Installing Cookiebot CMP on WordPress

1. Create and setup your Cookiebot account

Create your own Cookiebot account by visiting our signup page.

When you have created a Cookiebot CMP account you can start with the actual set-up and implementation.

1. Add your domain(s)

   1. Select "Domains & Aliases" from the menu on the left-hand side.
   2. Click the "+ Add domain" button to open a small dialog.
   3. Enter your web-adresse, omitting the http:// or https:// part (the www. is optional). 
      
   4. Click the "Add domain" button.

   

   A scan of the website will start immediately after adding it and should complete within 24 hours.
   The scan report with the results will be delivered to you via email.
   You can find an overview of all cookies detected during the scan under the "Cookies & Reports" section.
   
   

2. Set up your banner configuration

   Decide what you banner should look like and what it should say. Check out our guides on how to style your banner, edit the content and set languages and add geo-locations. 

2. Connect your domain group

To find your CBID (Domain Group serial) these simple steps:

1. Ensure you have selected the Domain Group your website is part of.
   If you only have a single Domain Group, you can disregard this step.
2. Select "Script Embeds".
3. In the text field containing the Cookiebot CMP script tag you should see the "data-cbid" attribute with a value similar to this 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 (the 0's will be hexadecimal values).
   Select and copy this value, you will need this later.

1. Open the Cookiebot CMP plugin in your WordPress environment.
2. Select "Settings" from the left-hand menu.
3. Select the "General settings" tab and paste the Domain Group ID in the field labelled "Add your Domain Group ID"
4. Save your settings by clicking the "Save Changes button

3. Connecting your Google Tag Manager account ^(optional)

To greatly simplify implementation, and to ensure that scripts load in the correct order, and using the correct settings, you can now add Google Tag Manager with Consent mode enabled using the Cookiebot WordPress plugin.

First things first:

• • • Ensure that you have version 4.2.0 of the Cookiebot WordPress plugin or higher
    • Ensure you've already created a Google Tag Manager account, and have a container ID
    • Figure out if you need to rename GTM's dataLayer. 
    • Avoid implementing Cookiebot multiple times, by ensuring that you don't load Cookiebot using the Cookiebot CMP tag in Google Tag Manager.
      If you're unsure:
      
      • click the Tag's menu item in GTM
      • Check if Cookiebot CMP is listed
      • If it is, ensure that there is nothing under Firing Triggers.
      • Pause or remove the tag, or remove its trigger to ensure it won't load.
      • Remember to publish your changes if you made any.

1. Open the Cookiebot CMP plugin in your WordPress environment
2. Open "Settings" → "Google tag manager"
3. Enable the GTM toggle
4. Add your Google Tag Manager ID or container ID, formatted as "GTM-XXXXXX".
   See Google's own documentation on How to find the GTM ID?
5. Add the Data Layer Name (optional). If you haven't renamed your GTM data layer, you can probably just use the default "dataLayer". See Google's own documentation on How to find the Data Layer Name?

4. Google Consent Mode

About Google Consent Mode

Google Consent mode allows you to adjust how your Google tags behave, based on the consent status of your users. You can indicate that consent hasn't been granted yet for analytics and ads cookies prior consent. Google's tags will dynamically adapt, only utilizing cookies after consent has been given by the user.

You can read more about Google Consent mode in Google's support article.

Currently the following Google products have Built-In Consent Checks:

Implementing Google Consent Mode

Google Consent mode is automatically enabled in the settings of your Cookiebot CMP WordPress.
If you would like to disable/enable this:

1. Open the Cookiebot CMP plugin in your WordPress environment
2. Open "Settings" > "Google Consent Mode"
3. Disable/enable the toggle
4. Save your settings

You can now safely use the All pages trigger for the tags mentioned above, without needing to add Cookiebot triggers or conditions to prevent cookies from being set prior consent.

TCF2.0 enabled:

If you've enabled both GTM and the IAB framework using the Cookiebot CMP WordPress plugin (Under "Settings" → "IAB"), the following line of code will be added above the Google Tag Manager snippet on all pages:

window ['gtag_enable_tcf_support'] = true;

This will enable TCF support in Google Tag Manager, further ensuring that your visitors' consent preferences are honored.

5. Multiple banner setup ^(optional)

If you wish to display different banners, with different configurations for visitors from specific countries or regions, you need to start by configuring your domain groups in your Cookiebot CMP account. An additional domain group is needed for each alternative banner configuration. These additional domain groups will serve as alternative configurations in terms of banner template, behavior, functionality, styling and content.

In your Cookiebot CMP account:

1. Create a new domain group by selecting "Domains & Aliases in the left-hand menu.
2. Click "Manage your domain groups"
   
3. Click the "+ Create Group" button to add a new domain group
   
   
   Do not add any domains to this new domain group.
4. When you have added the new domain group, configure the banner in the "Configuration" section.