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Choosing the right cookie banner for your WordPress website can significantly influence user experience and page performance. We recently conducted an analysis comparing Banner 1 and Banner 2 Lighthouse scores of our Beautiful Cookie Banner Plugin. How we test We used a script to calculate the median lighthouse metric. We installed our Plugins in an… Continue reading Which Cookie Banner Impacts Page Performance Less?

As a provider of consent management tools, we spend a lot of time thinking about how cookie banners work. And one thing we’ve noticed is that not all cookie banners behave the same way when it comes to privacy. That might sound ironic, but it’s true. If you asked yourself already “How to load a… Continue reading A Thought on Cookie Banners and Remote Scripts: Why Local Hosting Matters

Beautiful Cookie Banner premium add-on stands out in the WordPress Cookie Banner plugin market with its low price. Here’s why it’s so affordable: This streamlined approach keeps Beautiful Cookie Banner budget-friendly, making it ideal for users prioritizing affordability and function. No Compromise on Quality: Despite its low price, Beautiful Cookie Banner includes advanced features like… Continue reading Why Beautiful Cookie Banner is so affordable

There are dozens of cookie banner plugins for WordPress. Almost all of them show a banner. They differ in what happens behind it: which scripts run before the visitor decides, how the choice reaches Google and other tools, where the banner itself is loaded from, and what it costs over the years. This checklist covers… Continue reading How to choose a WordPress cookie banner plugin: a checklist

Google Consent Mode v2 passes your visitors’ consent choices to Google tags such as Google Analytics 4, Google Ads and Floodlight. Whether it works is not visible on the page itself. This guide shows five ways to check it, from the official Tag Assistant to a quick look in the browser console, and lists the… Continue reading How to test and check Google Consent Mode v2

How to make sure your banner works always and as expected? This is a very important topic, as it might have severe legal implications if the banner is not working. This article describes how you can set up a free monitor and alerting for your cookie banner with this really great cookie scanner: cookie-scanner.com. Testing… Continue reading Cookie Banner Test & Monitor

What happend? In the versions of the main plugin before 2.10.1 there was a vulnerability which allowed attackers to inject code in the option fields of the plugin. It was used mainly to inject ads. The premium add-on was not affected. Is it safe now? Yes. I had the plugin checked by https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com and everything… Continue reading How to fix vulnerability exploit from versions <2.10.1

This guide adds a cookie consent banner to a WordPress website with the free Beautiful Cookie Banner plugin. It takes about ten minutes: install the plugin, turn the banner on, choose what visitors can consent to, adjust the design and texts, connect your tracking tools and test the result. Other plugins work in a similar… Continue reading How to add a cookie banner to a WordPress website