Easily connect the CookieHub consent management platform with the WordPress Consent API to simplify compliance with the growing list of evolving global privacy regulations. Ensure consistent handling across WordPress plugins and services while enhancing user trust – all with minimal setup.
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Here’s how you can integrate CookieHub with WordPress Consent API:
Download the CookieHub WordPress plugin and follow the easy instructions in our installation documentation. Make sure your CookieHub plugin is updated to the latest version for full WP Consent API compatibility and connect to the WP Consent API. Assign consent types, verify, and publish.
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The WordPress Consent API was introduced to standardize how WordPress plugins handle user consent, ensuring a consistent, privacy-first approach across the entire ecosystem.
WordPress site owners face increasing pressure to handle user consent correctly. The WP Consent API provides a unified, developer-friendly way to share consent signals between themes, plugins, and consent management tools — such as CookieHub — eliminating conflicting consent logic and improving compliance.
CookieHub’s integration with the WP Consent API bridges the gap between technical implementation and legal compliance, enabling site owners to meet privacy requirements while preserving valuable site functionality.
Better consent, simpler compliance
Before the WordPress Consent API, each plugin managed consent independently, often leading to inconsistent or redundant cookie notices, poor UX, and regulatory risks. By integrating CookieHub CMP with the WP Consent API, you gain:
Centralized consent management across all plugins.
Accurate, standardized consent signaling for every data-handling component.
Automatic propagation of consent states — once a user gives or denies consent, all connected plugins are updated instantly.
This approach ensures compliance while maintaining optimal site performance and user experience.
Standardize consent across WordPress with CookieHub
CookieHub’s integration with the WP Consent API plugin standardizes consent communication across your WP site. With CookieHub and WP Consent API working together, you can:
Effortlessly manage and synchronize cookie consent preferences across plugins
Accurately log and document user consent for regulatory audits and compliance
Provide a consistent, seamless user experience with unified consent banners
Enable or disable plugin behavior dynamically based on user preference
The WordPress Consent API helps websites comply with global privacy laws by allowing plugins and services to check and respect user consent preferences before performing tracking or data collection.
CookieHub’s integration makes this process seamless:
Simple integration:
Use the CookieHub plugin to connect to the WordPress Consent API automatically.
No coding required:
Activate in minutes.
Future-proof compliance:
Stay on top of changing privacy regulations with automatic updates and support from CookieHub.
Works across plugins:
Whether you use WooCommerce, analytics tools, or ad plugins — all will respect the same consent preferences.
Integrating the CookieHub CMP with the WP Consent API ensures that user consent preferences are consistently respected across your WordPress site and its ecosystem of plugins and services. This simplifies compliance with privacy regulations like GDPR, CCPA, and the ePrivacy Directive.
Instantly integrate CookieHub's consent management with the WP Consent API through our dedicated integration plugin. From cookie scanning to consent collection and recordkeeping, CookieHub automates compliance and consent management from end to end at any scale – from single sites to multisite WordPress deployments.
Adhere to global privacy regulations like GDPR, CCPA, and others without having to monitor legal changes, develop regulatory expertise yourself or make manual updates.
By ensuring all WordPress plugins and third-party tools honor the same consent signals, the user experience is smoother, and you can build user trust, boost conversions and engagement, and improve brand credibility with transparent and standardized consent handling.
Digging into WordPress Consent API can help businesses understand the importance of making compliance and consent management easier. Here are some of the most frequently asked questions.
The WordPress Consent API is a framework that standardizes how WordPress plugins and themes handle user consent. It allows plugins to check and respect user choices, ensuring consistent behavior across the entire WordPress ecosystem. Introduced in WordPress 6.4, the Consent API simplifies compliance with global data protection laws by providing a single source of truth for consent states.
The API allows consent management platforms like CookieHub to register and store consent preferences (e.g., analytics, marketing, functional cookies). When a plugin attempts to set cookies or track data, it queries the Consent API to determine whether consent has been given. If not, it must wait or adjust its behavior accordingly. This ensures that user preferences are respected at every level — no matter how many plugins your site uses.
CookieHub simplifies and automates the entire consent process — from collecting user preferences to communicating them to all plugins. Instead of manually configuring each plugin or relying on inconsistent scripts, CookieHub ensures accurate, compliant, and automatically updated consent signals across your site.
While not mandatory, the WordPress Consent API is quickly becoming a best practice for GDPR and global compliance. Many modern plugins now support it by default to ensure consistent privacy behavior.
The WordPress Consent API currently supports common categories such as: necessary – essential cookies required for basic site functionality functional – cookies that improve usability or store preferences statistics / analytics – cookies used for measuring performance marketing – cookies used for advertising and remarketing CookieHub automatically maps your consent categories to these standardized types.
Yes, but integration with a CMP is highly recommended. Without a CMP, you would have to manage consent collection, updates, and logs manually. CookieHub automates these processes and ensures your site remains compliant as regulations evolve.
You can verify activation through the CookieHub dashboard or by using the Consent Scanner to ensure all plugins respond correctly to consent signals.
The API helps facilitate compliance with major global data privacy laws, including: GDPR (EU) ePrivacy Directive (EU) CCPA / CPRA (California) LGPD (Brazil) PIPEDA (Canada) While the API itself doesn’t make a site compliant, it forms a key part of a compliant consent management framework when paired with CookieHub CMP.
Not necessarily. CookieHub’s integration with the WP Consent API requires no coding — setup can be done through the WordPress dashboard in just a few minutes.
Yes. CookieHub’s WP Consent API integration works across WordPress multisite networks, allowing centralized management and consistent consent across all subsites.
An increasing number of popular plugins (like WooCommerce, Jetpack, Yoast SEO, and analytics tools) support the WP Consent API. CookieHub automatically detects compatible plugins and adjusts consent communication accordingly.
Yes. CookieHub securely logs all user consent events to support your compliance obligations and regulatory audits.
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