Warder Cookie Consent puts a consent banner on your WordPress site and holds your analytics scripts until a visitor opts in. Everything runs from your own server: there is no account to create, no external service to call, and no paid tier.

It is built on the open-source CookieConsent v3 library, and adds a WordPress settings screen, cookie defaults for WordPress and WooCommerce, and automatic blocking for scripts that would otherwise set cookies before consent.

Why you might pick this one

Nothing leaves your server. The plugin makes no external HTTP requests — no CDN, no consent API, no phone-home. The script is served from your own domain.
No account, no upsell, no expiry. Every feature is in the free plugin. There is no pro tier, no per-domain limit and no trial.
Small. One deferred script of about 18KB gzipped, plus a little inline CSS for the floating button.
Opt in, not opt out. Non-necessary categories are unticked until the visitor chooses. That is what GDPR expects, and the plugin will not silently drift to something weaker.
Scripts are actually blocked. Known cookie-setting scripts are rewritten to type="text/plain" before the browser can run them, rather than being cleaned up afterwards.

What it does

A consent banner, and a preferences modal with a toggle per category
Cookie categories you can add, rename and describe from the settings screen
A cookie list per category, matched by exact name or by regular expression
Automatic cookie clearing when a visitor withdraws consent for a category
A floating cookie button, in any of four corners, so visitors can change their mind later
Blocking for WooCommerce order attribution and SourceBuster out of the box
Blocking for any script you mark with data-category, or register through a filter
Editable banner title, description, button labels and privacy-policy link
Interface strings in English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish and Italian
Compatibility with page caching — the settings version is part of the script URL

What ships pre-configured

Strictly Necessary, always on: cc_cookie, wordpress_logged_in_*, wordpress_sec_*, wordpress_test_cookie, wp-settings-*, wp_woocommerce_session_*, woocommerce_cart_hash, woocommerce_items_in_cart, woocommerce_recently_viewed, PHPSESSID.

Performance and Analytics, off until accepted: Google Analytics (_ga*, _gid, _gat), Matomo (_pk_*, mtm_*) and SourceBuster (sbjs_*).

What it does not do

Stated plainly, so you can rule it out in thirty seconds rather than after installing:

No consent log. The visitor’s choice is stored in their own browser, in cc_cookie. Nothing is written to your database, so there is no proof-of-consent export.
No Google Consent Mode v2 signals.
No automatic cookie scanner. You list the cookies you want managed.
No CCPA “Do Not Sell” flow.
No automatic translation. Six languages ship for the interface strings. The text you write yourself — title, description, button labels, category names — is stored once, in whatever language you type it.

A note on compliance

This plugin gives you the mechanism: blocking before consent, granular categories, a choice the visitor controls, and a way to revisit it. Whether your site is compliant depends on how you configure it and what your site actually loads. It is a tool, not legal advice.

For developers

Hold any script until a category is accepted:

<script type="text/plain" data-category="analytics" src="..."></script>

Or block a script that another plugin registered, by handle:

add_filter( 'warder_blocked_scripts', function ( $scripts ) {
    $scripts['my-analytics-handle'] = 'analytics';
    return $scripts;
} );

Source Code

This plugin ships no obfuscated or minified-only code. The only compiled asset is dist/cookieconsent.bundle.js, bundled from human-readable source with webpack. Its first lines are a comment banner pointing back to the source. The uncompressed source (src/index.js and webpack.config.js) is included in the plugin download, and the full development repository is public:

https://github.com/imagewize/warder-cookie-consent

src/index.js imports the [vanilla-cookieconsent v3](https://github.com/orestbida/cookieconsent) library. To build from source: run `npm install`, then `npx webpack` (or `npx webpack --watch` during development).

Warder Cookie Consent – GDPR Cookie Banner