How to Add a Cookie Banner to a WordPress Website

Choose a Cookie Banner tool

If you haven’t chosen a cookie banner tool, there’s plenty of great options out there but we’d love it if you checked out ours! GetTerms is a Google CMP partner with unlimited banner views, per-region banner settings, and a lifetime deal. You can even try our Cookie Banner Generator risk free thanks to our 30-day money-back guarantee. Customize your banner’s design, install it on your website and leave the consent management process to us.

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Setup your cookie banner

Follow our cookie banner setup guide from start to finish. We’ll show you how to generate your banner, customize its design, configure consent behavior by region, and edit the banner text.

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Install the cookie banner WordPress Plugin

We always recommend that you use our plugin to install our banner. It’s the easiest way to make sure our banner runs as early as possible.

To install the GetTerms WordPress plugin, follow the steps below.

1. Navigate to your WordPress dashboard
2. Hover over the ‘Plugins’ link in the left hand side menu and click ‘Add Plugin’
   
3. Use the search bar to find GetTerms
4. You should fine 2 plugins: “GetTerms Cookie Consent & Policies’ and ‘WP Consent API’.
5. If the install button for our plugin isn’t clickable, it means you need to install and activate the WP Consent API plugin. *This is required for our plugin to integrate with WordPress.

What is WP consent API?

WP Consent API is a plugin that shares your visitors’ consent choices with other WordPress plugins and themes.

Many plugins set cookies in their own way, which can make them hard to control with script blocking alone. Without this extra signal, some plugins may run and set cookies before consent is given.

Installing and activating our plugin

1. Once you’ve activated the WP Consent API plugin, you should see the install button for our plugin is now clickable.
2. Click ‘Install Now’ and wait for the button to say ‘Activate’
3. Click the ‘Activate’ button to finish the plugin installation process
   
4. Once our plugin is activated, you should see a new link in the left hand side menu labelled ‘GetTerms’. Click the link to open the plugin settings
5. The plugin will ask for your ‘GetTerms Token’. You’ll find this in your dashboard under the cookie banner installation tab
6. Click ‘Update’ and you should find the our plugin’s page populates with new settings. This means the plugin is successfully installed. All that’s left to do is enable your banner and embed your policies.

Install your cookie banner on your WordPress website

To enable your consent banner, toggle either:

1. 1. Quick add: “Automatically Embed in your chosen language”
      

Manually add: “Embed Widget Manually (Supports multilingual options)”. Click the embed toggle for the language you wish to enable. Only enable one language at a time.

Test that your cookie banner is working correctly

The main functionality of a Cookie Banner is to block scripts when consent for tracking cookies has been denied by the user. You can test whether you Cookie Banner is really blocking cookies using your browsers developer tools.

How to test if your Cookie Banner is blocking cookies