Cookie consent and banner plugins
The category’s clearest concentration is cookie consent and banners, within a broader privacy grouping. Related tags overlap with privacy (185 plugins), cookie-consent (152) and cookie-banner (123). Prominent listings reinforce that emphasis: Complianz GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent Banner, Cookie Compliance for WordPress and CookieAdmin are among the most installed plugins in the category.
Adjacent privacy and compliance functions
The related tags indicate that GDPR listings extend beyond consent interfaces into connected privacy and compliance areas.
- Cookies and consent: 89 plugins overlap with the cookies tag and 88 with consent; CCPA overlaps with 86.
- Compliance labels: The category also overlaps with compliance (49 plugins) and DSGVO (48), reflecting related terminology.
- Other listings and tags: Analytics overlaps with 44 plugins. Prominent listings include WP Statistics, OMGF and Local Google Fonts, showing that the category is not limited to plugins named for cookie banners.
What the category’s size and maintenance figures mean
The category is broad, though fewer plugins reach the highest install thresholds. There are 543 plugins in total, 14 with at least 100,000 active installs and 36 with at least 10,000. Complianz GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent Banner and CookieYes each have 1 million active installs, illustrating the scale of leading listings.
A total of 72% were updated in the last year, indicating recent update activity across much of the category. Install counts describe adoption, while update recency describes when a plugin was last updated; the figures measure different things.