Any free WordPress plugins currently using CookieConsent v3? What do you use for GDPR cookie control on WP?

[KingWebsites]

I've had a look around the WP Plugin ecosphere and it's a complete mess regarding cookie consent plugins. So many companies asking for quite a lot of money to deliver some relatively simple services. My main cookies would be Google Analytics (via the SiteKit plugin, with WP Consent API installed) and YouTube embeds.

After lots of testing I'm either going to use Pressidium or write something myself that uses CookieConsent v3.

Pressidium seems to be the best option but it's still using CookieConsent v2. It doesn't block iFrames but as most sites I build only have YouTube videos as possible GDPR-clashing embeds I think a simple change to make all these iframe links point to the www.youtube-nocookie.com URL instead will suffice. Does Pressidium + YouTube url rewrites seems like a sensible solution for simple sites?

Once a user clicks play on a nocookie YouTube URL I believe tracking cookies are added, so I could add some code that checks to see if cookies have been accepted, else display a warning message above the video.

Alternatively I could look though the discussions and issue threads here to help me build my own solution using CookieConsent v3 and iframemanager but that could end up being a bit of a time sink.

What do you use on your WordPress sites? Thanks in advance.

[Crane86]

I was also looking for something that you're looking for and saw your post.
I also saw @codewithzac who wrote a plugin as well.
(https://github.com/codewithzac/wordpress-cookieconsent-loader)

Anyway, an official plugin for wordpress that includes both Cookies Consent v3 and iFrame Manager would be really nice I don't know if @orestbida might consider this. 🤓

[KingWebsites]

That would be great. I have detailed how I converted all types of iframes on WordPress to use iframemanager here:
orestbida/iframemanager#64

I'm successfully using that in conjunction with Pressidium Cookie Consent (uses Cookies Consent v2) but I'm having difficulty on the Google Analytics front. Now I know why all those other WP solutions cost money :)

[codewithzac]

Thanks for the callout @Crane86! 😁

@KingWebsites, my recommendation is to not use WP plugins for things like Google Analytics. These types of tags should be controlled via a tag manager. Google Tag Manager is the usual choice for a free tag manager, and the excellent GTM4WP plugin is a great way of getting it connected to your website.

There are a million different guides out there for configuring Google Analytics within GTM, so some quick online research will help you out there. To get consent working within GTM, I wrote something for that too - https://github.com/codewithzac/gtm-consent-for-cookieconsent

[jasperf]

I am working on a plugin at https://github.com/imagewize/simple-cookie-consent based on this Cookie Consent V3. Still in beta. Current version check for basic Google cookies and requires coding for additional cookies or cookie categories. Cookies management from dashboard not done yet. Pull request for that.

[Nikodemsky]

https://github.com/pressidium/pressidium-cookie-consent runs on v2, but it's modified and compliant even with GCM. Can't say that plugin owner/creator is active one, but it's suffice for most cases.