Beginner-friendly

solution for the cookie hassle – for everyone

Guided configuration

After installation, we will guide you through the setup step by step. With easy to understand explanations.

Fully translated

Our WordPress plugin is translated into English, German (informal and formal), French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch (informal and formal), Czech, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian Bokmål, Finnish, Greek, Romanian, Hungarian and Slovak.

Scan your website

Automatically search your entire website. Find used services with templates, CDNs with explanations of how to use them legally and embedded external URLs effortlessly.

Free version available

Start at no cost and pay only when you really need additional features. All features for a legally compliant setup are included in the free version.

Checklist for potential legally compliant setup

A checklist shows you all the steps to be able to set up your cookie banner in a legally compliant way. Written in non-legal language for everyone.

Support with focus on solutions

You have questions? We are here for you with people who really care about your problem. We have real people, not AI chatbots, to answer your questions. Promised!

Consent Management

we take care of compliant consents

Cookies and processing of personal data

We obtain consents for you in accordance with the ePrivacy Directive and GDPR (suitable for Swiss DSG as well). For more than just cookies!

Technical specifications of HTTP cookies and cookie-like information

You can store all necessary information about HTTP cookies, Local Storage, Session Storage and IndexedDB.

Youth protection according to GDPR

We take care that also minors can give consents on your website according to Art. 8 GDPR. With support for country-specific age limits. Avoid ineffective consent for underage website visitors!

Automatically obtain of new consents

You changed something on the cookie banner? We will notify you automatically when you need to get a new consent!

Using CDNs in a privacy-compliant way

Content Delivery Networks (CDN) help your website load faster. However, using such networks in a legally compliant manner is linked to extensive legal requirements in the EU. We guide you through all the necessary steps for many popular CDNs!

160+ service and 130+ content blocker templates

We’ve already collected all the necessary technical and legal stuff for 160+ popular services, so you can avoid the hassle.

Execution of opt-in and opt-out scripts

After the consent or its revocation HTML/JavaScript code can be executed per service.

Consent to data processing in insecure third countries

For data processing in unsafe third countries in terms of data protection, we take into account adequacy decisions (including the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework for the USA), standard contractual clauses and, as a last resort, consent in accordance with Art. 49 GDPR.

Cookie Policy automatically generated

You don’t have an obligation to provide a cookie policy on your website. However, it strengthens transparency and thus trust for the website visitor. Generate the document automatically from the information in your cookie banner!

Accepting all cookies for bots

For more visibility in search engines, bots can automatically consent and see the full content of your website.

Individual groups for services

Make it easy for your visitors to opt-in by grouping services together. Automatically suggested groups for services with templates.

Legal links

Website visitors must be able to view, change and revoke their consent at any time. Fulfil these obligations with legal links as a sticky element, links in WordPress menus or anywhere on your website with shortcodes.

Obtain consent without a cookie banner (banner-less)

Websites that only use visual services requiring consent, such as YouTube or Google Maps, can use consent management without a cookie banner. Obtain legally compliant consent, but without an annoying cookie banner on the website!

Hide cookie banner legally compliant

Legal notice (imprint) and privacy policy must be accessible without cookie banner. On other pages, e.g. landing pages, conversation rates increase. Works with us quite simply!

Use of “Do Not Track” header

Don’t annoy your visitors who are already signaling that they don’t want to consent. You can respect the “Do Not Track” HTTP-header.

Documentation

truly fully documented consents

Documentation of consents with revision

All services, its consents, service groups, settings and design customizations are saved. View retrospectively how consent was obtained through an interactive visualization of the cookie banner or content blocker. Fulfill the duty of proof according to GDPR!

Storage with data economy and efficient storage

Documentation of consent is stored highly efficiently directly in the WordPress database. In accordance with legal requirements, documentation is automatically deleted after the limitation period for the data storage obligation. Manual deletion on request is possible at any time.

Statistics about consents

Necessarily documented information about the consents are aggregated for statistics. This enables you to optimize the cookie banner for the highest possible consent rate or, for example, to extrapolate your data in Google Analytics.

Content Blocker

load services only with consent

Block already integrated link, script and iframe HTML tags

Already included elements by your theme or plugins can be blocked based on the HTML tag. Works for every HTML element on initial load of your website!

@font-face fonts blocking

Inline loaded fonts from external servers can be blocked fine granular. You can be privacy-compliant even if Google Fonts can not be disabled in your theme!

Visual content blockers

They ask for consent from visitors if they have declined services in the cookie banner. Replace e.g. YouTube videos with similar-looking privacy-compliant imitations.

URL blocking

Elements that may only be loaded after consent can be blocked based on the URL. Works also for inline scripts and retina images.

Inline style splitting

Some page builders download files in inline styles for which you need consent. We split styles so that your website loads correctly while listening for consents.

Automatic video playback after consent

If your visitor allows the loading of an external video only via a content blocker, he must start the video manually afterwards. We save him the click and start YouTube, Vimeo and more videos automatically.

Custom element blocking

You can block elements based on custom defined rule e.g. via their CSS class. With an easy to understand and flexible syntax. Not only for software developers.

Privacy-compliant lazy loading

Embeds are post-loaded after the consent check depending on the viewport of your website visitor, which makes your initial page load faster.

Content Blocker connected with services

Each content blocker is associated with one or more services. With it, content is automatically unblocked when consent is given in the cookie banner.

Design

always fits perfectly into your website

Cookie banner and content blocker layout

You can customize the design of your cookie banner with more than 200 options. So, it will fit perfectly with your corporate design!

Live preview of design and text changes

All visual changes to your cookie banner will be displayed live on your website in the WordPress Customizer. Without annoying reloading!

20+ cookie banner design presets

Don’t waste your time tinkering with the design forever. Just use one of our templates. There is something for every taste!

Accessibility

accessible for everyone on your website

Compliance with European Accessibility Act

The European Accessibility Act requires most website operators to have an accessible website by June 2025. We meet requirements and local implementations of all supported countries.

WCAG 2.2 Level AA fulfilled

Our cookie banner and content blocker have been technically engineered to comply with the WCAG 2.2 Level AA standard, ensuring an accessible and user-friendly experience for all website visitors.

Accessibility score for design settings

Your design settings are evaluated using an accessibility score to ensure you comply with legal requirements. All design presets are of course accessible according to WCAG 2.2 Level AA.

Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF)

obtain standardized consents

TCF compatibility

Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) is a standard of the European digital marketing industry association IAB Europe. It allows standardized consent to be obtained. We support the widely used standard TCF 2.2 and newer.

Configuration with user interface

TCF is mostly very technical and can be set up only with code. Not with us! You can configure all important features, vendors etc. in one interface with understandable explanations of the terms used in the standard.

Google certified CMP

Real Cookie Banner is a CMP, certified by Google for AdSense and IAB Europe, fully implementing TCF standard requirements. Display AdSense ads based on the latest requirements, including automatic TCF vendor configurations for AdSense.

Google Consent Mode

obtain consents according to Digital Market Act

Google Consent Mode compatibility

Google Consent Mode is a standard used by Google to transmit consents. Since March 2024, it is mandatory for many Google services due to the Digital Market Act. We support the standard in v2 and newer versions.

Explicit consent for consent types

Purposes (consent types) are displayed transparently in the cookie banner and consent is explicitly obtained. Website visitors have the option of consenting to individual purposes on an informed and free basis.

Google Tag Manager integration

Consents for all services are transferred via so-called “additional consents” so that tags can be triggered via the consent management of Google Tag Manager after consent has been given.

Special Features

made for professional users

Geo-restriction

Cookie banners are not necessary for users from all countries. Internationally oriented websites can decide per country whether a cookie banner should be displayed. This way you avoid unnecessary distraction from your content!

Support for Google Tag Manager and Matomo Tag Manager

Load your tag manager in a privacy-friendly way only after consent. Then process consents directly in your tag manager as events (with fallback for visitors without consent for the tag manager).

Consent Forwarding

Forward a visitor’s consents and avoid multiple consents from a visitor on multiple websites of your company (with WordPress Multisites or multiple WordPress installations; forwarding as one-way sync or two-way sync of consents).

Technical

perfection in detail – for WordPress

Support for multilingual websites

Your cookie banner also works in multilingual websites with WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress and Weglot. We have built explicit integrations for these plugins.

Automatic deletion of 1st-party cookies

In the event of an opt-out, 1st-party cookies can be automatically deleted on the client- and server-side to ensure due diligence.

Import and export

All settings and consents can be exported at any time. Use already defined settings in new websites and save time if you are an agency building many websites!

Native solution in WordPress

Real Cookie Banner is installed in your WordPress. Consents are processed and stored exclusively on your server. Nothing is downloaded from the cloud in the browser of your visitors!

Support for automatic flushing of all known page caches

After a change to the cookie banner or content blocker, we automatically clear your page cache plugin. No more problems with outdated caches!

Support for WordPress Multisites

You use a WordPress Mulisite? No problem! Real Cookie Banner also works with such a setup.

PageSpeed Insights optimized

Loading time of your website matters! Real Cookie Banner is optimized for PageSpeed Insights, Lighthouse and Web Vitals. You can achieve a PageSpeed Score of 100 with an active cookie banner.

Anti-Ad-Blocker system

Cookie banners are annoying and many people block them. We have implemented special mechanisms that make your cookie banner almost impossible to block. Because you should get your consents!

API for developers

You want to extend Real Cookie Banner? We have documented WordPress actions & filters and our REST API for you.