Lightweight Cookie Notice – Cookie Banner for Cookie Consent

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 37% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ Steve Shepard

   1.2y ago

   Lightweight and best speed & specs on wphive.com as far as I could tell. I’m very happy with free version, but will upgrade eventually to very cost-effective, affordable Pro version.

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2. ★★★★★ maxence755

   1.5y ago

   Lighweight is key for a wordpress plugin and this one is awesome, fast and pro : you can add any field to turn on off all the cookies you collect, thanks to the dev great job

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3. ★★★★★ Andre

   3.7y ago

   Since a while I was facing caching issues in combination with wp-optimize caused by my other cookie notice plugin on all my websites which couldn’t be fixed although I tried a lot of things. I am so glad that I switched now to Lightweight Cookie Notice which has not only solved the issue. It is also very clean and truely lightweight and has a lot of customizing options. Thank you so much for creating and updating this plugin.

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4. ★★★★★ isites

   5.3y ago

   This plugin working fine. It’s fully customizable. You can modify almost ewerything. But missing “Custom CSS”. You have to add custom CSS to yours stylesheet, but its nothing bad.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.21 June 25, 2026 Consent log submissions and geolocation checks now work correctly on sites using page caching with long cache durations. 1.21
2. — Version 1.20 June 24, 2026 Security fix: Resolved CVE-2026-12272. The W3TC Page Fragment Caching integration now uses a unique per-installation security key instead of a hardcoded value. 1.20
3. — Version 1.19 May 2, 2025 Fixed PHP notice caused by early use of translation functions. 1.19
4. — Version 1.18 March 28, 2025 Fixed an issue where the cookie path attribute was not set correctly. 1.18
5. — Version 1.17 January 16, 2025 The following options have been added to the plugin settings: “Toggle On Color”, “Toggle Off Color”, “Toggle Mixed Color”, “Toggle Disabled Color”. The “Acceptance Rate” value is now calculated using a l 1.17
6. — Version 1.16 December 1, 2024 Resolved CSS style issues introduced by changes in WordPress 6.7 1.16

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0

Translated into 2 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

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

1. 2025-05-04 4K+ → 5K+ up after 338 days in tier
2. 2024-05-31 3K+ → 4K+ up after 198 days in tier
3. 2023-11-15 2K+ → 3K+ up after 260 days in tier
4. 2023-02-28 1K+ → 2K+ up

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• CookieYes – Cookie Banner for Cookie Consent (Easy to setup GDPR/CCPA Compliant Cookie Notice) 1M+ installs · 4.8★ · 5 shared tags A
• Complianz GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent Banner 1M+ installs · 4.7★ · 5 shared tags A
• WPConsent – Cookie Banner & Cookie Consent for Privacy Compliance (GDPR / CCPA / EU Compliance Cookie Notice) 200K+ installs · 4.7★ · 5 shared tags A
• GDPR Cookie Compliance – Cookie Banner, Cookie Consent, Cookie Notice for CCPA, EU Cookie Law 300K+ installs · 4.5★ · 4 shared tags A
• Cookiebot by Usercentrics – Automatic Cookie Banner for GDPR/CCPA & Google Consent Mode 100K+ installs · 4.4★ · 4 shared tags A
• Termly – GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent Banner 80K+ installs · 3.7★ · 4 shared tags B

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Lightweight Cookie Notice – Cookie Banner for Cookie Consent: 5K+ active installs, 5.0★ (4 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/lightweight-cookie-notice-free