Show Me The Cookies
by Jay Versluis · Privacy & Consent
Also makes 4 other plugins · 10.4K+ installs across the portfolio →
Shows a list of all current cookies on your site, both for admins and visitors (optional).
Try it live opens a temporary test site in your browser, which can take about 20 seconds to load. Plugins that rely on outside services or a full server may not work completely there.
Health
B 80/100
Few reviews · Open vulnerability
Active installs
400+
≈470 estimated
Momentum
+6%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Add “shows” to your wp.org tags. You rank #23 for it without listing it, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 4 listed it's a slot worth spending.
80 health vs 69 average across 915 Privacy & Consent plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →5.7%
of downloads still active
At least 400 of 7K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Privacy & Consent plugin keeps 2.1%, across 502 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Privacy & Consent plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
This plugin shipped 2 releases in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.
Details
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.
Excellent listing optimization
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 128 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.0.8, the current branch or newer
4.8★ over 4 reviews, smoothed to 4.15★ and held back under 25 reviews
4 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
42
Momentum
Mixed: one swing, the rest drifting
+0.1
Velocity
places per keyword, 28d
27%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 28d
-0.4
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| cookies your tag | #7 | #19 | up 1 |
| show | #14 | #18 | up 2 |
| no cookies | #7 | #19 | 0 |
| shows | #23 | #23 | up 1 |
| cookies gdpr | #15 | #22 | 0 |
| show more | #21 | #21 | 0 |
| cookie your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| gdpr your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| privacy your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
18 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 6 listed. 12 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 3 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Add “shows” to your wp.org tags. You rank #23 for it without listing it, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 4 listed it's a slot worth spending.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,490 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 490 · peaks are release surges
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
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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.
Release cadence
Occasionally updatedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
2
releases in the last 12 months
4mo ago
latest release · v1.2 · 27 Jun 2026
3
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 5% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “400+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 3 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 72% of the way through.
Install history since 21 Sep 2020
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ apventura3.8y ago
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!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Martin Sauter5.3y ago
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.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Gerrardfisher6.3y ago
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!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ TLCJohn7.6y ago
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
Read on wp.org ↗
Security history
via Wordfence Intelligence1 open vulnerability affects the current version (1.2). 0 of 1 disclosed are patched.
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.
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
2 of 8 pass · checked 27 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Shows a list of all current cookies on your site, both for admins and visitors (optional)."
- ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
- ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ! Enough to quote 658 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ✓ Tags match the text 2 of 4 tags appear in the text; "GDPR", "privacy" do not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-07-23 500+ → 400+ down after 23 days in tier
- 2026-06-30 600+ → 500+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-06-29 700+ → 600+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-06-28 1K+ → 700+ down after 956 days in tier
- 2023-11-15 900+ → 1K+ up after 172 days in tier
- 2023-05-27 800+ → 900+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2023-05-26 900+ → 800+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2023-05-24 800+ → 900+ up after 1 days in tier
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).
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Asesor de Cookies RGPD para normativa europea 20K+ installs · 3.9★ · 3 shared tags B -
Pressidium Cookie Consent 10K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags B -
WF Cookie Consent 10K+ installs · 4.6★ · 3 shared tags A -
LegalBlink for Aruba 10K+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags -
Flexible Cookies 4K+ installs · 4.2★ · 3 shared tags B
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