Terms & Conditions Consent Log
WordPress stores consent as a yes. Nothing about when, from where, or which version of your terms was on screen. The day somebody disputes it, that yes is worth very little.
Terms & Conditions Consent Log fills the gap on any acceptance checkbox of your site: WooCommerce checkout (classic and blocks), Contact Form 7, WPForms, Gravity Forms, Fluent Forms, comments, login and registration, or a stand-alone shortcode or block.
Every accepted consent writes a row to a dedicated indexed table with the timestamp, the IP, the user agent, the document version in force and the exact text shown, sealed with a SHA-256 hash so any later change is detectable. Exactly what Article 7.1 of the GDPR requires you to be able to demonstrate.
Filter, search, export to CSV, integrate with the native WordPress Privacy Tools and open a printable A4 certificate for any record, one click to save it as PDF.
Works with or without WooCommerce
The admin menu lives under Users → Consent log on every install, with or without WooCommerce. The WooCommerce-specific bits (checkout capture for both the classic and the block checkout, order metabox, “Consent” column on the orders list, optional consent line in the order emails) load only when WooCommerce is active; everything else (Records, Settings, CSV export, PDF certificate, Privacy Tools integration) works the same way on any WordPress site.
Sources of consent
- WooCommerce classic checkout (auto when WC is active): captures the native terms checkbox. Stored as
terms_and_privacy. - WooCommerce block checkout (auto when WC is active): captures purchases made through the block checkout, which is what WooCommerce builds for new stores since version 8.3 and which the classic hooks never see. Stores the exact wording of the Terms and Conditions block. Recorded as
terms_and_privacywhen that block requires a checkbox, or asterms_noticewhen it only shows the informational paragraph WooCommerce ships by default, so acceptance by conduct is never logged as explicit consent. An opt-in toggle adds a required checkbox of the plugin’s own, validated server-side, for evidence that does not depend on browser-side validation. On by default. - Contact Form 7 (auto): detects [acceptance] fields automatically and the first email field of the form. Stored as
cf7_form_{ID}, one type per form. No snippets required. On by default; turn off in Settings if it does not apply. - WPForms (auto): detects GDPR Agreement fields automatically and the first email field of the form. Stored as
wpforms_form_{ID}, one type per form. Works with WPForms Lite and Pro. No snippets required. On by default; turn off in Settings if it does not apply. - Gravity Forms (auto): detects Consent fields automatically and the first email field of the form. Stored as
gravityforms_form_{ID}, one type per form. No snippets required. On by default; turn off in Settings if it does not apply. - Fluent Forms (auto): detects GDPR Agreement and Terms & Conditions fields automatically and the first email field of the form. Stored as
fluentforms_form_{ID}, one type per form. Works with Fluent Forms Lite and Pro. No snippets required. On by default; turn off in Settings if it does not apply. - WordPress comments (auto): logs the native
wp-comment-cookies-consentcheckbox (introduced in WP 4.9.6) when the visitor opts in. Stored ascomment_consent. On by default; turn off in Settings if your site uses Disqus, Jetpack or another third-party comments system. Note that this native checkbox is a cookie preference, not consent to store the commenter’s data. - Privacy consent on comments and WooCommerce reviews (opt-in): adds a required privacy checkbox to the comment form, blocks the submission server-side if it is left unticked, and stores the acceptance as
comment_privacy. This is the Article 7.1 consent to processing the name and email a commenter hands over, as opposed to the cookie preference above. WooCommerce product reviews share the comment form, so they are covered by the same option. Off by default. - Membership, course and custom sign-up forms (opt-in): captures accounts created outside the standard WordPress and WooCommerce forms, such as those from MemberPress, LearnDash, Ultimate Member or Paid Memberships Pro, and multisite sign-ups. Stored as
user_register. Accounts created from the admin Users screen are never recorded. Off by default. - WordPress login and registration (auto): captures successful logins and registrations through wp-login.php when a consent checkbox is ticked on the form. Stored as
wp_loginandwp_register. Registration is on by default; login is off by default (a normal login form has no consent checkbox, so login only matters for re-consent flows). The “Remember me” checkbox is excluded by design (ePrivacy / cookie preference, not GDPR consent). - WooCommerce login and registration (auto when WC is active): same idea for the My Account page. Stored as
wc_loginandwc_register. Registration is on by default; login is off by default, like the WordPress rows above. An opt-in toggle can inject the consent checkbox into the WC register form, since WooCommerce does not ship one natively. [tccl_consent_box]shortcode and Gutenberg block: drop a self-contained consent checkbox in any page, post or widget area as a stand-alone block. Submission posts to a REST endpoint and writes a record. Always available.
For anything else (Elementor Forms, Forminator, custom flows), call tccl_save_consent() from the appropriate hook.
Why a dedicated table
Storing thousands of consent records in wp_postmeta is wasteful and slow. The plugin uses its own indexed table and exposes a public function (tccl_save_consent) that you can call from anywhere to log additional consents in the same place.
Main features
- Records timestamp UTC, IP, user agent, document version, source URL and full consent text per acceptance.
- Custom database table with the right indexes (no
wp_postmetabloat). - Tamper-evident: each record is sealed with a SHA-256 hash. Any later change to the stored text is detected and reported as TAMPERED in the records list.
- Printable A4 certificate per record, with a built-in “Print / Save as PDF” button — the browser exports the certificate to PDF natively, no external library bundled.
- Native Privacy Tools integration:
Tools > Export Personal DataandTools > Erase Personal Databoth include consent records (erasure anonymises rather than deletes — the record itself is the lawful basis to keep it). - WooCommerce checkout texts are optional — leave them empty and the WooCommerce native text is shown to the customer and stored verbatim.
- Automatic version bump when the text changes (suggests
MAJOR.MINOR-YYYY-MM-DD). - Optional opt-out of IP and/or user agent tracking.
- Configurable retention with a one-click anonymise button (records kept; PII scrubbed).
- Configurable access by role: grant the consent log to extra roles (for example a DPO) from Settings → Access, without making them administrators.
- One record per ticked box: a form with a required privacy checkbox and an optional marketing one produces two separate records, so the optional consent is evidenced on its own instead of being swallowed by the required one.
- Per-form consent wording: the WordPress login, WordPress registration, WooCommerce login and WooCommerce registration forms can each store their own text, falling back to a site-wide default.
- Live partial-match filters (email, order, date range, type, full-text search inside the accepted text) + filtered CSV export with UTF-8 BOM (opens cleanly in Excel).
- (When WooCommerce is active) Order metabox with the consent summary, integrity badge and outdated-version indicator. “Consent” column on the orders list (legacy and HPOS) with a quick visual status. Optional consent line in the New order email (admin) and the order confirmation email (customer) — both off by default.
- Optional
delete_data_on_uninstallsetting (off by default) — uninstalling does not destroy consent evidence unless you explicitly opt in. - HPOS (custom order tables) compatible.
- Public
tccl_save_consent()function to log consents from anywhere.
Translation ready
All strings use the terms-conditions-consent-log text domain. Translations are managed through translate.wordpress.org.
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