Why does your scanner say that I have more than 50 pages on my WordPress website?

The Cookiebot scanner scans your website in-depth to identify all cookies and other tracking technology in use. Since blog posts can also contain cookies and trackers - for example in images or in embedded videos - we need to scan not only the static pages but also all the blog posts. For this reason, the number of pages according to Wordpress and the number of pages according to the Cookiebot scanner will likely differ.

 

You can read more about Wordpress' definition of a page vs. a post here: http://www.wpbeginner.com/glossary/page/

 

Images

Some users mistakenly think that the Cookiebot scanner counts their image files as subpages, thereby increasing the number of subpages and resulting in the domain not being eligible for the free subscription. Cookiebot does not count image files as subpages. Depending on your theme, WordPress may automatically create real pages for content placed in your media library. These pages are called Attachment pages. Because these pages can also contain cookies and online trackers, Cookiebot scans and includes them in your page count.

To disable the Attachment page feature in WordPress, please see the following guides:

https://themeskills.com/disable-media-attachment-pages-wordpress/
https://www.wpexplorer.com/disable-image-page/

 

If you have received a price quote from Cookiebot: attached to the email is a URL list of up to 5,000 of the subpages found by our scanner.

If you have received an email saying your account has been upgraded from a free subscription to a 1-month free trial: attached to the email is a URL list of up to 200 of the subpages found by our scanner.

If you have signed up for a Cookiebot subscription you can also find details and an URL list with up to 10,000 of the subpages that our scanner has found on the 'Cookies' page: Log into your account (Cookiebot CMP Manager); choose the top menu point ‘Cookies’. When you click on the number of pages identified by the scanner, the URL list of subpages will download.

 

 

If you have cleaned up your website to reduce the number of subpages to maximum of 50 pages, you can order a non-binding quote here to make sure (including the subscription price, the number of subpages and an attached URL list of all identified pages):

If your website now has 50 subpages or less, you can follow the instructions in How do I change my Trial account back to a Free subscription?

 

 

Please also see: How does the Cookiebot scanner define pages on a website?