Cookie Bar

Description

A simple, lightweight WordPress plugin for displaying a discreet notification bar that is dismissable and the dismissal is saved by cookie. Perfect for implementing the EU cookie law (GDPR)!

The Cookie Bar plugin creates a small bar at the bottom of the website with a short customizable message about cookies and an accept button. Once a visitor has accepted the Cookie Bar, it then disappears.

Feel free to try out the plugin through our installation of Cookie Bar.

Troubleshooting: If you or your visitors are using an adblocker that can block cookie bars, the bar may not show up. Whitelist your website in your adblocker’s browser add-on/extension.

Screenshots

Installation

Add the plugin by uploading the zip file to your WordPress admin area > Plugins > Add New or by installing it from the WordPress Plugin directory.
Activate the plugin and go to Settings > Cookie Bar.
Configure it as you would like.
Save.
That’s all!

Reviews

Wonderful easy solution

LinuxArchitect June 2, 2024 1 reply

I’m a big fan of open source, especially when it is such a clean and easy solution as compared to the dozens (hundreds?) of other options. This is a grand total of 410 lines of code to review for security and performance issues. I certainly could have written this, but I’m so glad I did not have to… Now I just have to craft the dang cookie-policy page itself. Hint: look at sites that have their policy pages published under a Creative Commons license. I’m looking at you, Wikipedia. 345 1143 15143 cookie-bar.php 30 90 1150 js/cookie-bar.js 5 8 139 wpml-config.xml 30 58 556 css/cookie-bar.css 410 1299 16988 total

Discrete, effective & so simple

180turnaroundmarketing October 26, 2023 1 reply

This is by far, the best simple & discrete cookie compliance plugin. Love the color & text customization options. I only wish that either the disclaimer text had adjustible padding options so that compliance accessibility icons don’t obscure the text, or even better, if it had an accessibility button built in to stay on screen even after cookies are acknowledged.

The plugin works great. It uses no third-party sites or memberships…

65Erik65 December 4, 2022 1 reply

It’s a really good plugin! It doesn’t use lots of resources or third-party sites and I like that it’s open source. There are a couple of things I’d like to see: I would like to be able to set the bar to the middle of the screen. Change size of both the bar (wide & height). Change font size.

Simple and Unobtrusive!

cats02nb September 26, 2022

Exactly what I need! Glad you continue support of the plug-in.

Perfect

Sten April 23, 2021

I needed simple GDPR cookie bar and this plugin is the best + lightweight. U can write any message to your visitors in any language with hyperlinks. U can set button colour, but im very satisfied with default colors ??

minimalistic. open source. excactly what I was looking for…

princesshorsepower January 21, 2021

Thank you so much for this minimalistic plugin. There are so many plugins out there, providing senseless features which no internet user wants to have. I think all this Cookie consent should be implemented in a browser not in every single site in the internet. But since we have to do it, the simpliest solution it the best.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

Version 2.1

1. XSS vulnerability fix.

Version 2.0

1. New expiration options. Choose between custom (in days) or never expire.
2. New option to display the Cookie Bar at the top of your website.
3. Three new colour options (Button Font Colour, Bar Background Colour, Bar Font Colour).
4. New option to hide the Cookie Bar for logged in users.
5. Cookie Bar Settings link added in Plugins page.
6. Mobile optimisation.
7. Text improvements.
8. PHP bug fix.

Version 1.8.9

1. Sanitize the output. Fix XSS vulnerability.

Version 1.8.7

1. Bug fix v5.3.

Version 1.8

1. Fix compatibility issue.

Version 1.7

1. Added i18n internationalization support.

Version 1.6

1. Attempt to resolve possible caching issue with cookie.

Version 1.5

1. Color Picker added.

Version 1.4

1. Option to change button colour.

Version 1.3.5

1. Default values added.

Version 1.2

1. Initial public release.