Installation of the Consent Studio CMP for Google Consent Mode v2 on WordPress
After completing the following steps, you will have Consent Studio CMP consent banner installed on your WordPress website with Google Consent Mode enabled.
Here are the steps to undertake.
1. Make sure that you have an account with Consent Studio
Log in at https://consent.studio. If you do not yet have an account, you can create one below.
2. Download the (in development) WordPress plugin
Press the button below...
...or
Visit our Github repository: https://github.com/vallonic/consent-studio-wordpress-plugin/tree/stable.
Download the contents of the stable branch by clicking Code and Download ZIP.
This version of the WordPress plugin will not yet be connected to the WordPress Plugins Directory for automatic updates.
3. Upload and activate the WordPress plugin (.zip)
Upload the contents of the .zip folder to your WordPress plugins and activate the plugin.
That's it! You have installed Consent Studio on your website. You are free to adjust the settings to your preference and needs.
4. How to find the Consent Studio settings panel?
The settings for the Consent Studio WordPress plugin can be found in the WordPress admin under Settings.
The manage_options permission is required in order for a user to be able to access the Consent Studio settings panel.
Tab: "General"
The General tab is the landing page of the Consent Studio WordPress plugin settings panel. Here you will also find shortcuts towards accessing the Consent Studio dashboard and some noteworthy facts about our product.
About "Debug Mode"
By default, Consent Studio will be verbal in the browser console log about its behavior, decisions and observations. This is called the debug mode. By default, this is enabled, but using the dedicated toggle in the General tab, you can disable it.
Tab: "Google Consent Mode"
This is a tab that is dedicated to Google Consent Mode.
In this area, you are able to modify any setting that is also available in our Google Tag Manager tag template, including, but not limited to:
The default Consent Mode signal settings
Different regional default consent mode signals
Other consent mode settings, such as URL Passthrough and more.
When you use our WordPress plugin, you are no longer required to install Consent Studio in Google Tag Manager.
Tab: "GTM Integration"
You can let Consent Studio load your Google Tag Manager container onto your website. However, we highly recommend using Google Site Kit, an official WordPress plugin built by Google, to load Google Tag Manager onto your website.
5. Make sure that your tracking respects consent signals
Below are useful resources to help you achieve this.
Discover the custom events for Google Tag Manager, which can be used for tag triggering in GTM
Discover the JS browser events, which can be used for custom JS
Learn how to block inline scripts based on a visitor's consent state
Learn how to enable or disable external sources based on a visitor's consent state
Are you using Google tags? Using Advanced Consent Mode, Google tags will respect your consent signals out of the box — even on the All Pages trigger.
6. Monitor your implementation
Now that you have finalised your implementation, we recommend keeping an eye on what your Consent Studio dashboard (we have a health check page that becomes available to you when issues are detected by our scanner).
Also, please keep an eye on whether our cookie scanner actually finds cookies on your website. If your website does use cookies, but our scanner does not find any, it may because of any of these causes:
You do not have the correct domain registered with Consent Studio;
You have another CMP installed on the domain;
No scan has ran just yet (please wait up to 15 minutes after registration for your initial scan to start)