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Konstantinos Pappas edited this page May 26, 2023 · 4 revisions

Pressidium Cookie Consent makes it easy to add a stylish, customizable cookie consent banner to your website and conditionally load third-party scripts (analytics, performance, targeting, etc.) based on the user-selected preferences to help you comply with EU GDPR cookie law, CCPA, and similar regulations.

Requirements

  • WordPress 6.0 or later
  • PHP 7.4 or later

Installation

Automatic installation

Automatic installation is the easiest option — WordPress will handle the file transfer, and you won’t need to leave your web browser.

  1. Log in to your WordPress dashboard
  2. Navigate to the “Plugins” menu
  3. Search for “Pressidium Cookie Consent”
  4. Click “Install Now” and WordPress will take it from there
  5. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu on WordPress

Manual installation

  1. Upload the entire pressidium-cookie-consent folder to the wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu on WordPress

Setting it up for development

  1. Install Composer dependencies

    composer install
    
  2. Install NPM dependencies

    npm install
    
  3. Build the plugin

    npm run build
    

    or start watching for changes

    npm start
    

About the plugin

This is a free and open source WordPress plugin developed by Pressidium®. Pressidium offers Managed WordPress hosting for web professionals designed to optimize the performance, security, and scalability of WordPress websites. With a strong emphasis on reliability, Pressidium utilizes high-available architecture to ensure your website’s uptime.

Under the hood, it utilizes this vanilla JavaScript cookie consent by Orest Bida.

Getting started

Once the plugin is installed and activated, the cookie consent modal will start running with its default values out of the box. You can adjust its settings by navigating to wp-admin → “Cookie Consent”.

For more information about configuring the plugin, refer to the Configuration section of this wiki.