Complianz GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent Banner vs WP Consent API

Complianz is a Google-certified CMP (Consent Management Platform) for automated cookie notice and consent management. Set up a fully customizable cookie banner, auto-scan your cookies, generate customized cookie policy, and align with GDPR, ePrivacy, DSGVO, TTDSG, LGPD (Brasil), POPIA, APA, RGPD, CCPA/CPRA, PIPEDA (Canada), and other privacy laws. Trusted by 1,000,000+ users across 15+ languages, 10+ years of WordPress experience. Wizard-based easy setup; no coding required. Why millions of websites choose Complianz Fast setup: The guided setup walks you through each step from start to finish. You won’t need any legal or coding knowledge to get started. Automatic cookie scan: Complianz scans your site and shows you exactly which cookies and scripts are active, so you’re not left guessing. Work with the tools you already use: Connect with tools like Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics. No need to rethink your existing setup. Transparent Plans: Complianz free or paid plans don’t have monthly page views or sessions limits, so you can focus on your traffic growth. Features Answer a few questions in the Wizard, scan your WordPress site, and in a few minutes, Complianz sets up your consent settings based on your setup and location. It automatically configures consent settings based on your plugins, services, and region. Consent Management Auto-Configuration Wizard: Automatically sets up your site based on wizard questions, website scan (up to 50 posts), and dedicated plugin integrations. Third-Party Cookie Blocking: Blocks cookies from Google Maps, Facebook, Instagram, AdSense, HubSpot, reCAPTCHA, Twitter, ActiveCampaign, and more. Automatic Plugin & Service Detection: Custom integrations for plugins, themes, and services are detected automatically. Blocks iFrames, like YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion embedded videos and Social iFrames e.g. Instagram, Facebook et al. Placeholder Support: Shows video stills and individual placeholders for each blocked iFrame or social service. Script Center: Control scripts, iFrames, and plugins per category or service, — with dependency functionality and placeholder management. Proof of Consent: Records user consent following GDPR data minimization guidelines for audit-ready compliance. Periodic Cookie Scan: Automatically scans for changes in cookies, plugins, and third-party services on your site. Auto-Detection: Detects whether your site requires a cookie banner based on your current setup. Analytics Anonymization: Automatically anonymizes personal data for integrated statistics tools when needed. Cookie Consent Notice Region-Specific Cookie Banner: Display a cookie consent banner tailored to the EU, UK, US, Australia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, — or use one banner worldwide. Subregion Consent Rules: Configure consent per subregion, such as TTDSG/DSGVO for Germany, CNIL for France, or CCPA/CPRA/CTDPA for specific US states. Banner Templates: Choose from multiple layouts: Cookie Wall, Accept/Dismiss, Consent per Category, or Consent per Service. Banner Templates include: GDPR-friendly Cookie Wall – Accept/Dismiss – Consent per Category – Consent per Service Legislation-Based Dismiss Options: Enable dismiss on scroll, time on page, or both and automatically adapt based on your applicable privacy law. Custom CSS & Templates: Fully customizable cookie banner design with your own CSS and templates. WCAG 2.1 AA & ADA Compliant: Cookie banners and legal documents designed following accessibility best practices. No jQuery Dependency: Fast and lightweight. No jQuery required. Privacy Laws & Guidelines Global Privacy Law Support: Ready for GDPR, ePrivacy, LGPD, DSGVO, CNIL, PECR, UK GDPR, UK DPA, CCPA, CPRA, COPPA, PIPEDA, CASL, POPIA, Australian Privacy Act, and the Brazilian General Data Protection Law. Regulation Differentiation: Distinguish between overlapping laws — GDPR vs. DSGVO/CNIL, CCPA vs. DNSMPI, or NRS 603A — based on your visitors’ location. Continuously Updated: Closely follows the latest developments in ePrivacy regulation, cookie law proposals, and global privacy legislation. Legal Documents Cookie Policy Generator: Generate a Cookie Policy with an easy wizard, drafted by an IT law firm. Do Not Sell My Personal Information: DNSMPI Page for CCPA/CPRA – if required. (Now called Opt-out Preferences.) Terms and Conditions are available in a separate plugin: Complianz – Terms and Conditions 250+ Service & Plugin Integrations Cookie Database Integration: Cookie Database Integration: Prefills cookie data from cookiedatabase.org, provides clear, transparent descriptions, and keeps everything continuously updated. WordPress Privacy Features: Export and erase personal data directly from your WordPress dashboard. Analytics & Tag Manager Support: Built-in support for Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Matomo, Matomo Tag Manager, Clicky, Yandex, Jetpack, and Burst Statistics. Cookie Categorization: Categorize cookies using Tag Manager or the built-in Script Center. Integration with the WP Consent API WP Consent API: Full integration with the WP Consent API for consent state sharing across plugins. Plugin Compatibility: Works with Gutenberg, Elementor, Divi, WPBakery, WooCommerce, Gravity Forms, WPForms, Contact Form 7, MonsterInsights, Forminator, HappyForms, Easy Digital Downloads, WP Google Maps, CAOS, and many more. Theme & Page Builder Tested: Tested with popular WordPress themes and page builders. Gutenberg Blocks: Includes native Gutenberg Blocks for easy content integration. Support Get help through the WordPress.org forum. You can check the documentation or browse existing threads or open a new one if you need more support. Share a clear description of your issue and the team will get back to you as soon as possible. Useful Links Support Forum Github MU Plugins Documentation Developer’s Guide Legal Definitions Translate Complianz Premium Features Go beyond the basics with the full website scan, advanced tools for legal documents, and premium support. Cookie Consent Notice Improve conversion with A/B testing: Test different cookie banners and measure which ones lead to higher consent rates. Consent Management Records of Consent: Keep records of your consent management changes and user’s consent registration. Integrates with Proof of Consent. Respects the Do Not Track settings and Global Privacy Controls in end-users’ browsers. Geo IP Cookie Consent: Display the correct Cookie notice based on IP location, but only if a banner is needed. Google Consent Mode: Use Consent Mode by Google with Google Tag Manager or Google Analytics to optimize ad performance with compliance. No further set-up needed. Integration with TCF v2.0: An IAB Europe Consent Framework for publishers. Registered CMP ID: 332 Data Request Forms and Registration Privacy Laws & Guidelines Simultaneously select USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa, Brazil and the EU as targeted regions with conditional Consent and dedicated Cookie Banners. Support for GDPR / ePrivacy – European Union with Extension for Switzerland. Support for USA / CCPA/CPRA/CPA/CTDPA/NRS 603A/UCPA/VCDPA Support for UK-GDPR / PECR and ICO Guidelines – United Kingdom. Support for PIPEDA and CASL – Canada. Support for Privacy Act 1988 & Australian Privacy Principles Support for POPIA, the South African Protection of Personal Information Act Supports The “Marco Civil” and the Brazilian General Data Protection Law (LGPD) Legal Documents Privacy statements (EU, CA, UK, AU, ZA, BR & USA). Cookie policy (EU, UK, CA, AU, ZA, BR & USA). Impressum (Germany & Austria) & Imprint for world wide use. Disclaimer Terms & Conditions Integration Processing agreements (EU, UK, CA, AU, ZA, BR & USA). Dataleak reporting tools (EU, UK, CA, AU, ZA, BR & USA). Supports CCPA Consent and Legal documents. COPPA ready with Children’s Privacy Policy (USA) Children’s Privacy Policy (UK,CA & AU) Support & Updates Premium Support from our amazing team. Premium updates, new languages, features, regions and more to create the Ultimate Privacy Suite for WordPress. About Complianz Check out other plugins developed by Really Simple Security as well: Really Simple Security Complianz is on GitHub as well! IMPORTANT! Complianz | GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent can help you meet compliance requirements, but the user must ensure that all requirements are met. Complianz provides your Cookie Policy with comprehensive cookie descriptions, supplied by cookiedatabase.org, operated by Complianz B.V. The plugin sends the results of Complianz’ local or advanced website scan to Cookiedatabase.org, for the sole purpose of providing you with accurate descriptions and keeping them up-to-date on a regular basis. The advanced website scan can be initialized after authentication and consent for security purposes. We collect for research purposes: Cookie names Domain that provides the cookie names Plugin list on the domain For more information: Cookiedatabase.org – Privacy Statement Cookiedatabase.org – Terms and Conditions Database Cookiedatabase.org – Terms of Use API For security purposes, we authenticate the advanced website scan with: Email address The advanced website scan collects public data from the user’s site, stores it for one hour, and then discards it without analysis. For more information: Advanced website scan Complianz.io – Privacy Statement Advanced website scan Complianz.io – Terms of Use API Contact us if you have any questions, issues, or suggestions. Complianz | GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent is developed by Complianz B.V..

WP Consent API is a plugin that standardizes the communication of accepted consent categories between plugins. It requires a cookie banner plugin and, at least, one other plugin that supports the WP Consent API. With this plugin, all supporting plugins can use the same set of methods to read and register the current consent category, allowing consent management plugins and other plugins to work together, improving compliance with privacy laws. WARNING: the plugin itself will not handle consent. It will show you how many plugins you have without Consent API support and will improve compliance on your site by ensuring smooth communication between cookie banner plugins and plugins that set cookies or track user data. What problem does this plugin solve? Currently, it is possible for a consent management plugin to block third-party services like Facebook, Google Maps, Twitter, etc. But if a WordPress plugin places a PHP cookie, a consent management plugin cannot prevent this. Secondly, some plugins integrate the tracking code on the clientside in javascript files that, when blocked, break the site. Or, if such a plugin’s javascript is minified, causing the URL to be unrecognizable and won’t get detected by an automatic blocking script. Lastly, the blocking approach requires a list of all types of URL’s that tracks data. A generic API where plugins adhere to can greatly facilitate a webmaster in getting a site compliant. Does usage of this API prevent third-party services from tracking user data? Primary this API is aimed at compliant first-party cookies or tracking by WordPress plugins. If such a plugin triggers, for example, Facebook, usage of this API will be of help. If a user embeds a Facebook iframe, a blocking tool is needed that initially disables the iframe and or scripts. Third-party scripts have to blocked by blocking functionality in a consent management plugin. To do this in core would be to intrusive, and is also not applicable to all users: only users with visitors from opt-in regions such as the European Union require such a feature. Such a feature also has a risk of breaking things. Additionally, blocking these and showing a nice placeholder requires even more sophisticated code, all of which should in my opinion not be part of WordPress core, for the same reasons. How does it work? There are two indicators that together tell if consent is given for a specific consent category, e.g., “marketing”: 1) the region based consent_type, which can be opt-in, opt-out, or other possible consent_types; 2) and the visitor’s choice: not set, allow, or deny. The consent_type is a function that wraps a filter, “wp_get_consent_type”. If there’s no consent management plugin to set it, it will return false. This will cause all consent categories to return true, allowing cookies to be set on all categories. If opt-in is set using this filter, a category will only return true if the value of the visitor’s choice is “allow”. If the region based consent_type is opt-out, it will return true if the visitor’s choice is not set or is “allow”. Clientside, a consent management plugin can dynamically manipulate the consent type and set several cookie categories. A plugin can use a hook to listen for changes or check the value of a given category. Categories and most other stuff can be extended with a filter. Existing integrations Categorized, and sorted alphabetically Example plugin Example plugin. The plugin basically consists of a shortcode, with a div that shows a tracking or not tracking message. No actual tracking is done 🙂 Consent Management Providers Abconsent Sirdata CMP. Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner. Clickio Consent Cookie Consent CMP. Complianz GDPR/CCPA. Consent Studio. consentmanager. Conzent. Cookiebot. CookieFirst. CookieHub. CookieTractor. CookieYes – Cookie Banner for Cookie Consent. GDPR Cookie Compliance. GDPR Cookie Consent Plugin – CCPA Ready. GetTerms. iubenda | All-in-one Compliance. Lawwwing. Pressidium Cookie Consent. TrustArc Cookie Consent Manager Consent Requiring Plugins AddToAny. AFL UTM Tracker Plugin. Burst Statistics. Google Site Kit. Pixel Manager for WooCommerce. Woo. WP Statistics. Demo site wpconsentapi.org Below are the plugins used to set up the demo site: Complianz The example plugin javascript, consent management plugin //set consent type window.wp_consent_type = 'optin' //dispatch event when consent type is defined. This is useful if the region is detected server side, so the consent type is defined later during the pageload let event = new CustomEvent('wp_consent_type_defined'); document.dispatchEvent( event ); //consent management plugin sets cookie when consent category value changes wp_set_consent('marketing', 'allow'); javascript, tracking plugin //listen to consent change event document.addEventListener("wp_listen_for_consent_change", function (e) { var changedConsentCategory = e.detail; for (var key in changedConsentCategory) { if (changedConsentCategory.hasOwnProperty(key)) { if (key === 'marketing' && changedConsentCategory[key] === 'allow') { console.log("just given consent, track user") } } } }); //basic implementation of consent check: if (wp_has_consent('marketing')){ activateMarketing(); console.log("set marketing stuff now!"); } else { console.log("No marketing stuff please!"); } PHP //declare compliance with consent level API $plugin = plugin_basename( __FILE__ ); add_filter( "wp_consent_api_registered_{$plugin}", '__return_true' ); /** * Example how a plugin can register cookies with the consent API * These cookies can then be shown on the front-end, to the user, with wp_get_cookie_info() */ function my_wordpress_register_cookies(){ if ( function_exists( 'wp_add_cookie_info' ) ) { wp_add_cookie_info( 'AMP_token', 'AMP', 'marketing', __( 'Session' ), __( 'Store a unique User ID.' ) ); } } add_action('plugins_loaded', 'my_wordpress_register_cookies'); if (wp_has_consent('marketing')){ //do marketing stuff } Service-level consent In addition to category-based consent, the API supports service-level consent control. This allows consent management plugins to grant or deny consent for specific services (like ‘google-analytics’ or ‘facebook-pixel’) independently from their category. When checking service consent with wp_has_service_consent(), the API first checks if explicit consent exists for that service. If no explicit consent is set, it falls back to the consent status of the service’s category. This enables fine-grained control: a user might accept statistics cookies in general, but explicitly deny a specific analytics service. Service consent can be checked and set both server-side (PHP) and client-side (JavaScript): PHP: //check if a specific service has consent if ( wp_has_service_consent( 'google-analytics' ) ) { //activate google analytics } //check if a service is explicitly denied if ( wp_is_service_denied( 'facebook-pixel' ) ) { //service was explicitly denied by user } //set service consent wp_set_service_consent( 'google-analytics', true ); //grant consent wp_set_service_consent( 'facebook-pixel', false ); //deny consent //listen for service consent changes add_action( 'wp_consent_service_changed', function( $service, $consented ) { error_log( "Service {$service} consent changed to: " . ( $consented ? 'granted' : 'denied' ) ); }, 10, 2 ); JavaScript: //check service consent if ( wp_has_service_consent( 'youtube' ) ) { //activate tracking } //check if explicitly denied if ( wp_is_service_denied( 'facebook-pixel' ) ) { //service denied } //set service consent wp_set_service_consent( 'youtube', true ); //listen for service consent changes document.addEventListener( 'wp_consent_api_status_change_service', function( e ) { console.log( 'Service: ' + e.detail.service + ', consented: ' + e.detail.value ); }); Any code suggestions? We’re on GitHub as well!