Pressidium Cookie Consent vs Terms & Conditions Consent Log

Pressidium Cookie Consent makes it easy to add a stylish, customizable cookie consent banner to your website and conditionally load third-party scripts (analytics, performance, targeting, etc.) based on the user-selected preferences to help you comply with EU GDPR cookie law, CCPA, and similar regulations. ⚙️ Fully customizable Easily modify the cookie consent banner and settings modal text. Pick one of the built-in color presets to match your website’s aesthetic, or adjust the color of individual components via our convenient color picker. Choose from a variety of layouts, positions, and transitions directly from the WordPress dashboard. 🪶 Lightweight The plugin is built on top of the Cookie Consent JS library by Orest Bida, a standalone vanilla JavaScript library with no third-party dependencies, that loads blazingly fast and won’t slow down your website. ♿ Accessible An a11y friendly plugin — fully accessible and WAI-ARIA compliant. 🌐 Translatable Modify any text in the cookie consent banner and settings modal, and provide translations. Choose the language auto-detection strategy you prefer — either read the user’s browser language or read the markup of the current page to identify its primary language. 📱 Responsive Fully responsive and mobile-friendly cookie consent banner and settings modal. 🙅 Block scripts Control which scripts are loaded based on the user’s preferences. List the URLs of the scripts you’d like to block (both exact matches and regular expressions are supported) and prevent them from running until the user has given consent. 🧹 Auto-clear cookies Automatically delete cookies when a user opts-out of a specific category inside cookie settings. ✋ Force consent Block the user from interacting with the page until they consent to your cookie policy. 🔁 Re-consent Ask users to consent again when you update your cookie policy. 📝 Consent records Record user consents to be able to provide proof of consent for auditing purposes. 🎛️ Floating settings button Add a floating settings button to your website that allows users to change their cookie preferences at any time. 🤖 Hide from bots Automatically parse the user agent to detect bots, crawlers, and webdrivers. If one is detected, you have the option to hide the cookie consent banner from them. 🧩 Google Consent Mode (GCM) integration Integrate with Google Consent Mode (GCM) to adjust how Google tags behave based on the user’s consent preferences. Supports both Google tag (gtag.js) and Google Tag Manager (GTM) implementations. 🚪 Google tag gateway integration One-click PHP proxy to quickly route traffic to Google tag gateway for advertisers. ✨ AI integration Integrate with AI to generate translations and cookie descriptions. Supports both GPT and Gemini. 🧱 Block for the WordPress Block Editor Add the Pressidium Cookies Table block for the Block Editor to display a dynamic table listing all cookies under the selected category, making it easy for users to understand what cookies are being used on the site. ⌨️ Control it programmatically Programmatically control the plugin. Conditionally show/hide the cookie consent banner and/or the settings modal, accept one (or more) cookie categories, erase cookies, load previously blocked scripts, etc. About Pressidium This is a free and open source WordPress plugin developed by Pressidium®. Pressidium offers Managed WordPress hosting for web professionals designed to optimize the performance, security, and scalability of WordPress websites. With a strong emphasis on reliability, Pressidium utilizes high-available architecture to ensure your website’s uptime.

WordPress stores consent as a yes. Nothing about when, from where, or which version of your terms was on screen. The day somebody disputes it, that yes is worth very little. Terms & Conditions Consent Log fills the gap on any acceptance checkbox of your site: WooCommerce checkout (classic and blocks), Contact Form 7, WPForms, Gravity Forms, Fluent Forms, comments, login and registration, or a stand-alone shortcode or block. Every accepted consent writes a row to a dedicated indexed table with the timestamp, the IP, the user agent, the document version in force and the exact text shown, sealed with a SHA-256 hash so any later change is detectable. Exactly what Article 7.1 of the GDPR requires you to be able to demonstrate. Filter, search, export to CSV, integrate with the native WordPress Privacy Tools and open a printable A4 certificate for any record, one click to save it as PDF. Works with or without WooCommerce The admin menu lives under Users → Consent log on every install, with or without WooCommerce. The WooCommerce-specific bits (checkout capture for both the classic and the block checkout, order metabox, “Consent” column on the orders list, optional consent line in the order emails) load only when WooCommerce is active; everything else (Records, Settings, CSV export, PDF certificate, Privacy Tools integration) works the same way on any WordPress site. Sources of consent WooCommerce classic checkout (auto when WC is active): captures the native terms checkbox. Stored as terms_and_privacy. WooCommerce block checkout (auto when WC is active): captures purchases made through the block checkout, which is what WooCommerce builds for new stores since version 8.3 and which the classic hooks never see. Stores the exact wording of the Terms and Conditions block. Recorded as terms_and_privacy when that block requires a checkbox, or as terms_notice when it only shows the informational paragraph WooCommerce ships by default, so acceptance by conduct is never logged as explicit consent. An opt-in toggle adds a required checkbox of the plugin’s own, validated server-side, for evidence that does not depend on browser-side validation. On by default. Contact Form 7 (auto): detects [acceptance] fields automatically and the first email field of the form. Stored as cf7_form_{ID}, one type per form. No snippets required. On by default; turn off in Settings if it does not apply. WPForms (auto): detects GDPR Agreement fields automatically and the first email field of the form. Stored as wpforms_form_{ID}, one type per form. Works with WPForms Lite and Pro. No snippets required. On by default; turn off in Settings if it does not apply. Gravity Forms (auto): detects Consent fields automatically and the first email field of the form. Stored as gravityforms_form_{ID}, one type per form. No snippets required. On by default; turn off in Settings if it does not apply. Fluent Forms (auto): detects GDPR Agreement and Terms & Conditions fields automatically and the first email field of the form. Stored as fluentforms_form_{ID}, one type per form. Works with Fluent Forms Lite and Pro. No snippets required. On by default; turn off in Settings if it does not apply. WordPress comments (auto): logs the native wp-comment-cookies-consent checkbox (introduced in WP 4.9.6) when the visitor opts in. Stored as comment_consent. On by default; turn off in Settings if your site uses Disqus, Jetpack or another third-party comments system. Note that this native checkbox is a cookie preference, not consent to store the commenter’s data. Privacy consent on comments and WooCommerce reviews (opt-in): adds a required privacy checkbox to the comment form, blocks the submission server-side if it is left unticked, and stores the acceptance as comment_privacy. This is the Article 7.1 consent to processing the name and email a commenter hands over, as opposed to the cookie preference above. WooCommerce product reviews share the comment form, so they are covered by the same option. Off by default. Membership, course and custom sign-up forms (opt-in): captures accounts created outside the standard WordPress and WooCommerce forms, such as those from MemberPress, LearnDash, Ultimate Member or Paid Memberships Pro, and multisite sign-ups. Stored as user_register. Accounts created from the admin Users screen are never recorded. Off by default. WordPress login and registration (auto): captures successful logins and registrations through wp-login.php when a consent checkbox is ticked on the form. Stored as wp_login and wp_register. Registration is on by default; login is off by default (a normal login form has no consent checkbox, so login only matters for re-consent flows). The “Remember me” checkbox is excluded by design (ePrivacy / cookie preference, not GDPR consent). WooCommerce login and registration (auto when WC is active): same idea for the My Account page. Stored as wc_login and wc_register. Registration is on by default; login is off by default, like the WordPress rows above. An opt-in toggle can inject the consent checkbox into the WC register form, since WooCommerce does not ship one natively. [tccl_consent_box] shortcode and Gutenberg block: drop a self-contained consent checkbox in any page, post or widget area as a stand-alone block. Submission posts to a REST endpoint and writes a record. Always available. For anything else (Elementor Forms, Forminator, custom flows), call tccl_save_consent() from the appropriate hook. Why a dedicated table Storing thousands of consent records in wp_postmeta is wasteful and slow. The plugin uses its own indexed table and exposes a public function (tccl_save_consent) that you can call from anywhere to log additional consents in the same place. Main features Records timestamp UTC, IP, user agent, document version, source URL and full consent text per acceptance. Custom database table with the right indexes (no wp_postmeta bloat). Tamper-evident: each record is sealed with a SHA-256 hash. Any later change to the stored text is detected and reported as TAMPERED in the records list. Printable A4 certificate per record, with a built-in “Print / Save as PDF” button — the browser exports the certificate to PDF natively, no external library bundled. Native Privacy Tools integration: Tools > Export Personal Data and Tools > Erase Personal Data both include consent records (erasure anonymises rather than deletes — the record itself is the lawful basis to keep it). WooCommerce checkout texts are optional — leave them empty and the WooCommerce native text is shown to the customer and stored verbatim. Automatic version bump when the text changes (suggests MAJOR.MINOR-YYYY-MM-DD). Optional opt-out of IP and/or user agent tracking. Configurable retention with a one-click anonymise button (records kept; PII scrubbed). Configurable access by role: grant the consent log to extra roles (for example a DPO) from Settings → Access, without making them administrators. One record per ticked box: a form with a required privacy checkbox and an optional marketing one produces two separate records, so the optional consent is evidenced on its own instead of being swallowed by the required one. Per-form consent wording: the WordPress login, WordPress registration, WooCommerce login and WooCommerce registration forms can each store their own text, falling back to a site-wide default. Live partial-match filters (email, order, date range, type, full-text search inside the accepted text) + filtered CSV export with UTF-8 BOM (opens cleanly in Excel). (When WooCommerce is active) Order metabox with the consent summary, integrity badge and outdated-version indicator. “Consent” column on the orders list (legacy and HPOS) with a quick visual status. Optional consent line in the New order email (admin) and the order confirmation email (customer) — both off by default. Optional delete_data_on_uninstall setting (off by default) — uninstalling does not destroy consent evidence unless you explicitly opt in. HPOS (custom order tables) compatible. Public tccl_save_consent() function to log consents from anywhere. Translation ready All strings use the terms-conditions-consent-log text domain. Translations are managed through translate.wordpress.org. Support Need private support or custom development? 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