92
Cookies and Content Security Policy
Smooth cookie consent that keeps jQuery on speed dial.
HealthyGrowing
92/100
Users love the easy setup and responsive support. The jQuery dependency is a drawback.
Active installs
~17,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.9★
67 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+65%
Growing fast
82 → 136 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +65% in the last year
82/day a year ago→136/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayCookies and Content Security Policy is widely praised for its easy setup, responsive support, and flexible customization, but at least one user reports a breaking bug after the 2.13 update and a reliance on jQuery.
What people like
- +Easy to set up and configure×7
- +Responsive and helpful support×3
- +Custom domain configuration is straightforward
- +No account required to block Google Maps and Analytics cookies
- +Colors, texts and translations can be customized, including WPML support
- +Pre-configured cookie categories for statistics, experience and marketing simplify setup
- +Lightweight implementation
- +Works reliably and effectively out of the box×3
Common complaints
- −Plugin depends on jQuery; it fails when jQuery is disabled
- −Update to version 2.13 introduced a bug where the consent banner appears only on some pages, breaking site layout (since 2.13)
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.92★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 9%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 67 total
Latest reviews · 67 analyzed
- 2026-03-10★★★★★Excellent, lightweight and GDPR compliant!Tobias Sörensson
- 2025-11-27★★★★★Great Plugin! Love it!iracohen1203
- 2025-11-04★★★★★Simple to configure and super responsive supportboxhamster
- 2025-06-05★★★★★Awesome!innovationWebDesign
- 2025-05-19★★★★★Really solid pluginManolis
- 2025-04-16★★★★★Great supportjoaofigfoto
- 2025-03-25★★★★★The best Cookies Pluginsemplicewebsite
- 2024-12-03★★★★★Great cookie plugin, simple to usedavinian
- 2024-10-10★★★★★That's great,it would be even better if it could run without JQkrjojo
- 2024-08-31★★★★★Simple lightweight pluginambri
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Cookies and Content Security Policy
Top Security plugins, ranked by score.For developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
161
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
131
Prior 7-day baseline
164
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
2,444
Mean release-day peak (30d)
172
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+22.9%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
11%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.11
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
96%
5★ share in analyzed sample
9%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.87 → 4.92★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered