ONiDEA Consenso Cookie Conforme Italia

ONiDEA Consenso Cookie Conforme Italia is a free, self-hosted alternative to subscription services like CookieYes or Cookiebot, covering the essential cookie consent features for WordPress sites:

• Consent banner with “Accept all” / “Reject all” buttons of equal visual prominence (as required by the Italian Data Protection Authority’s — Garante Privacy — guidelines) plus a “Customize” option.

• Preferences panel with categories: Necessary (always on), Statistics, Marketing, Functional — enabled individually per site.

• Automatic blocking of scripts marked as non-essential until the user gives consent.

• Google Consent Mode v2: sets consent signals for Google Analytics 4 / Google Ads / AdSense before their scripts load, so they automatically honor the user’s choice (only needs enabling where relevant).

• Meta (Facebook) Pixel built in: enter the pixel ID in Settings and it is printed as a blocked script, loaded only after the visitor accepts the chosen category (PageView, plus optional WooCommerce events; production environment only; never for administrators).

• Server-side consent log (date, chosen categories, page, hashed IP — never stored in the clear) for the accountability record required by the GDPR, with CSV export.

• Italian by default, with a one-click English preset for the banner texts (Settings page) for sites that also serve an English-speaking audience.

• Engine built on the open-source “CookieConsent” library by Orest Bida (MIT license), served from your own site: no third-party calls, no subscription fee.

What it does NOT do (unlike paid services)

• No automatic recurring scan of the site’s cookies: categories and the scripts to block are configured manually (see the quick-start guide, in Italian).

• Not an IAB TCF-certified CMP: suited to Google Ads and GA4 (via Consent Mode, which has no CMP-certification requirement) and to the general run of editorial/business/e-commerce sites. For Google AdSense specifically, note that since 16 January 2024 Google requires a certified CMP integrated with the IAB TCF to serve personalized ads in the EEA/UK — without one, AdSense falls back to non-personalized/limited ads there (lower revenue, not no ads). This plugin does not meet that certification, so AdSense sites in the EEA/UK should weigh that trade-off, or pair it with a certified CMP for the ad-consent piece specifically. Not suited either way to publishers selling inventory through multiple ad exchanges/SSPs that require full IAB certification.

• Does not provide legal privacy/cookie policy text: that remains your responsibility or your legal counsel’s.

Included features

Every feature of the plugin — banner, categories, script blocking, Google Consent Mode v2, proof-of-consent log with CSV export, and the Dashboard with consent reporting/trends (accepted/rejected/partial breakdown, last-7-days chart) — is included and active for anyone who installs the plugin, with no distinctions. The “Powered by ONiDEA adv” credit at the bottom of the banner is disabled by default and can be turned on by anyone from Settings.

Any future premium extensions (if and when they arrive) will be a separate, independently distributed add-on — never functionality hidden inside this same package.

Credits and licenses

com/orestbida/cookieconsent), released under the MIT license — fully compatible with this plugin’s GPLv2+ license. js is the library’s own build file, unmodified. css, so the ~41% belonging only to the preferences panel can be loaded on demand instead of on every page (see enqueue_assets() ); no rule was changed in the process.

The original MIT license text is available at the repository above.

Plugin developed and maintained by ONiDEA adv, a web agency based in Milan, Italy.