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A plain consent bar with accept, reject and a choice of categories. Scripts marked for a category stay inert until the visitor allows it, Google Consent Mode is updated for tags that use it, and the choice is remembered in a first-party cookie. Nothing is logged and nothing is sent anywhere.

The Pantry Consent settings screen in the WordPress admin, at Plugin Pantry > Consent.

What it does

  • A bar at the bottom of the page with headline, text, a link to the privacy page, and three buttons: accept all, reject non-essential, save choices
  • Categories necessary, analytics, marketing and preferences, each switchable on the settings screen
  • Scripts marked with type text/plain and a data-pantry-consent category attribute run only once that category is allowed
  • Dispatches a pantry-consent event with the allowed categories on every page load and on every change, for other plugins and tags
  • Updates Google Consent Mode v2 when gtag is present
  • Remembers the choice for six months in a first-party cookie and offers a Cookie settings link via shortcode, block or footer option to change it
  • Keyboard accessible, inline CSS with colour settings, no external requests

What it does not do

  • No consent log or proof of consent
  • No region or country detection
  • No automatic cookie or script scanner
  • No blocking of scripts that are not marked for a category
  • No multi-language texts beyond the ones you enter

Measured footprint

Zip size
27 KB
Lines of PHP
1,618
Options
pantry_consent_settings, pantry_consent_version
Post meta
none
Custom tables
none
Post types
none
Cron events
none
Transients
none
Admin assets
includes/core/assets/pantry-admin.css on the settings screen only, includes/core/assets/pantry-admin.js on the settings screen only, src/block/editor.js in the block editor only
Front-end assets
assets/consent.js on every front-end page: it reads the cookie, runs the scripts the visitor allowed and dispatches the event, 1,884 bytes of CSS printed inline with the bar, only on pages that print the bar
External requests
none
Cookies
pantry_consent, first party, 180 days, SameSite=Lax, Secure over https, written only when the visitor chooses
Measured on
2026-09-12

Compatibility

WordPress
6.4 or newer, tested to 7.1
PHP
8.1 or newer
Where it lives
Plugin Pantry > Consent
Licence
GPLv2 or later

Documentation

Read the documentation

Every setting on the Pantry Consent screen and what each one does, with the hooks it publishes: the same text that ships in the plugin README.

Pro add-on (planned)

See Pantry Pro pricing
  • Consent log for audits with export
  • Per-script and per-plugin blocking rules without editing markup
  • Region-based defaults

None of this is in the free plugin, and none of it is switched off inside it. Pro would be a separate plugin.

Changelog

All notable changes to Pantry Consent are recorded here. The format follows Keep a Changelog, and the project uses Semantic Versioning.

1.0.0 - 2026-09-12

Added
  • A consent bar at the bottom of the page with a headline, a message, a privacy link and three buttons: accept all, reject non-essential and save choices.
  • Categories necessary, analytics, marketing and preferences, each offered or not from the settings screen, with wording you set.
  • Scripts marked type="text/plain" and data-pantry-consent="<category>" are held until that category is allowed, then run once.
  • A pantry-consent event on document on every page load and every change, carrying the allowed categories and the Google Consent Mode map.
  • gtag( 'consent', 'update', ... ) for Consent Mode v2 when a tag has put gtag on the page.
  • The choice kept for 180 days in one first-party cookie, stamped with a consent version that goes up when the categories change.
  • A Cookie settings link that brings the bar back, as the shortcode [pantry_consent_settings], the Cookie settings link block, or a footer link.
  • Colour settings and about a kilobyte of CSS printed with the bar. No stylesheet to load, no external request, nothing logged.
  • Filters pantry_consent_categories, pantry_consent_show_bar and pantry_consent_config.