Show Me The Cookies

Description

Show Me The Cookies displays all current cookies your site is using. Once activated, you can find this list under Appearance – Cookies.

Furthermore you can display this list to your visitors by placing the shortcode [cookies] into any post or page.

WordPress uses several cookies under the hood by default. If you’d like to filter these out, you can use the shortcode [cookies-nowp]. If you like, you can replace the default separator between the cookie name and its value by adding your own string between the opening and closing shortcode tags, for example [cookies] ==> [\cookies].

This plugin is based on code by David Artiss, who kindly made it available on GitHub. I’ve wrapped it up into this standalone plugin.

To find out more about what cookies are and what can be done with them, please read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie

Screenshots

Installation

1. Either: Upload the entire folder cookies to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Or: download the ZIP file, then head over to Plugins – Add New – Install, then browse to your file
3. Or: from Plugins – Add New, search for “show me the cookies”, to find this plugin and hit “install”
4. Then: Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
5. You can your cookies under Appearance – Cookies

FAQ

None so far.

Reviews

Very nice!

apventura January 15, 2023

Thank you very much for this clean and very useful plugin! It helps me a lot. It proves that simplicity is king! I suggest a little improvement to author: when there is no cookies to show, the plugin should return a string like “no cookies to show”. Good work!

Great idea – but important information is missing

Martin Sauter July 26, 2021

If you need to know which cookies are created by your WP website (because you need to set up a GDPR-compliant cookie banner, for example), then this plugin comes in handy. However, in the current version it does not display the information which component/script creates a specific cookies, which would be crucial in certain situations.

Simple and effective

Gerrardfisher July 17, 2020

Simple to install, clear list of functional cookies on my site (which is hard to track using the inspect function on browsers because some come and go as pages load up) This plugin really helped me to nail down my cookie control and opt-in settings on my site. Thank you!

perfect for the cookie crumbs

TLCJohn April 2, 2019

Hi there Jay, Thank you for this great little plugin. It is great for showing the list of cookies that are om a WordPress site. This really make our lives much easier. The plugin is really sweet. Cheers, John

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

1.0

• Initial Release
• based on code by David Artiss (thanks, David!)