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Updated
September 4, 2024

Follow our step-by-step guide to translate the GDPR Cookie Consent banner on your multilingual website.

Cookie Consent in English
Cookie Consent in English
Cookie Consent in Spanish
Cookie Consent in Spanish

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Getting Started

To get started, install and activate the following plugins:

Before translating your GDPR Cookie Consent, we recommend you first translate your WordPress website. Once done, you can follow this guide to translate your consent.  

By default, the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin includes built-in translations for many popular languages. For languages it doesn’t yet include translations for, you can translate texts manually. 

1. Add Languages

To begin, add the languages you want to translate your consent into: 

  1. Go to Cookie ConsentLanguages
  2. Click the Add Language button and select a language. 

The consent banner is the popup that asks for permission to collect data. As previously mentioned, it will appear translated when you add a language with built-in translations. 

If the language you added doesn’t include translations, or you want to edit the existing ones, go to Cookie ConsentLanguages and click Edit Content for the language you want to update. Make your necessary changes and save.   

Editing translations in Spanish
Editing translations in Spanish

While editing translations, remember to add the URL of your translated privacy policy page. 

The cookie preferences popup is the banner that appears after a user selects to customize which cookies to enable. Similarly to the consent banner, the preferences popup will appear translated when you add languages with built-in translations. 

To translate the cookies and categories: 

  1. Go to Cookie Consent Manage cookies.
  2. Open the Edit content in dropdown and select the language you want to edit. 
  3. Click the pencil icon next to the text you want to make changes to and add your translations. 
Editing cookie preferences translations in Spanish
Editing cookie preferences translations in Spanish

To translate the other texts in your popup, like title, description, and buttons, go to the Languages tab and click Edit Content on the language you want to edit. You can find your popup texts under the Preference Center section.

Translate Your Website with WPML

Translating your GDPR cookie consent brings you one step closer in building a multilingual website. To translate the remainder of your website, you can use WPML, the most popular multilingual plugin for WordPress. 

To get started with WPML, visit our pricing page to choose a plan. To learn how WPML can translate your website, see our WordPress translation guide