Changelog

TidyConsent (free plugin)

Version 0.4.1

• Settings screen rebuilt: a Getting started list, switches and buttons instead of tick boxes and drop-downs, and a save bar that says when there are unsaved changes.
• Logo can be chosen from the Media Library; the cookie policy draft is created with one press; ready-made CSS tweaks.
• Leaving the settings screen with unsaved changes now asks first.
• Run scan works without entering a service address.
• Consent log: the date filter and page links carry a nonce.
• Optional card to get a consent checklist by email. Nothing is sent unless you ask.

Version 0.4.0

• Blocking is now safe behind page caches and CDNs: every visitor receives the same page with known trackers off, and allowed tools are switched on in the browser.
• Blocks the standard pasted install snippets for Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel, and Google Ads, plus their no-JavaScript fallbacks.
• Adds Google Ads, Microsoft Clarity, Hotjar, LinkedIn Insight Tag, TikTok Pixel, Pinterest Tag, X (Twitter) Pixel, and Microsoft Advertising, each with plain-English cookie descriptions for the generated policy.
• The settings screen now lists the tools found on your site and what visitors must allow for each.
• The banner links to your cookie policy page once it is published.
• Removed the Geo mode setting, which did nothing.
• New Appearance settings with a live preview: position, colours (including automatic light/dark and match-my-theme), brand button colour, corners, and font. Category choices are now switches. The banner has a refreshed, more modern look.
• New Behaviour settings: entrance animation, delay, categories open from the start, optional close button (counts as Reject all), page-waits-for-a-choice for the centred layout, consent duration, and reopen button corner and style.
• New Wording settings: editable category names and descriptions, policy link text and address, logo, and four ready-made tones.
• One-click look presets. A custom CSS box with the styleable class names and variables listed.
• Settings are organised into four tabs beside a live preview that follows text, colours, and CSS as you type.
• For developers: TidyConsent.hasConsent('analytics') and a tidyconsent:change event.
• The default look is now a card in the bottom-left corner in a clean system font.
• A "Getting started" list at the top of the settings screen shows what is done and what is left, and folds away when you are set up.
• After a visitor rejects: a short note that says how to change the choice later (on by default); an option to ask people who rejected again after 30, 60, or 90 days; and an optional confirm step before a rejection is saved (off by default, with a warning about where it is not acceptable).
• Tracker matching is by web address host, so a site's own files are no longer mistaken for trackers.
• The banner offers only the categories the site uses and names the detected tools. Applying an Agent Scan proposal now changes what the banner asks.
• Withdrawing a category removes that category's known cookies and reloads the page.
• A choice now expires about six months after it was made, wherever it is stored; the visitor is then asked again.
• Accept and Reject are styled identically. The consent cookie is marked Secure on HTTPS sites.
• Consent logging keeps working on cached pages; the public log endpoint validates input and limits requests per address.
• New setting to delete the consent log on uninstall. Uninstall cleans every site of a multisite network.

Version 0.3.0

• Added the optional Agent Scan panel: an administrator can connect a scan service, review a plain-English report and proposed configuration, and apply the proposal only with a separate click.
• Added tracker evidence and category review before any scan proposal is applied.

Version 0.2.0

• Added local tracker detection recording.
• Added the plain-English cookie policy generator and the settings action that creates or updates a draft policy page.
• Added the read-only consent log viewer with date filtering and CSV export.

Version 0.1.0

• Initial internal development release.
• Added the consent banner with Accept, Reject, and category Preferences.
• Added Google Consent Mode v2 defaults and updates.
• Added blocking for known external analytics and marketing scripts before consent.
• Added local consent storage and the WordPress database consent log.

TidyConsent Pro (paid add-on)

Next release

• Consent Insights (Settings → Consent Insights): accept all, reject all and custom choices by day for the last 30 or 90 days, with a CSV download. Counted from the consent log the free plugin already keeps; nothing new is recorded about visitors.
• Update notices: WordPress now shows new Pro versions and installs them the normal way, for sites with an active license.

Version 0.2.0

• The consent-log backup keeps going, batch after batch, until it is caught up.
• Release any site's seat on the license, for example an old address.
• Open the billing page to update the card or cancel.
• The hosted TidyConsent service is used by default, so there is no address to enter.

Version 0.1.0

• First release: license activation, weekly re-scan with a plain-English change email, and hosted consent-log backup.