Cookie Notice Bar Plugin

A Cookie Notice Bar is a small banner typically displayed at the top or bottom of your website to inform visitors that the site uses cookies to enhance user experience, track analytics, or provide personalized services. It sometimes includes a brief explanation of the types of cookies used, a link to the site’s privacy policy or cookie policy, and options for the user to accept, manage, or decline the cookies.

This bar ensures compliance with privacy regulations, such as GDPR, by obtaining user consent for cookie usage before data collection begins.

What We Like About It

The style options available in the plugin settings allow you to customize the typography and colors of all the elements and even control details like borders, drop shadows, opacities, and more. With all these options, you can create a cookie notice consistent with your website’s style.

We use Lightweight Cookie Notice by DAEXT for all our websites because it’s simple, extremely lightweight, doesn’t bloat websites, has plenty of customization options, and is free forever unless you need the pro version that offers extras for different customer interactions.

It works out of the box with any theme and offers readers the option to accept, reject, and close.

The free version is sufficient for most websites; however, if you need different configurations, the pro version may be needed.

Installing and activating

1. Visit the Plugins -> Add New menu
2. Click on the Upload Plugin button and select the zip file you just downloaded
3. Click on Install Now
4. Click on Activate Plugin

Cookie Notice Settings

As said, this plugin can be styled to blend into your website using the same typography and colors.

Here, you can see the General settings:

Here, you can see the Cookie Notice settings:

Here, you can see the Cookie settings:

Here, you can see the Revisit Consent settings:

Here, you can see the Geolocation settings:

Here, you can see the Capabilities settings:

Here, you can see the Advanced settings:

Cookie Notice Styling

While all these settings appear overwhelming, they aren’t. If you have a simple blog, we suggest changing the colors, typography, and, if needed, the consent message. The whole process takes no more than five minutes.

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