Cookie Shield

Cookie Consent Banner that’s lightweight, powerfull and doesn’t require monthly subscription.

Navigating privacy regulations doesn’t have to be a burden. Cookie Shield simplifies cookie consent management for WordPress, keeping your site fully compliant with GDPR and CCPA while maintaining a seamless user experience and high-speed performance.”

Powering 98+ of websites... and counting

Key Features

Consent Control

Granular consent controls for five cookie categories: Necessary, Functional, Analytical, Marketing, and Third-Party. Rich-text banner editor — embed links to your Cookie Policy directly in the banner text

Viewer Friendly

Slide-up consent banner with Accept All, Reject All, and Manage Preferences options. Fully translatable (i18n-ready)

Customize without code

Built-in registry of 60+ well-known cookies (Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, Hotjar, LinkedIn, YouTube, and more) with wildcard pattern matching. Admin Cookie Registry page — view all known cookies by category and add your own

Consent Re-call

[cookie_shield_preferences] shortcode to let visitors re-open the consent banner at any time

Full Control

Real script blocking — third-party scripts are prevented from loading until consent is granted. Automatic cookie deletion for rejected categories

Easy Maintenance

Detailed consent logging with CSV export and date-range archiving to keep your database lean

Free

Consent Banner — clean, accessible banner with Accept All, Reject All, and granular Manage Preferences options
Five Consent Categories — Necessary, Functional, Analytics, Marketing, and Third Party
Synchronous Cookie Blocker — blocks `<script src>` and `<iframe src>` elements in `<head>` at priority 1, with a MutationObserver for dynamically injected elements
Cookie Registry — maintain a full catalogue of cookies with category, provider, purpose, and expiry information
Consent Logging — every consent choice recorded with session token (no IP addresses — GDPR compliant), user agent, and per-category choices
Multilanguage — all visitor-facing strings editable per locale; auto-detects WPML and Polylang
GTM DataLayer Bridge — pushes `cs_consent_update` events to `window.dataLayer`
Microsoft UET Consent Mode — outputs `window.uetq` consent defaults before the UET tag fires
Reopen Shortcode — `` places a button anywhere to reopen the banner
Light and Dark themes – bottom bar, top bar, or centred modal positions

Pro

Consent Banner — clean, accessible banner with Accept All, Reject All, and granular Manage Preferences options
Five Consent Categories — Necessary, Functional, Analytics, Marketing, and Third Party
Synchronous Cookie Blocker — blocks `<script src>` and `<iframe src>` elements in `<head>` at priority 1, with a MutationObserver for dynamically injected elements
Cookie Registry — maintain a full catalogue of cookies with category, provider, purpose, and expiry information
Consent Logging — every consent choice recorded with session token (no IP addresses — GDPR compliant), user agent, and per-category choices
Multilanguage — all visitor-facing strings editable per locale; auto-detects WPML and Polylang
GTM DataLayer Bridge — pushes `cs_consent_update` events to `window.dataLayer`
Microsoft UET Consent Mode — outputs `window.uetq` consent defaults before the UET tag fires
Reopen Shortcode — `` places a button anywhere to reopen the banner
Light and Dark themes – bottom bar, top bar, or centred modal positions
Google Consent Mode v2 — synchronous GCM defaults in `<head>` before GA4 or GTM fires
Archive Consent Logs — soft-archive records older than 90 days
Export Consent Logs — download the full audit trail as CSV
Inline Shortcodes — `[cookie_shield_banner]` and `[cookie_shield_preferences]`

We bring innovation and creative freedom to the WordPress ecosystem

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Top WordPress theme because not only does it look great, but it's also optimized for performance.

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Chris Greenfelder

Founder WPBiz

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