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Cookie Law Bar

by richplugins · Privacy & Consent

Also makes 5 other plugins · 114.4K+ installs across the portfolio →

Cookie Law Bar show bottom or top bar to inform users that your website uses cookie according to EU law.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 66 average across 513 Privacy & Consent plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.35, well behind 6.8.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

38 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 8/100
Rating quality 55/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3196 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+27% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

154

now · peak 236

15630d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Cookie Law Bar · #5135 you Cookie Bar · #1925 Simple Cookie Law · #43480 Asesor de Cookies RG · #1189

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.5Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

78per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

9.5y ago

latest release · v1.2.1

3

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.2.1 · 9.5y ago1.2 · 9.6y ago1.1 · 9.6y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 98% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.2 98%
v1.0 2%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “2K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
2K–3K ≈2.9K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2017-09-18 · 1,433 observations

2KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
1.2.1
Last updated
8.8y ago
Added
2016-07-27 · 10 yrs old
Requires WP
2.8
Tested up to
4.7.35
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. annshirley
    8.6y ago

    Works smoothly, unfortunately, it doesn´t give you the option to stop cookies if you´re so inclined.

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  2. Krissieg
    9.2y ago

    Simple to use, just needs another field to control the colour of the link, but otherwise a great plugin. Looks great too. Thanks for your hardwork! This topic was modified 9 years ago by Krissieg.

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  3. Moo Digital
    10.1y ago

    Install it, forget it, love it. It just works (unlike some other well known plugins). Good job.

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  4. richplugins
    10.1y ago

    The most perfect EU law cookie bar plugin!

    Read on wp.org ↗

Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 1.2.1 Bugfix: warnings undefined inxed in Setting page 1.2.1
  2. Version 1.2 Fix incorrect tag version 1.2
  3. Version 1.1 Update readme 1.1

Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, 1 still affects the current version.

  1. 2021-05-24 CVE-2021-47957 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.2.1 No patch available

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2024-06-01 3K+ → 2K+ down after 515 days in tier
  2. 2023-01-03 4K+ → 3K+ down after 1 days in tier
  3. 2023-01-02 3K+ → 4K+ up after 2 days in tier
  4. 2022-12-31 4K+ → 3K+ down

Competes with

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