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Cookie consent for Kadence and Kadence Blocks
background videos wait too
The Kadence theme and Kadence Blocks load Google Fonts once you choose one, and a row with a YouTube background video writes a YouTube player straight into the page. Cookie Rocks holds that background video until the visitor agrees. Fonts are best hosted on your own site.
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Kadence
WordPress theme
- Tested version
- 1.5.2
- How
- Tested automatically around each Cookie Rocks version
- Last test
- 7 November 2026
What matters for consent with Kadence
Background videos are held
A Kadence Blocks row with a YouTube background video puts the YouTube player in the page itself. Cookie Rocks holds it: nothing reaches YouTube before the choice. After the visitor accepts, the video starts without a reload, from YouTube’s privacy-enhanced address.
Video popups wait for the click
The Video Popup block creates its player only on click, and uses YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode and Vimeo’s do-not-track option by default.
Google Fonts: host them yourself
Both the theme and Kadence Blocks load a chosen Google font from Google’s servers. Their “Load Google Fonts Locally” option is off by default: switch it on. See Fonts.
Small cookies of its own
The evergreen countdown keeps each visitor’s deadline in a first-party cookie from the first page. The shop’s grid or list switch sets one only after a click. Neither the theme nor Kadence Blocks sends a consent signal.
What our tests found on Kadence
Good to knowYouTube and Vimeo background videos wait for consent
- Held without a box: the section shows its fallback image or colour.
- After consent: muted, looped, no reload.
- A video hosted on the site (MP4, WebM) plays for everyone.
Read in its code, 4 November 2026.
Full detail
A YouTube or Vimeo background video of a section or container (Elementor, Kadence, Beaver Builder) is held without any box until consent: the section shows the builder's fallback image, or its background colour. After consent it starts muted and looped, without a reload; visitors who refuse never see it. A background video hosted on the site (MP4 or WebM) is never held and plays for everyone, so it is the better choice for a hero section, with a fallback image set in any case.
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.
Good to know · Kadence BlocksCookie Rocks holds a Kadence Blocks YouTube background video
Before the choice nothing reaches YouTube. After Accept all, without a reload, the video loads from youtube-nocookie.com.
Seen in our tests, 16 October 2026, Kadence Blocks 3.8.0.
Full detail
Tested: a Kadence Blocks row with a YouTube background video is held by Cookie Rocks. Before the choice the iframe carries data-cr-src and nothing reaches YouTube; after Accept all, without reload, its src becomes youtube-nocookie.com/embed.
Set before the choice · Kadence BlocksKadence Blocks background videos are written as YouTube or Vimeo frames
- Row background video: autoplay frame from www.youtube.com (not youtube-nocookie) or player.vimeo.com.
- Video Popup: frame created on click, from youtube-nocookie.com or Vimeo with do not track.
- Video Popup: Plyr keeps a plyr key in localStorage.
- Google Maps block: a lazy-loaded frame or maps.googleapis.com.
Read in its code, 16 October 2026, Kadence Blocks 3.8.0.
Full detail
A Kadence Blocks row with a YouTube or Vimeo background video writes an autoplay iframe with src www.youtube.com/embed (not youtube-nocookie) or player.vimeo.com in the HTML. The Video Popup block writes no iframe: GLightbox and Plyr create it on click, using youtube-nocookie.com and Vimeo dnt by default (attribute youtubeCookies), and Plyr keeps a localStorage key plyr. The Google Maps block uses a native loading=lazy iframe or maps.googleapis.com; no iframe src is moved to data-src.
Good to know · KadenceKadence sets first-party cookies for countdowns and the shop layout
- Evergreen countdown: <site name slug>-<campaign id>, 30 days, from the first page.
- Shop grid or list toggle: <site name slug>-shopLayout, 30 days, only after a click.
- No WP Consent API or Google consent code in the theme or Kadence Blocks.
Read in its code, 16 October 2026, Kadence theme 1.5.2, Kadence Blocks 3.8.0.
Full detail
Kadence Blocks' evergreen countdown sets a first-party cookie named <site name slug>-<campaign id> for 30 days on the first page to keep each visitor's deadline. The theme's grid or list toggle sets <site name slug>-shopLayout for 30 days only after a click. Neither the theme nor Kadence Blocks has WP Consent API or gtag('consent') code. Form captchas (reCAPTCHA, Turnstile, hCaptcha) are required to submit.
Depends on a setting · KadenceKadence loads Google Fonts directly unless local fonts are turned on
setting “Load Google Fonts Locally” · by default: off
The theme's Load Google Fonts Locally setting is off by default. Kadence Blocks follows it, and without the theme has its own local setting, also off by default.
Read in its code, 16 October 2026, Kadence theme 1.5.2, Kadence Blocks 3.8.0.
Full detail
The Kadence theme loads fonts.googleapis.com (with a preconnect to fonts.gstatic.com) as soon as a Google font is chosen; Load Google Fonts Locally (Customizer > General > Performance) is off by default. Kadence Blocks prints its Google Fonts as direct link tags in wp_head (priority 85) and wp_footer without a style handle, follows the theme's setting, and without the theme has its own local setting, also off by default.
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.
- Kadence 1.5.2, tested on 7 November 2026.
Page builders and themes
Other plugins of the same kind.
Questions
What about the Google Maps block?
It loads a map from Google Maps, with a native lazy-loaded iframe or Google’s map script. Like any map from Google, it is part of what the visitor’s choice should cover.
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 Kadence sites
Your rows keep their videos, after the choice.
background videos wait too
Every feature of the complete plugin for 30 days, no card. Kadence 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.