ConsentPaladin is a WordPress plugin that handles cookie compliance completely: a customizable consent banner, automatic blocking of plugins and embeds that set cookies, a generated cookie policy from a real scan of your site, and Google Consent Mode v2. It works with the plugins you already run, from WooCommerce to Elementor, and installs in minutes from the dashboard.
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The blocker recognizes the most common cookie-setting plugins out of the box: WooCommerce, contact form tools, analytics plugins, social embeds, page builders, and chat widgets. You tag each plugin's cookies once by category, and the banner enforces those choices. YouTube and Vimeo embeds are replaced with consent placeholders that load on click.
The plugin scans your site, identifies the cookies each plugin and theme actually sets, and generates a cookie policy page that lists them by category with purpose and duration. Because it is generated from a scan rather than a template, it describes your site accurately, and a monthly rescan keeps it current as you add plugins.
The plugin adds one small script and no render-blocking requests. Blocking heavy third-party embeds until consent usually makes pages faster, not slower. It is compatible with the major caching plugins, and the scanner runs from our servers so scans never load your hosting.
| Capability | ConsentPaladin | Basic alternative |
|---|---|---|
| Blocks plugins and embeds pre-consent | Yes | No |
| Cookie policy generated from real scan | Yes | No |
| Google Consent Mode v2 built in | Yes | No |
| YouTube/Vimeo consent placeholders | Yes | No |
| WooCommerce aware | Yes | No |
| Monthly rescan and policy updates | Yes | No |
Usually not, for one specific reason: most free banners show a notice but do not block anything. GDPR requires that non-essential cookies do not fire before consent, and a banner that lets analytics and marketing cookies load anyway is decoration, not compliance. The blocker is the part that matters, and it is what separates real consent plugins from notice widgets.
Yes, natively. The plugin sets the four required consent signals and updates them when visitors change their choices, so Google Analytics and Ads keep working correctly for EEA traffic, including conversion modeling for declined visitors. No Tag Manager changes are required for the standard setup.
The banner and preference center render independently of your builder's markup, so there is no styling conflict with Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, or Gutenberg. Embeds placed through builder widgets are detected by the scanner and covered by consent placeholders exactly the same as standard embeds in post content.
Yes. The plugin ships with translations for the major European languages, detects the visitor's browser language, and serves the right version automatically. Every string is overridable from the settings screen, and it plays well with WPML and Polylang for fully multilingual sites that need per-language wording control.
It knows which WooCommerce cookies are strictly necessary, like cart and session cookies, and never blocks those. Marketing and analytics layers on top of the store, such as Meta pixel or Google Ads conversion tags, are held until consent. Your checkout keeps working for everyone.
Start with the free consent audit: we scan your WordPress site and show you every cookie your plugins and theme actually set, plus what fires before consent. The plugin version that fits follows from what the audit finds. The audit carries no charge.