Yes. Turn on Hide for administrators<\/strong> on the plugin's Settings page. Logged-in administrators then do not get the banner, which keeps front-end page builders such as Bricks or Elementor working after cookies were rejected. Visitors still see the banner. Developers can widen or narrow the rule (for example to editors who use the builder) with the kukie_hide_banner_for_user<\/code> filter.<\/p><\/dd>\nDoes Kukie.io suit agencies with many sites?<\/h3><\/dt>\nYes. You can manage many sites with team roles (Owner, Admin, Editor). The free plan covers up to 5 sites, Pro 20, Agency 100 and Unlimited has no limit.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\n
1.10.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added: Google's banner text on the Google Consent Mode v2 tab. While Consent Mode is on, the tab lists what Google's EU user consent policy asks a banner to say, with a button that applies Google's text to every language of your banner and turns on Accept all, Reject all and Manage preferences, the same as the banner editor on Kukie.io. Once it is applied, the tab tells you when a language or a region no longer has all of it. Needs the Kukie.io service update of October 2026.<\/li>\n
- Changed: the tab now describes the default consent state the banner sends since October 2026. Google tags start with consent denied, regions whose rules allow cookies until a choice get a granted default, and no consent update is sent while the banner is on screen until the visitor chooses. It links to the debug mode guide and to Google's own guide.<\/li>\n
- Unchanged, now documented: the WP Consent API integration reports the consent type opt-in in every region, so plugins that read it wait for the visitor's choice.<\/li>\n
- Changed: corrected the banner script size in this listing (under 40KB gzipped).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.9.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added: Uptime monitoring page. On plans that include it, turn monitoring on, choose the page to check and the check interval, and switch the owner's alert emails and the monthly report on or off. The page shows whether the site is up, uptime for the last 24 hours, 7 days and 30 days, the average response time, the SSL certificate's expiry date, recent incidents, and the checker's addresses to allow in a firewall or security plugin. On other plans it shows what the feature does and which plan includes it. Needs the Kukie.io service update of 1 October 2026.<\/li>\n
- Added: an Uptime monitoring card on the dashboard.<\/li>\n
- Added: a Preferences modal tab on the Consent banner page. Set the modal's width, whether its three buttons sit on one row or stacked, their order, the background overlay, the policy links and the icon or logo next to its title, with a preview. The modal's texts and button colours stay on Kukie.io. Needs the Kukie.io service update of 1 October 2026.<\/li>\n
- Added: a running cookie scan now shows its progress on the dashboard (\"Scanning page 12 of 40\") instead of figures up to five minutes old.<\/li>\n
- Added: Mexican and Argentinian Spanish sites (WPML, Polylang or the WordPress language) now get the matching banner translation, and both can be chosen as the banner language.<\/li>\n
- Changed: every admin page was reworded: sentence-case labels, plainer descriptions, and error messages that say what to do next. Settings pages use \"Save changes\".<\/li>\n
- Changed: errors stay on the page as a notice instead of disappearing after a few seconds. Disconnecting and the \"changed elsewhere\" warning now open an accessible dialog instead of the browser's confirmation box.<\/li>\n
- Changed: dates, numbers and times follow your WordPress language.<\/li>\n
- Changed: the dashboard's consent counts are labelled \"Last 7 days\" and \"Last 30 days\", which is what they always counted.<\/li>\n
- Fixed: keyboard focus on buttons, checkbox chips and layout options showed a blue fill with white text and no outline. Focus is now a clear outline again.<\/li>\n
- Fixed: better contrast for status badges, the success message, switches in the off position and input placeholders. The admin bar indicator now says whether the banner is on or off, not only by its colour.<\/li>\n
- Improved: saving settings needs one request to Kukie.io instead of two. The dashboard stops refreshing while its browser tab is hidden.<\/li>\n
- Changed: corrected this listing: the banner script size (under 35KB gzipped), Google Consent Mode v2 (it signals once switched on), the blocking description, the plan details, the typo in the title, and claims that read as legal promises.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.8.2<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added: \"Hide for administrators\" on the Settings page. When on, the banner is not loaded for logged-in administrators, so front-end page builders such as Bricks or Elementor keep working after cookies were rejected. Visitors still see the banner. Off by default. Developers can widen or narrow the rule with the kukie_hide_banner_for_user filter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.8.1<\/h4>\n\n\n- Translations: the admin interface added in 1.8.0 is now fully translated into German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian and Turkish (Bulgarian was already complete).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.8.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added: Consent banner page tabs Behaviour (show branding, auto-block scripts, Do Not Track, Global Privacy Control, reload on consent, background overlay, disabled pages), iFrame blocking (toggle plus the blocked services list) and Language (banner language override, auto-translate, default and enabled languages - moved here from Settings), plus a Regions tab pointing to the region rules editor on Kukie.io.<\/li>\n
- Fixed: the dashboard's Consents Today and this week\/month counts now include today's live consents instead of waiting for the nightly aggregation (requires the Kukie.io service update of 2 September 2026).<\/li>\n
- Fixed: the Settings page's Connection card follows plan and organisation changes made on Kukie.io instead of showing the values from the day you connected.<\/li>\n
- Fixed: a save from one page can no longer reset a field owned by another (for example the language list from the Settings page).<\/li>\n
- Added: Accessibility widget page. Switch on the Kukie accessibility widget for this site and configure its position, colour, button size, mobile visibility, modules, languages and accessibility-statement link from WordPress. Settings are read from and saved to your Kukie.io account, so the plugin and the dashboard never disagree. On plans without the widget the page explains what it does and which plan includes it.<\/li>\n
- Changed: the admin menu is now Dashboard, Consent banner, Accessibility widget and Settings. Banner Design, Google Consent Mode v2 and Microsoft UET moved into tabs of the single Consent banner page; old bookmarks to the previous pages redirect to the matching tab.<\/li>\n
- Changed: the dashboard shows the accessibility widget state alongside the banner, consent and verification cards.<\/li>\n
- Improved: refreshed admin styling - WordPress-native notices and tabs, 40px form controls matching WordPress 7.1, proper labels and descriptions on every field for screen readers, consistent save buttons.<\/li>\n
- Improved: the Dashboard's status badges and the Settings page's verification and disconnect messages are now translatable.<\/li>\n
- Fixed: hidden admin pages no longer trigger PHP 8.1+ deprecation notices, and the WP Rocket notice no longer prints an inline script.<\/li>\n
- Compatibility: tested with WordPress 7.1 (always-iframed post editor, jQuery UI 1.14 - the plugin uses neither).<\/li>\n
- Changed: updated the banner script size in this listing (under 30KB gzipped).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.7.3<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added: two new revisit-button icon options, Lock and Sliders, matching the Kukie.io dashboard. Icons chosen there are no longer reset to Cookie when saving the Banner Design page.<\/li>\n
- Improved: the Shield revisit-button icon was redrawn as a crisper solid shield with a check mark.<\/li>\n
- Changed: updated the banner script size in this listing to around 26KB gzipped.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.7.2<\/h4>\n\n\n- Fixed: disconnecting your site while another tab was still talking to Kukie.io (saving settings, loading a settings page or refreshing the dashboard) no longer silently undoes the disconnect. The site now stays disconnected and the banner stays off.<\/li>\n
- Fixed: the safety re-read that runs before those settings writes now genuinely reads the database on standard WordPress installs instead of a stale in-memory copy.<\/li>\n
- Fixed: corrected the Unlimited plan price (89 EUR\/mo), removed a scheduled-scan cadence (bi-weekly) that does not exist, updated the banner script size to around 25KB gzipped, and clarified that banner translations (70+ languages) come from the Kukie.io service while the plugin's own admin interface ships in 11 languages.<\/li>\n
- Changed: updated the German regulation name from TTDSG to TDDDG throughout the listing.<\/li>\n
- Improved: removed unused admin styles and cleaned up six incorrect auto-matched translation suggestions from the bundled language files (those strings show in English until proper translations arrive).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.7.1<\/h4>\n\n\n- Fixed: entering an incorrect API key when reconnecting no longer switches off the cookie banner. The banner now always keeps working while only the dashboard connection (stats, scans, settings sync) is affected by API key problems.<\/li>\n
- Fixed: settings pages are no longer saveable after a failed load, so a blind save can no longer disable the banner or clear your enabled languages.<\/li>\n
- Fixed: reconnecting keeps your Script Position choice, and failed saves no longer change local settings.<\/li>\n
- Fixed: WPML\/Polylang language detection now reports Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) sites to the banner as pt-br instead of collapsing them to generic Portuguese.<\/li>\n
- Fixed: real error messages from Kukie.io are shown instead of a generic \"API error.\" message, and a rare stored-key encoding issue is healed automatically.<\/li>\n
- Improved: cleaner uninstall (including multisite), translatable 1.7.0 admin strings, and various small admin polish fixes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.7.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Changed: Minimum required WordPress version raised from 6.0 to 6.7.<\/li>\n
- Fixed: Stored API key encryption no longer uses a delimiter that a random encryption value could collide with; keys are migrated to the new format automatically and existing keys keep working.<\/li>\n
- Fixed: After a security-keys (salts) rotation or a database copy from another site, the plugin now detects that the stored API key can no longer be read and shows a clear reconnect notice instead of a broken \"connected\" dashboard. The cookie banner itself keeps working.<\/li>\n
- Fixed: Settings saves now use optimistic locking - if the same settings were changed in the Kukie.io dashboard after the plugin page was loaded, you are warned and can choose whether to overwrite instead of silently losing the other changes.<\/li>\n
- Fixed: An invalid revisit-button background colour no longer rejects the whole banner design save; it now falls back to the default like the icon colour does.<\/li>\n
- Fixed: The scan button now shows the actual reason a scan could not start (already running, queue full, or rate limit) instead of always reporting \"a scan is already running\".<\/li>\n
- Fixed: The banner enabled\/disabled indicator in the admin bar no longer flips when a settings save fails.<\/li>\n
- Fixed: Site verification no longer times out on the plugin side while the server is still checking slow sites.<\/li>\n
- Fix: existing installs now always load the current CDN banner script; stale stored embed URLs are self-corrected on upgrade.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.6.2<\/h4>\n\n\n- Fix: Manual embed code snippet on the settings page showed an invalid script URL (built from the dashboard URL instead of the CDN bundle URL), which could 404 if pasted. The snippet now uses the correct CDN bundle URL. Sites using the recommended automatic \/ injection were not affected.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.6.1<\/h4>\n\n\n- Fix: Removed regulatory framing from GCM and UET admin descriptions per Google CMP Partner Program guidance. Consent Mode is now correctly described as a technical mechanism for communicating consent to Google\/Microsoft services rather than as a regulatory compliance solution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.6.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added: Full WPML compatibility - banner now follows WPML active language automatically<\/li>\n
- Added: Full Polylang compatibility - banner follows Polylang language on pages without WPML<\/li>\n
- Added: \"Banner language\" setting for manual override (Auto-detect by default)<\/li>\n
- Added:
kukie_script_lang<\/code> filter for programmatic language override<\/li>\n- Added:
wpml-config.xml<\/code> for WPML Go Global program compliance<\/li>\n- Changed: Script tag now includes
data-lang<\/code> attribute when language detection succeeds<\/li>\n- Tested: WPML 4.6+, Polylang 3.4+<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.5.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added: WP Rocket \"Load JavaScript deferred\" exclusion is now applied automatically via rocket_exclude_defer_js filter, no manual configuration required<\/li>\n
- Improved: WP Rocket compatibility notice now checks runtime exclusion state instead of saved DB option, eliminating false positives when our own filters already handle exclusions<\/li>\n
- Result: Default WP Rocket configurations now work with Kukie out of the box across all four optimization paths (Minify, Combine, Defer, Delay) with zero manual setup<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.4.1<\/h4>\n\n\n- Fixed: Banner continues to display after API key is regenerated or deleted<\/li>\n
- Added: Admin notice when API key is invalid with link to generate a new key<\/li>\n
- Added: Banner injection automatically disabled when API key becomes invalid<\/li>\n
- Added: Auto-recovery when a new valid API key is entered<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.4.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added translations for 11 languages: Bulgarian, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Dutch, Polish, Romanian, Turkish, Japanese<\/li>\n
- Improved internationalization coverage for all plugin strings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.3.4<\/h4>\n\n\n- Fixed WP Consent API bridge: enqueue after WP Consent API script (PHP_INT_MAX - 50 priority)<\/li>\n
- Removed redundant window.wp_consent_type inline script (WP Consent API reads consent type via wp_localize_script)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.3.3<\/h4>\n\n\n- Fixed WP Consent API integration not loading because kukie-cookie-consent loads before wp-consent-api alphabetically<\/li>\n
- Deferred init to plugins_loaded hook so wp_set_consent() is available<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.3.2<\/h4>\n\n\n- Fixed WP Consent API bridge not loading due to script registration timing (priority 10 -> 20)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.3.1<\/h4>\n\n\n- Fixed wp_has_consent() always returning true because window.wp_consent_type was undefined in JavaScript<\/li>\n
- Now sets window.wp_consent_type = 'optin' before WP Consent API script loads<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
1.3.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added WP Consent API integration - auto-syncs Kukie consent categories to WP Consent API when the plugin is installed<\/li>\n
- Registers Kukie as the active consent management plugin<\/li>\n
- Category mapping: necessary\/functional to functional\/preferences, analytics to statistics\/statistics-anonymous, marketing to marketing<\/li>\n
- No configuration needed - activates automatically when WP Consent API plugin is detected<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n