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Add a GDPR Cookie Consent Banner with AI

Put a compliant consent banner up without the script-blocking that breaks builder forms.

Difficulty Beginner
Time ~10 min
Tools run_wp_cli

Prerequisites

A connected site and a published privacy policy page to link.

The prompt
Add a GDPR cookie consent banner to my site using a free, reputable plugin, and set it up so it does not break my page builder forms.

Install and activate the banner, then configure it in classic banner mode: show the notice, do not auto-block my scripts. Use this text: [your cookie message]. Buttons: [Accept] and [Decline]. Position it at the [bottom] of the page and link "Learn more" to my privacy policy page at [/privacy-policy/].

After setup, show me the banner rendered on the front end, then open one of my [Elementor or builder] pages that has a form and confirm the form still submits. If anything about the form breaks, stop and tell me before changing anything else. Do not turn on automatic script-blocking unless I ask for it, since that is what usually breaks builder forms.

Already connected to WPVibe?

Skip the copy-paste. Just ask your AI for the “Add a GDPR Cookie Consent Banner with AI” recipe, or describe the task, and WPVibe runs these steps on your own site.

If you get visitors from the EU or UK, you are meant to ask before dropping tracking cookies, and “meant to” turns into a real fine risk the moment you run ads or analytics. The trap is that plenty of consent plugins fix the legal checkbox by quietly breaking your site. The most common failure is a banner that blocks the scripts your Elementor or other builder forms depend on, so the notice goes up and your contact form silently stops submitting.

Ask your AI assistant and WPVibe installs a free, well-established consent plugin and sets up a classic banner that sits in your footer with a clear accept and decline choice. It runs in banner mode, which shows the notice without auto-blocking your page scripts, so your builder forms and checkout keep working exactly as they did. It writes the wording, buttons, and position for you and then shows you the banner on the live page.

Paste the prompt, set your banner text and button labels, and give it the privacy-policy page to link. The one thing worth doing yourself: preview the banner on a page that has one of your forms and submit that form once to confirm nothing broke. If you later need automatic cookie-blocking for strict consent, holding analytics until a visitor agrees, that is a bigger project with real tradeoffs, so ask about it on its own rather than flipping it on blind.

Outcome

A GDPR cookie consent banner runs in your site footer with accept and decline options, configured in banner mode so your builder forms keep working.