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Cookie consent for Astra
a quiet theme, until fonts
Astra sets no cookie on your visitors’ pages and calls no tracker. The one thing to watch is fonts: once you pick a Google font, it loads from Google’s servers on every page. Anything else that needs consent comes from your plugins and your content.
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Astra
WordPress theme
- Tested version
- 4.14.2
- How
- Tested automatically around each Cookie Rocks version
- Last test
- 7 November 2026
What matters for consent with Astra
Nothing of its own to hold
Astra keeps its storage for the Customizer, the editor and the admin. Visitors get no cookie from the theme, so it adds nothing to your banner.
Google Fonts: host them yourself
A Google font chosen in Astra loads from Google’s servers, which sends each visitor’s IP address there. Astra’s “Load Google Fonts Locally” option serves them from your site. It is off by default: switch it on. See Fonts.
Embeds stay as they are
Astra wraps videos and other embeds in a container but keeps them as normal iframes. Whatever a YouTube or Vimeo embed does before the choice, it does with Astra too.
No banner, no consent code
Astra has no consent notice and no consent signal of its own. The visitor’s choice is handled by your consent plugin, not by the theme.
What our tests found on Astra
Good to know · Cookie RocksThe audit names the local fonts setting of your theme
When the home page loads Google Fonts, the Cookie Rocks 2.9.5 audit names the setting of the active theme or plugin that serves them from the site: Elementor, WP Rocket, Spectra, Kadence Blocks, OMGF, Local Google Fonts, Astra, Kadence, OceanWP or Neve. Otherwise it suggests a plugin such as OMGF. Divi, Bricks, Oxygen and Beaver Builder have no such setting. With Cookie Rocks Pro, it points to « Serve Google Fonts from this site » instead.
Read in its code, 1 November 2026, Cookie Rocks.
Depends on a setting · AstraAstra loads Google Fonts from Google once a Google font is chosen
setting “Load Google Fonts Locally” · by default: off
No Google font loads by default. Once one is chosen, Astra adds a Google stylesheet on every page. Load Google Fonts Locally serves them from the site and is off by default.
Read in its code, 16 October 2026, Astra 4.14.1.
Full detail
Astra's body font defaults to inherit, so no Google font loads until one is chosen. Once a Google font is chosen, Astra enqueues a stylesheet from fonts.googleapis.com on every page and, since 4.12.6, preconnects to fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com. Load Google Fonts Locally (self_hosted_gfonts) serves them from the site and is off by default.
Good to know · AstraThe free Astra theme sets no cookie on visitor pages
Its storage is used only in the admin and editors. It has no banner and no consent signals, and keeps embeds as normal frames, with no lazy loading of its own.
Read in its code, 16 October 2026, Astra 4.14.1.
Full detail
The free Astra theme reads and writes no cookie or browser storage on visitor pages; its storage keys and the astraPricingVisited cookie are used only in the Customizer, block editor or admin. It has no banner, no WP Consent API and no gtag('consent') call; vendor usage tracking is opt-in and server-side from the admin. Astra keeps embeds as normal iframes with src, only wrapped in ast-oembed-container (classic content), with no lazy loading of its own. A dark palette adds astra-dark-mode-enable to <html> and <body>.
How we test it
Around each version, with its latest release
Around each Cookie Rocks version, a fresh WordPress installs its latest version from WordPress.org next to Cookie Rocks and runs the same checks. A new version joins the next run on its own.
- Astra 4.14.2, tested on 7 November 2026.
Page builders and themes
Other plugins of the same kind.
Questions
Does Astra need its own category in my banner?
No. The theme sets no cookie on visitor pages. Your banner only has to cover the trackers and embeds your plugins and pages add.
What happens after the 30-day trial?
The banner, your visitors’ choices and your proofs of consent keep working. Without a key, most settings lock, updates and support stop. Take a key at any time and everything opens again.
For Astra sites
Keep Astra, add consent.
the theme stays quiet
Every feature of the complete plugin for 30 days, no card. Astra keeps working as it does today.
- During the trial: everything, including the full settings and the scans
- After 30 days without a key: the banner, your visitors’ choices and your proofs of consent keep working
- What waits for a key: most settings, updates and support
Get your trial key
Your e-mail and your site. Your key arrives as soon as you confirm your e-mail.