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Real Cookie Banner review

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A self-hosted WordPress plugin for consent management, with service scanning and paid plans per website.

7.3/10Editor score
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Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026

Real Cookie Banner is a self-hosted WordPress plugin for managing visitor consent to cookies and personal-data processing. It is aimed at site owners who want consent controls and records kept on their WordPress server, rather than a separate hosted deployment. Banner design options and presets support customization, while service and content-blocker templates help configure what visitors encounter. The plugin also includes a developer API with WordPress actions, filters, and a REST API, making it relevant to teams that need to extend or connect consent behavior within a WordPress environment.

Its scanner crawls sitemap-listed pages and checks site markup and installed WordPress plugins for services. That distinction matters: the vendor says the scanner detects services rather than cookies and may not find every service or cookie. Real Cookie Banner also blocks scripts, iframes, links, and other content until consent, stores and documents visitor consents in the WordPress database, generates a cookie policy from banner information, and provides consent statistics. Integrations include WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress, Weglot, Google Tag Manager, and Matomo Tag Manager. Those capabilities make it a closer fit for WordPress sites with translation or tag-management needs than for teams looking for a platform-independent cookie inventory.

A free plan is available. Paid plans are priced per website per year: Single is €59, Starter €89, Professional €129, Business €229, and Agency €299; each lists all features, updates, and premium support. The published plans do not distinguish those tiers by feature set, so buyers should compare their intended plan and site count before committing. The listed support channel is ticket-based. Real Cookie Banner suits solo operators and small or mid-market teams committed to WordPress who need server-side consent storage and blocking. Sites needing cookie-level scanning or a deployment beyond self-hosted WordPress should consider a different approach.

Real Cookie Banner pros and cons

  • Where it wins
    • Blocks scripts, iframes, links, and other content until consent.
    • Stores and documents visitor consents in the WordPress database.
    • Offers banner customization, policy generation, and consent statistics.
  • Where it doesn't
    • The scanner checks for services, not individual cookies.
    • The scanner may not find every service on a site.
    • Its self-hosted WordPress scope limits platform fit.

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