EU Cookies Bar for WordPress

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• Agreement duration: Set expiry date for an agreement after a user accepts
• Block until accepting: An option to enable cookies only after visitor accepts to use, for those who want their website comply with the new EU Cookies Law-GDPR
• Strictly necessary cookies: Specify very important cookies that can not be disabled by your visitors
• Strictly necessary cookies prefix: Cookies whose names start with these prefixes can not be disable by your visitors too
• Your privacy policy: This is to let your visitors know what your website uses cookies for beside a list of cookies that your website uses

• Message: Easy to change/edit front-end message with WordPress editor
• Button decline: Let your visitors able to accept or decline your privacy policy, this is one of what GDPR requires
• Button close: Just another option
• Cookies bar position: Can be top, bottom, bottom left or bottom right, not many but enough
• Implicit behaviors: Close cookies bar, accept or decline when your visitors hit close button, scroll their mouse wheel or refresh the browser. Depending on which cookies/privacy law you have to comply with, use this option flexibly to make the cookies bar less annoyed
• Cookies bar design: You can change cookies bar font-size, text color, background color or opacity to make it in harmony with your theme, and a custom css field is available for your own customization

• GDPR requires your website to have this
• This is a small popup box that show your privacy and cookies policy and a list of available cookies that your website uses
• Visitors can view and edit to accept which cookies on the list whenever they want, even before or after they accept to use cookies
• A very small bar on the bottom which will show the visitors cookies settings when they click on it, and also a helpful shortcode [eucookiesbar_settings]"your text"[/eucookiesbar_settings] to call the cookies settings which you can place wherever you want in case you don't want the small bar to be there

• Multilingual support and language detection
• Cookie rejection expiration period
• Integration with Google Tag Manager (GTM)
• Integration with Meta Pixel for tracking

• Ability to display cookies on both frontend and backend
• Scan cookies to detect and list all cookies in use on your site
• Add and delete cookies as needed
• Edit cookie details, such as name, category, duration, and description
• Organize cookies into categories
• Create and manage cookie categories, including setting up names, descriptions, and assigning cookies
• Mark certain cookies, such as strictly necessary ones, as "Always Active"
• Add or remove categories as needed
• Rearrange cookie categories by dragging and dropping them

• Control the delay before the cookie bar appears
• Dismiss the cookie bar after a timeout period
• Use conditional tags to control when and where the cookie bar appears
• Customize the design and appearance of the privacy button
• Set a header title for the cookie bar

• Choose from different layout options for the settings popup
• Display cookies in a list format or with tabs
• Add custom icons to the settings popup
• Adjust the opacity of the popup
• Option to hide content from characters
• Enable or disable the cookie list
• Show or hide cookie descriptions
• Hide specific cookie categories from the list
• Customize the save, accept, reject button with options for enabling/disabling, color, background color...
• Edit the overview tab header, cookies list label, and cookie name/description column labels
• Set custom labels for the "Always Active" and "Active Cookie" sections
• Modify the description under the overview tab

• Position the floating icon on the page
• Choose the icon to be displayed for quick access to cookie settings

• Access and view activity logs to monitor user interactions with the cookie consent mechanism
• Generate detailed reports on cookie consent performance

• Getting Started

• Project Page
• Documentation
• Report Bugs/Issues

1. Unzip the download package
2. Upload eu-cookies-bar to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
3. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress

• Updated: Compatible with WP 6.9 – Updated: Update support class /1.0.19 - 2025.08.28/
• Updated: Minify some source code
• Updated: Add some option from premium version /1.0.18 - 2025.04.18/
• Updated: Compatible with WP 6.8 /1.0.17 - 2024.11.25/
• Updated: Compatible with WP 6.7 /1.0.16 - 2024.07.23/
• Updated: Compatible with WP 6.6 /1.0.15 - 2024.06.13/
• Updated: Version detail for source code /1.0.14 - 2024.04.13/
• Updated: Compatible with WP 6.5 /1.0.13 - 2023.10.26/
• Updated: Compatible with WP 6.3 /1.0.12 - 2023.02.24/
• Fixed: Use force_balance_tags for eu-cookie-bar content /1.0.11 - 2022.10.04/
• Fixed: Changes in settings are not synchronized after clicking the Save button
• Fixed: Decline button not showing /1.0.10 - 2022.07.22/
• Updated: Class support
• Updated: Data sanitization/escaping check /1.0.9 - 2022.05.30/
• Updated: Class support
• Updated: Compatible with WP 6.0 /1.0.8 - 2022.04.20/
• Updated: Class support /1.0.7 - 2022.03.29/
• Updated: Class support /1.0.6 - 2022.03.21/
• Updated: Class support /1.0.5 - 2022.02.21/
• Fixed: Error with admin users when enabling "Block cookies until accepting" /1.0.4 - 2022.01.10/
• Updated: Class support
• Updated: Do not apply "Block cookies until accepting" feature to site admin
• Updated: Strictly necessary cookies prefix list /1.0.3.10 - 2021.07.31/
• Updated: Class support
• Updated: Compatible with WP 5.8 /1.0.3.9 - 2021.06.16/
• Updated: Class support /1.0.3.8 - 2021.04.08/
• Fixed: Slashes added when saving text /1.0.3.7 - 2020.08.18/
• Updated: Compatible with WP 5.5 /1.0.3.6 - 2020.04.23/
• Updated: Language file
• Updated: Class support /1.0.3.5 - 2020.03.23/
• Updated: Compatible with WP 5.4
• Updated: Class support /1.0.3.4 - 2019.11.16/
• Updated: Compatible with WP 5.3 /1.0.3.3 - 2019.04.03/
• Updated: Add dismiss button for admin notices /1.0.3.2 - 2018.11.21/
• Updated: Class support /1.0.3.1 - 2018.11.10/
• Updated: Class support /1.0.3 - 2018.10.17/
• Updated: Class support /1.0.2 - 2018.10.15/
• Fixed: Class support /1.0.1 - 2018../
• Added: Screenshort
• Added: Option to customize cookies bar border radius, margin, padding; button accept and button decline title, color, background color, border radius; user cookies form heading and button "Save settings" design
• Updated: Privacy page url v1.0.0 - 2018.06.27
• First release.