A simple, developer-friendly WordPress plugin that informs users about cookie usage on the site, and lets them both opt in and select their preferences.

There are many WordPress plugins and services out there that do fancy things with cookie consents. We didn't find one we really liked that was both really lightweight and developer friendly. So we created our own.

This plugin isn't meant for the masses who want tons of configurable options in the admin (although it will work and look fine out of the box). Many use this plugin with the default styling because it is light-weight and good-looking. While you can modify texts and choose between three positions in the admin, any more advanced styling requires CSS.

For the developer who wants the functionality and being able to conveniently override the styles and features without bloat—here's a plugin for you. You have filters and actions available to you at every step of the process. From locking down the editing of texts, to changing every option.

The plugin works out of the box with minimal settings. However here are a few things you will probably want to be aware about.

You can set the URL to the cookie policy page in the customizer under the "Cookie Banner" section, or use the filter ilcc_policy_url to return your own link.

By default we will get the privacy policy page from Settings > Privacy.

Out of the box, the plugin includes a lightweight stylesheet with three placement options (overlay, top and takeover). If you don't want to use our default style, you can easily prevent us from including the styles and style it yourself.

Just define the following filter somewhere in your code, such as the theme functions.php file:

apply_filters( 'ilcc_load_stylesheet', '__return_false' );

Additionally, for quick theming to your theme's custom colors, we support a series of CSS variables set on body.has-ilcc-banner like so:

body.has-ilcc-banner {
    --ilcc-background-color: #ffffff;
	--ilcc-text-color: #1e1e1e;
	--ilcc-link-color: #1e1e1e;
	--ilcc-link-color-hover: #555555;
	--ilcc-close-button: black;
	--ilcc-close-button-hover: #444444;
	--ilcc-close-button-text: white;
	--ilcc-close-button-hover-text: white;
	--ilcc-settings-background-color: #f9f9f9;
	--ilcc-settings-border: #eeeeee;
	--ilcc-toggle-background-color: #e6e6e6;
	--ilcc-toggle-handle-background-color: #b3b3b3;
	--ilcc-radius: 4px;
}

If you would like to add your own style in addition to the three offered, you can override the style setting with the ilcc_style filter. This would let you style outside the three core positions.

You can change all texts from the Customizer under the "Cookie Banner" section. Alternatively, you can use our extensive set of filters to return values before rendering. See the list of filters below.

Just set their value somewhere in your code, such as in the functions.php file of your theme:

function ilcc_modify_consent_text( $text ) {
    $text = __( 'This is my custom text about how we use cookies.', 'YOURTEXTDOMAIN' );
    return $text;
}

add_filter( 'ilcc_consent_text', 'ilcc_modify_consent_text' );

function ilcc_modify_accept_text( $text ) {
    $text = __( 'I Accept', 'YOURTEXTDOMAIN' );
    return $text;
}

add_filter( 'ilcc_accept_text', 'ilcc_modify_accept_text' );

ilcc_loaded - Runs on constructor.

before_ilcc_init - Runs before we have run any init actions.

ilcc_init - Runs when all init hooks have run.

ilcc_accept_text - Set the accept button text.

ilcc_consent_text - Set the consent text. Has $policy_url as argument.

ilcc_policy_url - Allows you to modify the Policy URL. Has the url from the options as argument.

ilcc_style - Allows you to set your own style name.

ilcc_edit_texts_capability - Allows you to modify which capability is required for editing the texts in the cookie banner customizer option. Takes the current setting as the first argument.

ilcc_edit_style_capability - Allows you to modify which capability is required for editing the cookie banner style in the customizer. Defaults to edit_theme_options.

ilcc_load_stylesheets - (bool) Set if you want the stylesheets to be loaded or not. Defaults to true.

ilcc_enable_customizer - Return false to disable all the customizer settings, if you'd like to prevent any user from changing any of the settings.

ilcc_preferences_cookie_name - The name of the cookie that stores if a visitor has set their cookie preferences.

ilcc_categories_cookie_name - The name of the cookie that stores the categories the visitor has opted in to.

ilcc_remember_duration - How many days to remember the consent for. Defaults to 90.

ilcc_tracker_settings_enabled - Return false to disable the tracker customization settings screen.

ilcc_is_active_on_page - Return false to hide the banner from loading. Can be used to prevent the banner from loading on certain pages or templates.

Included in the package are complete translations for the following languages:

• Lithuanian (Thanks @batiufa)
• Swedish
• Occitan (Thanks Mejans)
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Hungarian
• Spanish
• German
• Italian
• Slovenian
• Greek (Thanks Michail)

A complete .pot file is available in the translations/ directory. If you use and translate this little plugin, please send us the translation so it can be included!

Even better is if you use Translate.WordPress.org for your translations. That way, they will be automatically distributed with the WordPress updater.

However, in some locales, the work with the Translate site is not up to speed. We will continue to support bundled translations because of this.

This plugin was created by Bernskiold Media [http://www.bernskioldmedia.com].

This plugin is licensed under GPL. Feel free to use it in personal and commercial projects as you wish.