ACookies Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
Plugin Description
ACookies adds a cookie consent banner, Google Consent Mode v2 support and an editable Cookie Policy block to WordPress. Review detected cookies, manage optional script rules, and let visitors change their choices.
The Free plugin provides the essential consent workflow without a paid license. Optional Pro licenses add larger and more frequent managed scans for 1, 5, or 25 WordPress sites.
The consent workflow includes:
- A balanced banner with Accept, Reject, and Customize choices.
- Google Consent Mode v2 defaults and updates.
- Optional WP Consent API synchronization.
- 26 bundled visitor languages, WPML-aware matching, and RTL support.
- A managed five-page cookie scan once per calendar month.
- A seven-day import code from the free generator so onboarding can keep a completed scan.
- Editable cookie categories and descriptions.
- Conservative rules that can delay registered external scripts by WordPress handle or script URL.
- A Cookie Policy block disclosing all detected cookies, including clearly labelled unclassified cookies.
- Verified cookie references, automatic classifications, and a review queue for uncertain or changed evidence.
- Local consent records for up to 30 days or 1,000 entries.
- No visitor or page-view limit.
ACookies stays inactive after a fresh installation. The public banner and managed scanner are enabled only after an administrator completes the setup flow.
Scanner and AI classifications are suggestions. ACookies does not provide legal advice or guarantee compliance with every law, site, theme, tag manager, or third-party integration.
Free and Pro
Free contains the essential visitor choices, Consent Mode integration, basic design, bundled languages, monthly scan, cookie list, local records, and policy publishing.
All paid site-count tiers include the same features. Pro scanning allows up to 500 pages per scan and two scans per site per UTC calendar day, with manual, daily, or weekly scheduling after scanner opt-in and license verification. The default sample remains 10 pages, and existing saved sample sizes are preserved. Scanner and AI suggestions remain reviewable. Paid licenses include updates and email support during the purchased term. Contact support@acookies.com for an initial technical response within four business days. Existing Free installations remain functional without a paid plan.
Managed script controls
ACookies can delay external scripts registered through WordPress when they match an administrator-defined handle or source URL rule. ACookies does not use broad output buffering and does not claim to block every hardcoded inline script, iframe, or dynamically injected resource. Test the actual site before publication.
External services
ACookies managed scanner
The managed scanner is optional and disabled by default. When an administrator enables it and accepts the linked data-processing terms, the plugin sends:
- A random installation identifier.
- The public WordPress site origin.
- Up to five selected public page URLs on Free.
- The plugin version, default language, and enabled languages.
The service loads those public URLs in an isolated browser and returns cookies, domains, providers, script URLs, and related evidence. Site-scoped access tokens are used instead of a credential shared inside the plugin. After this same scanner opt-in, the plugin may send deduplicated activation, onboarding-complete, first-scan and policy-published milestone events with its plugin version. The service associates these events with a one-way hash of the installation identity. These events contain no visitor data and are not sent before scanner opt-in. Server-side scan job data is scheduled for deletion after seven days. Results copied into WordPress remain in the site owner’s database.
Service documentation and terms:
OpenAI
Managed scans on both Free and Pro may use server-side AI enrichment when enabled by the service operator. This may send detected cookie names, domains, paths, categories, relevant script evidence, verified references, and requested languages to OpenAI. Cookie values, page content, WordPress passwords, and private administrator data are not intentionally sent. Classifications are accepted only when they match a supplied verified reference; uncertain results need administrator review. Descriptions remain editable.
Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager
These optional integrations load Google’s tag script from www.googletagmanager.com only when an administrator configures a GA4 measurement ID or GTM container ID. In the default basic consent mode, the plugin loads GA4 after analytics consent and GTM after analytics or marketing consent. If the administrator explicitly enables advanced consent mode, Google tags can load before consent with denied storage defaults and may send cookieless pings. No Google tag is loaded by these integrations when no ID is configured.
Loading a tag contacts Google with the configured measurement/container ID, the visitor’s IP address, browser request headers, and page/request information. Tags receive the visitor’s consent state. Google Analytics and tags configured in a GTM container can send additional analytics or advertising events and use cookies according to their configuration and the visitor’s consent. Site owners must configure and review their tags; ACookies does not control every tag placed in a container or added by another plugin.
Google Consent Mode commands, including ACookies’ vendor developer ID, are queued locally by the consent bridge. Queuing those commands alone does not contact Google. The built-in Facebook URL rules only identify scripts already registered by the site; ACookies does not load Meta/Facebook scripts itself.
Freemius
The Premium distribution bundles the Freemius SDK for optional product telemetry, account and license handling, paid checkout, and Premium updates. Freemius presents its own opt-in permissions inside WordPress. The WordPress.org Free distribution does not include or load that SDK and uses WordPress.org for updates. Free requires neither a paid license nor a Freemius account.
Screenshots
Balanced visitor banner with Accept, Reject, and Customize choices.
Five-step setup flow that keeps a fresh installation inactive.
Setup dashboard with banner, scan, review, and policy status.
Managed scan results with categories, providers, and editable descriptions.
Conservative script rules mapped by WordPress handle or source URL.
Cookie Policy block disclosing detected cookies and unconfirmed purposes.
