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Warder Cookie Consent review: a new, free GDPR-only plugin

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Warder Cookie Consent is a free WordPress plugin that wraps the CookieConsent v3 library in a settings screen. It blocks tagged scripts before consent from your own server, with about 18 KB of gzipped script and no external requests. It keeps no consent records, sends no Google Consent Mode signals and has no CCPA flow.

WordPress pluginPrior script blockingOpen-source licenceNo external account

Our verdict on Warder Cookie Consent

Warder Cookie Consent fits a small European-facing adult WordPress site that wants CookieConsent’s banner without writing JavaScript, and needs neither Google Consent Mode nor consent records. It is not built for US privacy laws, and with fewer than ten active installs and no reviews, it has no track record yet.

Warder Cookie Consent listing in the WordPress plugin directory, showing the preferences modal with Strictly Necessary and Performance and Analytics toggles, the Download button and version 2.2.1
Warder Cookie Consent

What Warder Cookie Consent leaves out

The author lists the gaps up front: no consent log, no Google Consent Mode v2 signals, no automatic cookie scanner, no CCPA “Do Not Sell” flow and no automatic translation of the text you enter. The visitor’s choice lives in the cc_cookie browser cookie for 182 days, and nothing is written to your database. For a US site, the missing Do Not Sell flow and Consent Mode rule it out.

What it does include: a banner, a preferences modal per category, cookie lists per category that are cleared when consent is withdrawn, and a floating button in any of four corners. Non-necessary categories stay unticked until the visitor chooses.

Holding back ExoClick or TrafficStars tags

WooCommerce order attribution and SourceBuster are rewritten to text/plain automatically. Any other tag, ExoClick or TrafficStars included, needs type="text/plain" and data-category added by hand, or its WordPress script handle registered through the warder_blocked_scripts filter. Iframe blocking is not documented. The plugin entered the WordPress directory in June 2026, needs PHP 8.0, is GPL-licensed and has every feature free.

Warder Cookie Consent strengths and limitations

Strengths

  • No external requests.
  • Free, no paid tier.
  • Small script, about 18 KB gzipped.

Limitations

  • No consent log, no Consent Mode.
  • No CCPA flow.
  • Fewer than ten installs.

Warder Cookie Consent or WPConsent

WPConsent has more than 200,000 installs, a free edition with a scanner and prior blocking for recognized trackers, and paid tiers with consent logs and IAB TCF v2.3. Warder is smaller and entirely free, but leaves logs, Consent Mode and scanning out. A site that may need records later starts on WPConsent.

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