Web Pixel Studio Cookie Consent for EU

🚀 Web Pixel Studio Cookie Consent for EU helps WordPress websites comply with GDPR and ePrivacy requirements using a modern, fast and fully customizable consent solution. Built on the powerful Orest Bida CookieConsent library, the plugin extends it with advanced WordPress features including: ✔ Google Consent Mode v2 & v3\ ✔ Matomo integration (strict or anonymous mode)\ ✔ Script blocking before consent\ ✔ Consent logging with export\ ✔ Cookie declarations\ ✔ Floating consent icon\ ✔ Translation presets\ ✔ Full visual customization\ ✔ Import / Export settings\ ✔ Re-consent support\ ✔ No Google dependency required Perfect for:

• Businesses
• WooCommerce stores
• Agencies
• Public sector websites
• Schools & universities
• Healthcare organizations
• Privacy-focused projects

✨ Main Features 🍪 Modern Cookie Banner & Preferences Modal Create a beautiful and accessible consent experience:

• Box, Bar or Cloud layouts
• 7 banner positions
• Fully animated UI
• Full-screen preferences modal
• Accept All / Reject All / Manage Preferences
• Category-based consent:
• Necessary
• Analytics
• Preferences
• Targeting
• Mobile-friendly & accessible

📊 Google Consent Mode v2 & v3 Supports Google's latest consent requirements for EU traffic. Features include:

• Automatic default denied state
• Consent updates via gtag('consent', 'update', ...)
• Google Ads & GA4 compatibility
• Consent Mode v2 support
• Consent Mode v3 support
• Optional Google Tag Manager loading
• Enhanced developer ID signals

📈 Matomo Integration (Privacy Friendly) Use Matomo instead of Google Analytics. Features:

• Self-hosted friendly
• Strict no-tracking mode
• Optional anonymous cookieless tracking
• Automatic consent switching
• Dynamic script loading after consent
• Matomo Analytics presets
• Matomo Tag Manager presets Ideal for websites that must keep visitor data fully under their own infrastructure.

🛡 Script Blocking Prevent third-party scripts from loading before consent. Supports:

• Plain text matching
• Regex matching
• Automatic script type conversion
• Category-based unlocking
• Google, Meta, Matomo, Hotjar & Sourcebuster presets

📝 Consent Logging Store proof of consent in WordPress with unique Consent ID, timestamp, IP, user agent, URL, and consent choices. Includes admin log viewer, pagination, CSV export, and GDPR audit support. 📋 Cookie Declarations Display transparent cookie information using [ccwps_cookie_list]. Each cookie entry includes name, domain, duration, path, description, and category. ⚡ Ready-Made Presets Quickly configure popular services:

• Google Analytics
• Google Ads
• Facebook Pixel
• Matomo Analytics
• Matomo Tag Manager
• Hotjar
• Sourcebuster (sbjs)

Presets can automatically add:

• Cookies
• Script blocking rules

🌍 Translation & Localization Includes built-in presets for:

• 🇬🇧 English
• 🇸🇰 Slovak
• 🇨🇿 Czech
• 🇩🇪 German
• 🇫🇷 French
• 🇪🇸 Spanish
• 🇵🇱 Polish
• 🇭🇺 Hungarian
• 🇮🇹 Italian
• 🇷🇴 Romanian
• 🇳🇱 Dutch (Nederlands)

All texts are fully editable and frontend language switching is included. 🎨 Full Visual Customization Customize nearly everything:

• Primary color
• Background color
• Text colors
• Border radius
• Font family
• Banner layouts
• Banner positions
• Floating icon type
• Floating icon position
• Custom logo support
• Legal links in banner and preferences modal (Cookie Policy + Privacy Policy with custom labels and URLs)
• Advanced spacing controls (section popup, per-button padding/margins, spacing-only reset)

No coding required. 🔄 Import / Export Settings Move configuration between websites instantly. Export includes:

• Appearance
• Cookies
• Blocking rules
• Translations
• Branding
• Settings Import also supports cookie domain remap to the current site domain for safer cross-site migration.

🤖 Bot Detection Automatically hides the banner from:

• Search engine crawlers
• Bots
• Automated indexing systems Helps avoid incorrect indexing and consent artifacts.

♻ Re-consent Support Automatically requests new consent when:

• Cookie declarations change
• Categories change
• Consent version changes Helps maintain GDPR compliance over time.

🧩 Shortcodes [ccwps_consent_id] Displays the visitor consent ID. [ccwps_cookie_list] Displays an automatic cookie table grouped by category. Perfect for Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy pages. 🖥 Powerful Admin Panel Modern WordPress admin experience with:

• Sidebar navigation
• Always-visible preview buttons
• Expandable help sections
• Consent log viewer
• CSV export
• Step-by-step setup documentation
• GTM integration guide
• Preset popups for faster setup

🔒 GDPR & ePrivacy Compliance This plugin is designed to help websites comply with:

• GDPR
• ePrivacy Directive
• EU cookie laws

⚠ Compliance depends on your implementation and local jurisdiction. Always consult a legal professional when necessary.

1.1.8

• Changed: The Consent Log in admin now shows the full Consent ID instead of a shortened preview.

1.1.7

• Fixed: [ccwps_manage_consent] button appearance settings (colors, border, radius) now correctly apply on the frontend — duplicate CSS definition was overriding CSS variables set by the shortcode.
• Improved: [ccwps_manage_consent] settings card moved to the end of the Appearance tab and visual style unified with other button settings cards.
• Consent log: Changed records per page from 50 to 30.
• Consent log: Added search/filter by date (exact day) and by consent ID (partial match).
• Consent log: IP addresses are now anonymized in the admin display (last IPv4 octet replaced with xxx; IPv6 truncated after 4th group).
• Consent log: Improved pagination — smart 5-page window with ellipsis, first/last page always visible, and navigation arrows (first, previous, next, last).

1.1.6

• Added appearance settings for [ccwps_manage_consent] button (colors, border, hover, radius)
• Each field has its own refresh icon to restore default value
• Improved admin UI and style consistency for appearance tab

1.1.5

• Added Romanian (ro) and Dutch (nl) language presets for admin

1.1.4

• Added compatibility verification with WordPress 7.0
• Updated PHP and WordPress version requirements

1.1.3

• New: floating icon vertical margin controls for desktop/mobile. "Prispôsobiť" button now always works everywhere (added missing attribute for full compatibility). See Appearance → Floating icon section.

1.1.2

• Added floating icon vertical margin adjustment for desktop displays (Appearance → Floating icon)
• Added separate mobile floating icon margin control (applies to devices with width ≤520px)
• Enhanced floating icon positioning customization with new margin controls (0-500px range)
• Added full multi-language support for new margin settings across all 8 supported admin languages (SK, EN, CS, DE, FR, ES, HU, PL)

1.1.1

• Added GDPR-focused consent log data minimization: IP addresses are now anonymized before storage and device data is stored as anonymized device/browser info.
• Added automatic database migration for existing installs (upgrading from 1.1.0 or older) to safely add the new device_info consent log column.
• Updated Consent Log admin table and CSV export to include anonymized device information.
• Fixed admin-side fatal parsing issue in consent logging flow and stabilized related save logic.
• Added missing empty-log message translations across all supported admin languages.
• Added new sidebar rating blocks in admin: "Rate the plugin" (WordPress.org) and "Rate us on Google" links with star UI opening in a new tab.
• Improved star-rating visuals to WordPress-like yellow stars and enforced no underline on hover/focus states.

1.1.0

• Added legal links controls in Appearance for banner and preferences modal: optional Cookie Policy and Privacy Policy links with custom URL and label text.
• Added advanced visual spacing popup with context sections for banner text, legal links, banner buttons, and modal content/buttons.
• Added independent per-button spacing controls (padding and margins) for Accept/Reject/Manage in banner and Save/Reject/Accept in modal.
• Added spacing-only reset action and improved admin UX with settings icons next to relevant section headings.
• Added support for margin controls in addition to padding controls.
• Improved frontend style mapping to apply new per-button spacing variables consistently.
• Extended import/export coverage for all new visual and legal-link settings.
• Added import-time cookie domain remapping to the current site domain for safer cross-site migration.
• Expanded admin i18n coverage for new Appearance and spacing/legal-links texts across all supported admin languages.
• Hardened admin/preview styling behavior for better compatibility with theme and page-builder overrides.

1.0.9

• Added translations for all 34 admin UI messages (Settings saved, errors, confirmations, etc.) across all 8 supported languages.
• Localized [ccwps_cookie_list] shortcode to use visitor-detected language when "Language by visitor" is enabled.
• Improved cookie list shortcode with data attributes to support dynamic language switching in JavaScript.
• Enhanced frontend i18n initialization to update language when visitor language detection is active.

1.0.8

• Added new cookie presets for Hotjar and Sourcebuster (sbjs), including default domain placeholders, categories, and expiration values.
• Added new script-blocking presets for Hotjar and Sourcebuster with precise regex-based source matching.
• Added preset description and expiration translations for all 9 supported languages.
• Improved frontend localization for cookie preset texts: preset descriptions and expiration values are now localized in the consent modal and in the [ccwps_cookie_list] output.
• Updated language behavior: when visitor language detection is enabled, frontend preset texts follow visitor language; when disabled, they follow configured frontend/admin translation settings.

1.0.7

• Switched to local Poppins font (Regular, Medium, SemiBold) – removed all Google Fonts dependencies. No external font requests are made by the plugin.
• Added upgrade migration: existing installations with empty or inherited font setting are automatically updated to the Poppins stack.
• Changed font detection in Appearance tab to manual-only: fonts are detected only when the admin clicks "Detect used fonts", preventing automatic remote requests on page load.
• Added "Detect used fonts" button with nonce protection and per-click cache.
• Added translations for new font-detection UI across all 9 supported admin languages.
• Updated text domain slug to match WordPress.org plugin directory slug (web-pixel-studio-cookie-consent-eu).
• Added "External services" section to readme disclosing optional GTM and Matomo remote resource loading as required by WordPress.org guidelines.
• Renamed GTM template files and POT file to match the corrected plugin slug.