Consent management for WordPress — GDPR, CCPA & ePrivacy, autoblocking, Google Consent Mode, Microsoft Consent Mode (Pro), GPC & WP Consent API.
- Installs
- 800,000+
- Rating
- 4.8 (3K)
- Updated
- 16 days ago
WP Consent API
Simple Consent API to read and register the current consent category.
- Active installs
- 200,000+
- #202 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 1.2M
- 1,224,009
- Downloads, 30 days
- 70.1K
- 15.2K in the last 7
- Rating
- 5.0 / 5
- 2 reviews
- Last updated
- 16 days ago
- Oct 15, 2026
- Version
- 2.1.0
- 9 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | October 15, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 5.0 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.4 or newer |
| First published | February 6, 2020 |
| Support, last two months | 1 of 2 threads resolved (50%) |
Reviews
5.0 / 5 from 2 reviews
| 5 stars | 2 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 0 |
| 3 stars | 0 |
| 2 stars | 0 |
| 1 star | 0 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
WP Consent API is a plugin that standardizes the communication of accepted consent categories between plugins. It requires a cookie banner plugin and, at least, one other plugin that supports the WP Consent API.
With this plugin, all supporting plugins can use the same set of methods to read and register the current consent category, allowing consent management plugins and other plugins to work together, improving compliance with privacy laws.
WARNING: the plugin itself will not handle consent. It will show you how many plugins you have without Consent API support and will improve compliance on your site by ensuring smooth communication between cookie banner plugins and plugins that set cookies or track user data.
What problem does this plugin solve?
Currently, it is possible for a consent management plugin to block third-party services like Facebook, Google Maps, Twitter, etc. But if a WordPress plugin places a PHP cookie, a consent management plugin cannot prevent this.
Secondly, some plugins integrate the tracking code on the clientside in javascript files that, when blocked, break the site.
Or, if such a plugin’s javascript is minified, causing the URL to be unrecognizable and won’t get detected by an automatic blocking script.
Lastly, the blocking approach requires a list of all types of URL’s that tracks data. A generic API where plugins adhere to can greatly
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
Does this plugin block third party services from placing cookies?
No, this plugin provides a framework through which plugins can know if they are allowed to place cookies or track user data.
The plugin requires both a consent management plugin for consent management and a plugin that follows the consent level as can be read from this API.
How should I go about integrating my plugin?
For each action that places cookies or tracks user data, you should consider what type of tracking takes place. There are 5 consent categories:
functional, statistics-anonymous, statistics, preferences, marketing. These are explained below. Your code should check if consent has been given for the applicable category. If no cookie banner plugin is active,
the Consent API will always return with consent (true).
What is the difference between the consent categories?
Statistics:
Cookies or any other form of local storage that are used exclusively for statistical purposes (Analytics Cookies).
Statistics-anonymous:
Cookies or any other form of local storage that are used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes (Anonymous Analytics Cookies), that are placed on a first party domain, and that do not allow identification of particular individuals.
Marketing:
Latest changelog entry
Change: internally unused wp_set_cookie() function dropped in favor of upcoming WordPress core wp_set_cookie() function.
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin.