Description
A cookie banner plugin is not the same thing as a working cookie banner. Caching plugins, theme updates, and marketing plugins can all quietly break what your CMP (Complianz, Real Cookie Banner, CookieYes, or any other) is supposed to be blocking — without changing how the banner looks.
Bannerproof scans this site the way a real visitor (or a data protection regulator) would: a clean, unauthenticated browser session, watching exactly which trackers fire and which cookies get set before any consent choice is made.
This plugin is admin-only — it adds nothing to your site’s public-facing pages, no scripts, no stylesheets, no runtime overhead for your visitors. It’s a thin client to the Bannerproof scanning service at bannerproof.app; the scan itself runs on Bannerproof’s own servers.
Free, no account needed:
- One-off check of this site, right from your WordPress admin
- Clear yes/no: were any trackers found firing before consent?
Connect a Bannerproof account (from \$11/month) for:
- Automatic weekly re-scans
- 3-month scan history
- An always-current compliance certificate
- Email summary after every scan
Get an account and your API token at bannerproof.app.
External services
This plugin connects to the Bannerproof API (bannerproof.app) to scan this site for trackers and cookies that fire before cookie consent is given, and to show the status of a connected monitoring account. This is the plugin’s entire purpose — a thin client to the Bannerproof scanning service, which runs the scan itself on Bannerproof’s own servers.
Requests are only made when you take an explicit action on the plugin’s own «Bannerproof» admin page (never on your site’s public-facing pages, and never in the background):
- Clicking «Scan this site for free» sends this site’s own domain to start a one-off scan, and the plugin then polls for that scan’s result.
- Clicking «Save & Validate» to connect an account sends your Bannerproof API token, to verify it and retrieve your account’s plan and domain list.
- Opening the connected «Bannerproof» admin page re-sends your stored API token to refresh your account and domain status if the locally cached copy is stale.
No data from your site’s content, visitors, or users is ever sent — only the domain being scanned and, if you’ve connected an account, your own API token.
This service is provided by Bannerproof: Terms of Service, Privacy Policy.
Installation
- Upload the plugin files to the
/wp-content/plugins/bannerproofdirectory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
- Go to the new «Bannerproof» menu item in your admin sidebar.
- Click «Scan this site for free» for an immediate, no-account check.
- If you’d like ongoing automatic monitoring, create an account at bannerproof.app, generate an API token under Settings, and paste it into the plugin.
FAQ
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Does this slow down my site?
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No. The plugin only runs inside wp-admin and never loads any code on your site’s public pages.
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Does the free check require an account?
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No — the free, one-off scan works immediately with no signup.
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What does it cost to connect an account?
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Monitoring a single site starts at €11/month. See current pricing at bannerproof.app.
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Where is my API token stored?
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In this site’s WordPress options table, the same place most plugins that connect to an external service store their credentials.
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Contributors & Developers
“Bannerproof – GDPR Cookie Consent Scanner” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.0.5
- Documented the Bannerproof API as an external service, per WordPress.org plugin review feedback.
1.0.4
- Plugin URI now points to the dedicated /wordpress page instead of duplicating Author URI.
1.0.3
- Tested up to: 7.1. Shortened the readme short description to fit WordPress.org’s limit.
1.0.2
- Update Tested up to to 7.0.
1.0.1
- Added the Bannerproof logo to the admin page header.
1.0.0
- Initial release.