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Pressidium Cookie Consent

by pressidium · Privacy & Consent

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Lightweight, user-friendly and customizable cookie consent banner to help you comply with the EU GDPR cookie law and CCPA regulations.

How scoring works →
79 Health · B
Maintenance 76/100
Rating quality 90/100
Support 70/100

79 health vs 66 average across 513 Privacy & Consent plugins

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.

79 / 100

Well optimized

Biggest win: Support resolution

Update recency 85/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 88/100
Listing tuning 100/100
Support resolution 0/100

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Daily downloads

Since 2023-06-20 · 1,167 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+21% vs prior 30d
77Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

2.0K

now · peak 10.0K

2K30d 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

Pressidium Cookie Co · #1601 you Cookie Compliance fo · #73 TermsFeed AutoTerms: · #580 Asesor de Cookies RG · #1189

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.8Stars · 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.

202per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Occasionally updated
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.

3

releases in the last 12 months

9mo ago

latest release · v1.9.1

27

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.9.1 · 9mo ago1.9.0 · 10mo ago1.8.1 · 11mo ago1.8.0 · 1.3y ago1.7.1 · 1.7y ago1.7.0 · 1.8y ago1.6.0 · 1.9y ago1.5.2 · 2.0y ago1.5.1 · 2.1y ago1.5.0 · 2.1y ago1.4.0 · 2.4y ago1.3.0 · 2.7y ago1.2.2 · 2.8y ago1.2.1 · 2.8y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 80% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.9 80%
v1.8 8.7%
v1.7 7.1%
Older / other versions 3.7%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
10K–20K ≈19K

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

Install history · since 2023-06-19 · 1,164 observations

10KInstalls · 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.

Details

Version
1.9.1
Last updated
9mo ago
Added
2023-06-19 · 3 yrs old
Requires WP
6.0
Tested up to
6.9.7
Requires PHP
8.1

Recent reviews

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  1. DragoWeb
    3mo ago

    It’s a good plugin, but incredibly frustrating, especially if you have to set it up in four languages, with about thirty cookies, and for European countries, like I do. First of all, when you add a new translation language, all the fields are empty. So I don’t really see the point of the AI translation because, if the fields are empty, there’s nothing to translate. It would have been much simpler and faster if the fields were already filled in with English by default. Next comes the part where you have to set up the cookies. I knew this was a manual process, so it took me about an hour to identify each one and assign the correct settings. Finally, the moment came when I gave up: After the languages and the cookies, it’s time to select the countries. Here, you have to choose one country at a time, and for each country, you have to choose the regions to include, as well as the “Default consent states” (7 switches). So, for each country, you have to open the window, search for the country in the dropdown list, select the regions or states (though there is a “select all” button), click OK, then edit the country to activate the switches you want… Honestly, I like to support open source, but really, wasn’t there a way to simplify this whole process? In short, having run out of patience, I uninstalled it and opted for another, less time-consuming plugin. Obviously, this review reflects my experience and is therefore just one opinion. Pressidium Cookie Consent will suit those who want total and meticulous control and are willing to devote time to it. But for me, after two hours of configuration, I didn’t have the energy to continue. Still, it’s a good plugin, and you can tell the developers put a lot of care into creating it. It’s just too time-consuming for me.EDIT: I hadn’t realized you don’t actually have to select regions when adding a country (the prominent “Select all” button kind of led me to believe otherwise). You can just pick the country and add it as-is, which is much better. So in the end, I’m keeping the plugin: I asked Claude Opus to edit the JSON export I had saved and add the 32 EEA countries for me, then re-imported it. Worked like a charm. That said, the UX issues I mentioned still stand IMHO. This topic was modified 1 month, 4 weeks ago by DragoWeb.

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  2. corchen20
    4mo ago

    Adore the UX. Fantastic for pagespeeds too.

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  3. mattdew
    4mo ago

    Works great for lightweight use. If you have a small website and deal with a small amount of cookies like Google Site Kit and/or Jetpack then it is all good. The plugin is not newbie friendly though but it beats the other plugins if you want something truly free and open source. Kudos to Pressidium for the generous gift! Anyway to block the tk_ai cookie that is set by Jetpack block these two scripts with Regex turn ON: woocommerce-analytics wc-admin-analytics

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  4. peteryak
    5mo ago

    I tested the top ten plugins and only this one managed to block analytics cookies for my setup unless the user gives full consent. It also offers consent logs as a free feature. Problem solved – kudos to the developers!

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  5. ambri
    7mo ago

    Great plugin. The detailed documentation is very helpful for setup. Thanks, good job.

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  6. holafreak
    9mo ago

    I was looking for an alternative solution to many other plugins out there and this works great. It’s open source and 100% free which is awesome. On top of that, the developer is very responsive to questions and issues. Thanks for the awesome work.

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  7. neilross80
    10mo ago

    Set up and WP Plugin is straight fwd and well explained. Works well thanks.

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  8. jdevreede
    10mo ago

    Having struggled with free plugins without consent log, and payed pluging which were still very hard to configure. This is now my favourite. Yes I needed help from chat GPT, but now my site is fully GDPR proof.

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 1.9.1 Update “Tested up to” version to WordPress 6.9 to confirm compatibility Update allowed AI models to include Gemini 3 Pro Preview 1.9.1
  2. Version 1.9.0 Introduce a server-side PHP proxy to route traffic to Google tag gateway for advertisers Add meta boxes to the settings page to provide links to relevant resources Move log directory to the uploads directory ( wp-content 1.9.0
  3. Version 1.8.1 Fix an issue with the names of the custom events pushed to the data layer for Google Tag Manager Revert the modal headings to use div instead of h2 to fix potential SEO issues Remove no longer necessary load_plugin_textd 1.8.1
  4. Version 1.8.0 Bump minimum required PHP version to 8.1 Integrate with AI — supports GPT and Gemini to generate translations and cookie descriptions Introduce the Pressidium Cookies Table block for the WordPress Block Editor (also know 1.8.0
  5. Version 1.7.1 Fix an issue where the floating button was being rendered behind other content Fix an issue where the cookies tab was hidden in the Brave browser Fix an issue where closing the settings modal without saving would cause t 1.7.1
  6. Version 1.7.0 Update language codes to be consistent with locale codes used in WordPress 1.7.0

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 9 languages, 3 at 90% or more

Danish 100%
Dutch 100%
Catalan 94%
French (France) 85%
Italian 32%
Russian 24%
German 3%
Spanish (Mexico) 3%
Slovak 1%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-09-13 9K+ → 10K+ up after 47 days in tier
  2. 2025-07-28 8K+ → 9K+ up after 2 days in tier
  3. 2025-07-26 9K+ → 8K+ down after 5 days in tier
  4. 2025-07-21 8K+ → 9K+ up after 46 days in tier
  5. 2025-06-05 7K+ → 8K+ up after 44 days in tier
  6. 2025-04-22 6K+ → 7K+ up after 37 days in tier
  7. 2025-03-16 5K+ → 6K+ up after 32 days in tier
  8. 2025-02-12 4K+ → 5K+ up after 38 days in tier

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