ClearCrumb – Cookie Consent & GDPR Cookie Banner

ClearCrumb shows a fast, accessible cookie banner and stores each visitor's choice in their own browser. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPHvy_QaW3I

• Auto-blocking: your services' scripts and embeds wait for consent, even on cached pages.
• Switching? Import your settings from Complianz, CookieYes or Cookiebot.
• A two-minute setup wizard: regions, scan, services, design.
• Works with WPML, Polylang and TranslatePress.
• Banner in 16 languages (EN, DE, FR, NL, ES, IT, PT, PL, SV, DA, FI, NO, CS, RO, AR, HE), picked from your site language, right-to-left included.
• A cookie policy page that keeps itself up to date: [clearcrumb_cookie_policy], in English, German, French, Dutch, Spanish and Italian.
• A cookie scanner that checks up to 50 pages and finds the services your site uses.
• A Leak Test that shows what still loads before consent.
• A Compliance Score from 0 to 100 that tells you what to fix.
• A consent checkbox for Contact Form 7 and WPForms forms.
• A consent log in your own database: proof of every choice, kept as long as you choose (30 days to forever), with hashed IDs and IPs, and a CSV export.
• Region rules: GDPR opt-in for the EU, EEA, UK and Switzerland, US opt-out with Global Privacy Control.
• Google Consent Mode v2 (basic and advanced), Microsoft UET Consent Mode, Meta Pixel and TikTok Pixel consent APIs and the WP Consent API.
• Placeholders for blocked videos and maps, with a locally stored thumbnail and a "Load video" button.
• A library of 155 common services with their cookies, so visitors see who is behind each choice.
• Four banner layouts and six design styles, with a live preview while you edit.
• Accept, Reject and Preferences with four categories: necessary, preferences, statistics and marketing.
• Reject always looks exactly like Accept. Saying no is never harder than saying yes.
• A floating "cookie settings" button and a [clearcrumb_preferences] shortcode, so visitors can change their mind at any time.
• Small and quick: no jQuery, no external requests, the banner script loads deferred.
• Settings export and import as a JSON file, to set up your next site in seconds.
• WP-CLI commands: wp clearcrumb scan and wp clearcrumb log export.
• A dashboard widget with this week's consent rate.
• Block-editor blocks: Cookie policy and Cookie settings link.
• Keyboard and screen-reader friendly (WCAG 2.2 AA target).

ClearCrumb helps you meet cookie rules but is not legal advice. For developers window.ClearCrumb.get() returns the visitor's choice (or null), ClearCrumb.has( 'statistics' ) checks one category, and ClearCrumb.open() opens the preferences. Every saved choice fires a clearcrumb:consent event on document. Source code & build Everything ships readable. The banner scripts and styles sit next to their minified copies (assets/js/guard.js, assets/js/banner.js, assets/css/banner.css). The admin app's source is in src/admin/, with the build tools in src/tools/. To rebuild assets/admin/ and the .min files, run this inside the plugin's src folder (Node.js 18 or newer): npm install && npm run build

1.0.4

• ClearCrumb Pro is out: the Pro buttons now say "Get ClearCrumb Pro" and lead to the pricing page.

1.0.3

• New "Ask everyone again" button under Banner: every visitor chooses again after you change your services or policy.
• Keyboard focus comes back after Accept, Reject or Save (to the link or button that opened the banner, else the floating button).
• Microsoft Clarity now gets the consent signal on the first Accept and on every page for returning visitors.
• Google Maps placeholders show a drawn map instead of a plain box, still without any request to Google before consent.
• The Compliance Score counts a [clearcrumb_preferences] link, the Cookie settings block or a .clearcrumb-open-preferences link as a way to change your mind.
• Themes and page builders (Elementor kits, Hello) can no longer repaint the banner switches and buttons, also on hover.
• WP-CLI: wp clearcrumb log export exports every record the log keeps by default.

1.0.2

• New option under Banner → Design: show a small "Powered by ClearCrumb" line in the banner (nofollow link). Off unless you switch it on.
• The plugin author name on the Plugins screen links to clearcrumb.com/about/.
• The Sunset style is now rose pink, so it no longer looks like Paper.
• Admin dropdowns show their arrow again.
• The floating "cookie settings" button now plays the ClearCrumb logo animation every 4 seconds (off for visitors who prefer reduced motion).

1.0.1

• Consent log: you choose how long records are kept (30 days to forever, one year by default), and you can download the log as a CSV file.
• Removed the Custom CSS field. Use WordPress's own Additional CSS instead; your design settings stay as they are.
• Works on PHP 7.4 again (the cookie domain check used a PHP 8 function).
• The region check now reads only the location headers it needs, sanitized.
• The source of the admin app and the build tools now ship in src/.

1.0.0

• First public release.