Cookie banner

WP Octo Cookie banner shows a cookie consent banner on a site and records what a visitor agreed to. It assists you in meeting your own legal duty as the site owner — it does not make a site compliant on its own, and no wording on this page should be read as legal advice.

The module is available only where your package includes it. A site whose package does not include the Cookie banner shows why, instead of the switch.

Setting it up

On a site's Cookie banner page, once the module is on for that site:

• Mode — Balanced shows the banner and lets non-necessary scripts wait for a visitor's consent; Strict blocks every non-necessary script until the visitor chooses.
• Optional categories — Analytics, Marketing and Functional, whichever the site actually uses. Necessary cookies are always kept without asking.
• Banner position — bottom left, bottom right, or a bar across the top or bottom.
• Google Consent Mode v2 — reports the visitor's choice to Google's own consent signal, when the site uses Google's tools.
• Retention — how long a visitor's choice is remembered before the banner asks again.
• Texts — the banner's own wording, per language, pre-filled with sensible defaults; change only what your site needs to say differently. A preview shows the banner's copy as you edit it.

Selecting Publish to the site sends the change to the site. The site confirms or, if something about the request no longer matches what it has, explains why in its own words on this page.

The last 30 days

Once the site has reported at least once, the Cookie banner page shows how many visitors saw the banner, accepted everything, rejected everything, or made their own choice, and how many accepted each optional category — over the last 30 days. Before a site's first report, the page says so plainly rather than showing a table of zeroes.

Unknown scripts

Many common analytics, marketing and video-embed scripts are recognised automatically, so the banner already knows which category they belong to. A script the site loads that isn't recognised yet shows up under Unknown scripts, along with when it was first seen and on how many pages.

An unclassified script doesn't stop the banner from working; it just means nobody has said yet what it's for, so it can't be offered to a visitor as a choice. This is not legal advice, and having every script classified does not by itself make a site compliant — deciding what each script is used for remains the site owner's own responsibility.

Choosing a category for a script takes one click. Once you're ready, select Publish to the site to send the update; the script won't show as unknown again.