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Cookie consent for the Google Tag Manager plugin
one container, held
The Google Tag Manager plugin adds your container to your pages. Everything you put in the container then runs from it. Cookie Rocks holds the container until the visitor agrees.
Google Tag Manager (plugin)
WordPress plugin
- Tested version
- 1.0.4
- How
- Tested automatically around each Cookie Rocks version
- Last test
- 7 November 2026
- Latest version
- 1.0.4 tested
- Active installs
- 10,000+
What Google Tag Manager plugin adds to your visitors’ browser
Trackers it loads
- Google Tag Manager →Statistics, Marketing1 browser storage key
- Google Analytics / Google Ads (gtag.js) →Statistics, Marketing1 browser storage key
What matters for consent with Google Tag Manager plugin
One script, many tags
The Google Tag Manager container loads every tag you add inside it: analytics, ads, pixels. What it loads decides what needs consent.
Held until the choice
Cookie Rocks holds the container added by this plugin until consent and loads it after Accept all.
Cookie Rocks with Google Tag Manager plugin
- Holds the scripts it adds to your pages, such as tags, pixels or a chat, until the visitor consents. In advanced Consent Mode, Google’s tags load with consent denied instead.
What our tests found on Google Tag Manager plugin
Good to know · Google Tag ManagerCookie Rocks holds the Google Tag Manager plugin's container
The Google Tag Manager container (gtm.js) added by the Google Tag Manager plugin is held by Cookie Rocks until consent and loads after Accept all.
Seen in our tests, 17 October 2026, Google Tag Manager 1.0.4.
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.
- Google Tag Manager (plugin) 1.0.4, tested on 7 November 2026.
- The banner shows, the trackers of the test page wait for consent and load after it, and Cookie Rocks raises no PHP error.
- Its own tags, set with a test ID, do not load before the choice and load after “Accept all”.
- Settings of the test: GTM container ID (test value).
- Last run: Google Tag Manager (plugin) 1.0.4 on 7 November 2026, with WordPress 7.1.3.
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Questions
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 Google Tag Manager plugin users
Your container waits for a yes.
the plugin stays on
Every feature of the complete plugin for 30 days, no card. The Google Tag Manager plugin 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.