review findings before adding or enabling rules; scans do not silently change your configuration.

Server scans do not execute JavaScript. Browser observation cannot see HttpOnly cookies or third-party cookie stores. Detection is a review aid, not proof that every cookie or tracker has been found.

Configured rules defer matching scripts and iframes until their required categories are accepted. The plugin handles supported server-rendered tags and common dynamic insertion methods. You can add service names, category requirements, URL fragments, inline-code patterns and cookie-name patterns.

Optional Google Consent Mode v2 uses basic mode: recognised Google tags wait for permission. Analytics-only consent leaves advertising signals denied. An optional Global Privacy Control setting keeps marketing off when that browser signal is present.

This is not a Google-certified consent management platform and does not implement IAB TCF. It cannot block every arbitrary tracking request, proprietary loader or server-side tracker. Check your actual plugins, tag containers, forms and network activity after configuration.

Set the consent duration to 1–365 days, or choose 0 for a browser-session cookie. Session mode remembers the choice while visitors browse the site and does not retain the choice in localStorage. A new browser session asks again; browsers that restore session cookies can also restore that choice. Returning within the same browser session does not automatically show the banner again.

Increase the consent revision when a material change requires a fresh choice. Withdrawal updates supported consent signals, attempts to remove accessible matching cookies and reloads the page.

• KByte Cookie Consent 1.2.1 installable ZIP, including PHP, JavaScript, CSS, documentation and GPL licence.
• Requires WordPress 6.6 or later and PHP 8.1 or later; package marked tested up to WordPress 7.1.
• Upload through Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, activate, then open Settings → Cookie Consent.
• Clear page/CDN caches and exclude the consent bootstrap from delayed or reordered JavaScript.
• Shortcodes for a preferences button and configured service inventory, plus a JavaScript API for custom integrations.

No Elementor subscription, premium font, paid scanner service or external font service is required. The supplied version has no plugin subscription fee. Installation and future service work are not included in the £24.95 product price. Review the digital-download terms before purchase.

Use one consent solution at a time and test after changing your theme, caching, tracking or form plugins. A cookie-name rule alone cannot prevent code from creating cookies. The plugin supplies consent controls, not legal advice or a guarantee of compliance; you remain responsible for the services and policy used on your website. It does not provide an IP-based consent log or proof-of-consent archive.

Need help with your setup? Explore WordPress support, contact KByte or browse the theme and plugin shop.