PN Cookies Manager

PN Cookies Manager is a lightweight, privacy-focused WordPress plugin that helps your website comply with GDPR, CCPA, LGPD and ePrivacy Directive regulations.

Display a fully customizable cookie consent banner, register the cookies your site uses, and let visitors manage their preferences with granular category-based controls.

Cookie Consent Banner

• Fully customizable banner with three layout options: full-width bar, compact box, and floating card.

• Position the banner at the top, bottom, or center of the screen.

• Horizontal alignment control (left, center, right) for box and floating layouts.

• Three action buttons always visible: Accept All, Reject All, and Cookie Settings.

• Background overlay option to focus user attention on the banner.

• Configurable border radius for buttons and banner corners.

• Responsive design that adapts to mobile and tablet screens.

• Smooth open/close animations.

• Re-open floating button so visitors can change their preferences at any time.

Cookie Preferences Panel

• Slide-in settings panel with cookie categories: Necessary, Functional, Analytics, Performance, and Advertising.

• Toggle switches per category (Necessary is always on and cannot be disabled).

• Expandable sections showing the registered cookies for each category with name, duration, and description.

• Accept All and Save Preferences buttons within the panel.

Cookie Registry

• Register the cookies your site uses organized by category.

• Define cookie name, duration, and description for each entry.

• Quick-add preset buttons for common cookies: WordPress defaults, Google Analytics (GA4), Google Ads, Google Merchant, Facebook Pixel, and more.

• “Add all” button to insert all presets for a category at once.

• Smart merge system: new cookies are added to existing registry without deleting previously registered cookies.

• Case-insensitive duplicate detection prevents accidental cookie duplication.

Cookie Scanner

• Automated cookie discovery tool that scans your website pages.

• Select multiple pages to scan simultaneously (pages, posts, custom post types).

• Batch processing with progress indicator showing current page being scanned.

• Automatic categorization of discovered cookies (Necessary, Functional, Analytics, Performance, Advertising).

• One-click import of scanned cookies directly into the Cookie Registry.

• Scan history with ability to view, export (CSV), and delete previous scans.

• Smart import prevents duplicate entries when adding scanned cookies to registry.

Interactive Tutorial

• Step-by-step guided tutorial for first-time users.

• Contextual help highlighting key features and settings.

• Shows on first activation to help users get started quickly.

• Can be dismissed and won’t show again once completed.

Customizable Design

• Full color control: background, text, accept button, reject button, and settings button colors.

• All colors applied via CSS custom properties for consistent theming.

• Admin preview button to see how the banner will look before publishing.

Preventive Script & Iframe Blocking

• Block third-party scripts and iframes from loading before the user gives consent.

• Configurable URL patterns per category (analytics, advertising, performance, functional) with sensible defaults.

• Re-enable scripts and restore iframes automatically after consent is granted.

• MutationObserver intercepts dynamically injected scripts that match blocking patterns.

• Automatic deletion of known tracking cookies (GA, Facebook, HotJar, Clarity, etc.) when a user revokes consent.

Google Consent Mode v2

• Built-in Google Consent Mode v2 integration with Basic and Advanced mode selector.

• Advanced mode: tags load with denied state and update on consent (default). Basic mode: tags are completely blocked until consent.

• Regional consent defaults based on user geolocation (Cloudflare, Vercel, GeoIP headers) with EU/EEA country list.

• Three regional modes: Strict (all denied), Mixed (EU denied, rest granted), Lenient (all granted).

• Outputs default consent state in the page head before any Google tag scripts load.

• Automatically updates consent signals (ad_storage, ad_user_data, ad_personalization, analytics_storage, functionality_storage, personalization_storage) when visitors change their preferences.

• Works with Google Analytics 4, Google Ads, and Google Tag Manager.

Global Privacy Control (GPC)

• Detect the browser GPC signal (navigator.globalPrivacyControl) and automatically apply opt-out consent.

• When GPC is active on a new visitor, analytics and advertising are denied without showing the banner.

• Respects explicit user choices: if a consent cookie already exists, GPC does not override it.

• Configurable toggle in Privacy & Compliance settings.

WP Consent API Integration

• Automatically syncs consent state with the WP Consent API plugin when active.

• Maps plugin categories to WP Consent API types (functional → preferences, analytics → statistics, performance → statistics-anonymous, advertising → marketing).

Individual Consent Proof Logging

• Privacy-safe individual consent records for compliance proof with hashed IP and user agent.

• Each record includes consent hash, policy version, categories, consent type, region, and GPC signal.

• Policy version hash based on banner message and total registered cookie count.

• Export consent log to CSV from the Analytics admin page.

• Configurable retention period with purge function (default 730 days).

Privacy & Compliance

• Configurable consent cookie duration (1-395 days) following GDPR/CNIL/EDPB guidelines (max 13 months recommended).

• Secure flag on consent cookie when site is served over HTTPS.

• Privacy Policy link option in the banner.

• Consent stored in a browser cookie (no server-side tracking).

• SSRF protection in the cookie scanner: URL validation, private IP rejection, SSL verification, and redirect blocking.

• All banner texts are translatable by default; custom text overrides are also supported.

Accessibility

• Full ARIA support: aria-labelledby, aria-describedby, aria-expanded, aria-controls, and role attributes on all interactive elements.

• Focus management: saves and restores focus when opening/closing banner and settings panel.

• Focus trap in the settings panel to prevent tabbing outside the dialog.

• Keyboard navigation: Enter/Space to toggle category sections.

-:focus-visible outline styles on all interactive elements.

• Respects prefers-reduced-motion to disable animations.

• Respects prefers-contrast for enhanced high contrast mode.

Translations

• Fully translation-ready with complete.pot file.

• All default texts (button labels, category names, descriptions) are translatable via standard WordPress i18n.

• Spanish (es_ES) translation included.

• Compatible with translation plugins like Loco Translate and Polylang.

Lightweight & Developer Friendly

• No external dependencies for the front-end banner (jQuery only).

• Deferred script loading for minimal performance impact.

• Clean CSS class naming convention (pn-cookies-manager-*) for easy custom styling.

• Hooks and filters for developer extensibility.