Cookie consent for WordPress, without the setup headache.

Set up in about five minutes

Most consent plugins hand you a blank settings page and a long afternoon. TidyConsent does the homework first:

1. Install the free plugin on your WordPress site. Eleven common tools — Google Analytics, Tag Manager and Ads, Meta Pixel, Microsoft Clarity, Hotjar, and the LinkedIn, TikTok, Pinterest, X and Microsoft advertising tags — are held back until each visitor chooses, from the first page view. The settings screen shows you which ones it found.
2. Run the scan. Enter the service address (https://api.tidyconsent.com) under Settings → TidyConsent and press Run scan. It reads your public home page and lists the known trackers and plugins it finds, in plain English.
3. Apply the proposal. Your banner then asks visitors only about the kinds of tools your site really uses, naming each one, and your cookie policy lists them. Nothing changes on your site until you say so.

What you get

• A banner that looks like your site — pick a bar, a corner card, or a centred box; light, dark, or automatic; your brand colour; and watch a live preview as you choose. No CSS. It can even take its colours straight from your theme.
• Readable by design — whatever colours you choose, text stays legible, and Accept and Reject always look the same, so visitors get a fair choice.
• Google Consent Mode v2 — your visitors' choices are passed to Google's tags as consent signals.
• Automatic detection and configuration — the known trackers on your site are found, sorted into categories, and held back until a visitor allows them, instead of you sorting them by hand.
• Works behind a page cache — every visitor is sent the same page with trackers switched off; they are switched on in the visitor's own browser, only after that visitor says yes.
• A generated cookie policy page — written from what your site actually uses.
• A consent log — visitor choices recorded, with CSV export when you need to show your work.

Flat pricing. No pageview meter.

Pro is one flat price per year. Your bill never changes just because your site had a good month — no pageview meter, no per-visitor charges.

Your license key is shown as soon as payment completes.

The plugin itself is free — download it and take the five-minute setup for a spin first.

Questions

Does it work with a caching plugin or CDN?

Yes. Every visitor is sent the same page with the known tools switched off, and each visitor's choice is applied in their own browser. If a performance plugin combines your JavaScript into one file, exclude the tracker scripts from that feature so TidyConsent can still see them.

Which tools does it hold back?

Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google Ads, Meta Pixel, Microsoft Clarity, Hotjar, LinkedIn Insight Tag, TikTok Pixel, Pinterest Tag, X Pixel, and Microsoft Advertising — whether added as a script tag or pasted as the vendor's standard snippet. A tool that is not on this list is not held back.

Can I make it match my brand?

Yes, from the settings screen, without code: position, colours, button colour, corners and font, with a live preview. Choose "Match my theme" and it uses your theme's own colours; choose "Automatic" and each visitor gets the light or dark version their device prefers.

Do I need Pro?

No. The banner, blocking, Google Consent Mode, cookie policy, consent log and manual scan are all in the free plugin, with nothing locked.

What happens when a visitor changes their mind?

They can reopen the preferences at any time. Switching a category off removes that category's known cookies and reloads the page without those tools. A choice is asked for again after about six months.

Does this make my site legally compliant?

No tool can promise that. TidyConsent gives you the mechanics — asking first, honouring the answer, and keeping a record — and you remain responsible for how your site uses them.