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Cookie consent for Spectra
forms and maps wait too
Spectra adds blocks to the WordPress editor. Its form block can add reCAPTCHA with a script, and its map block loads Google Maps without an iframe. Cookie Rocks holds both until the visitor agrees.
By Brainstorm Force · wpspectra.com · WordPress.org
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Spectra Legacy
WordPress plugin
- Tested version
- 2.20.6
- How
- Tested automatically around each Cookie Rocks version
- Last test
- 7 November 2026
- Latest version
- 2.20.6 tested
- Active installs
- 1,000,000+
What Spectra adds to your visitors’ browser
No trackers In our test of Spectra Legacy 2.20.6 on 7 November 2026, the plugin itself added no tracker and no cookie. What you place in your pages with it, such as a video or a map, still counts.
What matters for consent with Spectra
reCAPTCHA in the Form block
With reCAPTCHA on, Spectra’s script adds Google’s reCAPTCHA as the page loads. Cookie Rocks holds that script, shows the request inside the form, and starts reCAPTCHA after consent without a reload.
The Google Maps block
Spectra writes the map as an embed, not an iframe. Cookie Rocks turns it into an ordinary held iframe with its message, so nothing from Google Maps loads before the choice.
Google Fonts: host them yourself
Block fonts load from Google unless “Load Google Fonts Locally” is on. It is off by default: switch it on. See Fonts.
Small cookies of its own
The evergreen countdown sets a first-party cookie on the first view, a closed notice remembers it was closed, and popups remember their state in the browser. Spectra sends no consent signal.
What our tests found on Spectra
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 · SpectraSpectra blocks set cookies and storage, and load Google Fonts by default
setting “Load Google Fonts Locally (uag_load_gfonts_locally)” · by default: off
- Evergreen Countdown sets a first-party cookie on the first view, for 30 days by default.
- A dismissible Inline Notice sets uagb-notice-<id> when closed.
- Popup Builder keeps spectraPopup<ID> in local storage.
- Block fonts load from Google unless Load Google Fonts Locally is on (off by default).
Read in its code, 16 October 2026, Spectra 2.20.5.
Full detail
Spectra's evergreen Countdown block sets a first-party cookie named after the site slug and the timer, on the first view, for 30 days by default. A dismissible Inline Notice sets uagb-notice-<id> when closed, and the Popup Builder keeps spectraPopup<ID> in localStorage. Block fonts load from Google unless Load Google Fonts Locally is on; it is off by default. Spectra has no WP Consent API support.
Set before the choice · SpectraCookie Rocks 2.5.0 holds reCAPTCHA in Spectra forms until consent
Spectra's script creates the reCAPTCHA tag, so it is not in the HTML; with 2.4.0 it loaded before any choice. 2.5.0 shows the request in the form and starts it after consent without a reload.
Seen in our tests, 16 October 2026, Spectra 2.20.5.
Full detail
With reCAPTCHA enabled in Spectra's Form block, Spectra's script creates the www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js tag in the head on page load, so it is not in the HTML. In our test with Cookie Rocks 2.4.0, api.js, its gstatic file and the anchor frame loaded before any choice. Cookie Rocks 2.5.0 holds Spectra's script as reCAPTCHA when a form enables it, shows the request inside the form, and starts reCAPTCHA after consent without a reload.
Set before the choice · SpectraCookie Rocks 2.5.0 holds Spectra's Google Maps block until consent
The block uses an embed element, not an iframe, so with 2.4.0 Google Maps loaded before any choice. 2.5.0 turns it into an ordinary iframe, held with its message.
Seen in our tests, 16 October 2026, Spectra 2.20.5.
Full detail
Spectra's Google Maps block writes an <embed src="https://maps.google.com/maps?...&output=embed"> element, not an iframe. In our test with Cookie Rocks 2.4.0, maps.google.com, maps.gstatic.com and maps.googleapis.com loaded before any choice. Cookie Rocks 2.5.0 turns an embed whose address matches a known embedded content into an ordinary iframe, held with its message.
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.
- Spectra Legacy 2.20.6, 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.
- Settings of the test: Default settings after activation.
- Last run: Spectra Legacy 2.20.6 on 7 November 2026, with WordPress 7.1.3.
Page builders and themes
Other plugins of the same kind.
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 Spectra sites
Your blocks stay, Google waits.
forms and maps wait too
Every feature of the complete plugin for 30 days, no card. Spectra 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
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