--- title: "Setup guides" description: "Getting started guides for initial setup" url: "https://cookiebeam.com/guides/category/setup" lang: "en" --- # Setup Getting started guides for initial setup - [WordPress Cookie Consent Without a Plugin: Lightweight GDPR Setup](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/wordpress-cookie-consent-without-plugin-2026.md): Install CookieBeam on WordPress with the recommended plugin or a manual synchronous loader. Check theme hook order, managed scripts, and optimizer settings before publishing. - [Shopify Cookie Consent: GDPR and CCPA Setup Guide for 2026](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/shopify-cookie-consent-banner-setup-2026.md): Shopify's built-in cookie banner covers the basics, but falls short for stores selling into the EU, California, or multiple regions at once. This guide walks through what Shopify gives you, where it stops, and how to add a proper consent layer with CookieBeam. - [How to Scan Your Website for Cookies: A Practical Automated Auditing Guide](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/scan-website-cookies-automated-audit-2026.md): Walk through your first automated cookie scan, from triggering the crawl to interpreting results and acting on what the scanner finds. Covers cookies, scripts, and network connections. - [Remix Cookie Consent: Server-Side Rendering and GDPR](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/remix-cookie-consent-guide-2026.md): Add GDPR-compliant cookie consent to a Remix app. Covers script placement in root.tsx, streaming SSR considerations, consent-aware loaders, and the framework-specific quirks that trip up most implementations. - [Jekyll Cookie Consent: Add GDPR Compliance to Your GitHub Pages Site](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/jekyll-cookie-consent-guide-2026.md): How to add a cookie consent banner to a Jekyll site hosted on GitHub Pages. Covers _includes setup, blocking analytics scripts, and working within Jekyll's static-site constraints. - [Hugo Static Site Cookie Consent: Quick GDPR Setup](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/hugo-cookie-consent-guide-2026.md): Add a GDPR-compliant cookie consent banner to your Hugo site in minutes. Covers partial templates, baseof.html integration, script blocking, and the static-site-specific gotchas most guides skip. - [Gatsby Cookie Consent: Add GDPR Compliance to Your Static Site](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/gatsby-cookie-consent-guide-2026.md): How to add a compliant cookie consent banner to a Gatsby site. Covers gatsby-ssr.js script injection, blocking third-party scripts until consent, and handling consent in a static-site context. - [Eleventy (11ty) Cookie Consent: Lightweight GDPR Setup for Static Sites](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/eleventy-11ty-cookie-consent-guide-2026.md): Add a GDPR-compliant cookie banner to your Eleventy site. Covers Nunjucks/Liquid includes, blocking third-party scripts, and keeping your 11ty build fast. - [Cookie Consent for Startups: The Minimum Viable Privacy Setup](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/cookie-consent-for-startups-mvp-2026.md): You're building fast, shipping faster, and privacy compliance is the last thing on your mind. Here's the smallest setup that keeps you legal without slowing you down. - [Cookie Consent on Drupal: Klaro and the Modules](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/drupal-cookie-consent-klaro-2026.md): Drupal core has no cookie banner, so consent comes from a contrib module. In 2026 the default has shifted: EU Cookie Compliance is minimally maintained and points users to Klaro, which the new Drupal CMS adopted. - [WooCommerce Cookie Consent: The 2026 Setup Guide](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/woocommerce-cookie-consent-guide-2026.md): WooCommerce's own cart and session cookies are strictly necessary and need no consent. The tracking that does need consent comes from the plugins you add: Google for WooCommerce, Meta pixels, abandoned-cart tools. Here's what to block, what to leave alone, and how not to break checkout. - [Cookie Consent on Webflow: No-Code and Custom Code](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/webflow-cookie-consent-guide-2026.md): Webflow has no native, granular consent manager. Here's how to add a compliant cookie banner in 2026 using custom code, get the load order right so nothing tracks before consent, and wire up Consent Mode v2. - [Cookie Consent in Vue and Nuxt: Gating Scripts Right](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/vue-nuxt-cookie-consent-guide-2026.md): A developer's guide to cookie consent in Vue and Nuxt apps in 2026: avoiding hydration mismatches, deferring third-party scripts until consent with Nuxt Scripts, and wiring nuxt-gtag to Consent Mode v2. - [Cookie Consent on Squarespace: Native Banner or CMP](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/squarespace-cookie-consent-guide-2026.md): Squarespace has a built-in cookie banner, but it doesn't block non-essential scripts before consent or keep an audit log. Here's what the native banner does, where it falls short, and how to add a real CMP with Code Injection. - [Shopify Customer Privacy API: How Cookie Consent Works on the Platform](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/shopify-cookie-consent-customer-privacy-api-2026.md): How cookie consent actually works on Shopify in 2026: the built-in banner, the Customer Privacy API (setTrackingConsent, visitorConsentCollected), Google Consent Mode v2, and when to add a dedicated CMP. - [PWA Consent: Service Workers, Cache, and Push in Scope](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/pwa-service-worker-cookie-consent-2026.md): The cookie rule was never only about cookies. A service worker's cache, its IndexedDB store, and a push subscription are all storage on the user's device, which means a PWA can trigger consent without setting a single cookie. - [Cookie Consent Across Multiple Brands and Domains](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/multi-brand-multi-domain-cookie-consent-setup-2026.md): Running several brands or domains, the first question isn't technical, it's who the data controller is for each one. That answer decides whether you can share consent or must keep it separate. Here's how to structure a multi-property setup. - [Cookie Consent on Magento and Adobe Commerce](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/magento-adobe-commerce-cookie-consent-2026.md): Adobe Commerce ships a native Cookie Restriction Mode, but it only shows a notice bar. It doesn't offer per-category choice, log consent, or signal Google Consent Mode. Here's how to configure it and close the gaps in 2026. - [Cookie Consent on Joomla: What Core Doesn't Do](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/joomla-cookie-consent-gdpr-2026.md): Joomla ships privacy tools (a data-request dashboard and a Privacy Consent plugin), but none of it is a cookie banner. Core won't stop a single analytics cookie on page load. Here's how to add real consent. - [Cookie Consent on HubSpot: Banner Settings](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/hubspot-cookie-consent-banner-2026.md): HubSpot's native consent banner can do real opt-in blocking, but only for HubSpot's own cookies and the Google tags it manages. If cookies load before anyone clicks, the banner is almost certainly set to Notification. - [How to Block Scripts Before Consent](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/how-to-block-scripts-before-consent-2026.md): Prior blocking holds non-essential scripts until consent. CookieBeam automates this with a scanner-driven script map, a 5-layer runtime blocking engine, connection-level interception, and continuous drift detection. - [How to Add a Cookie Banner to Any Website](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/how-to-add-cookie-banner-to-any-website-2026.md): A cookie banner has three jobs: block non-essential trackers until the visitor decides, record the choice, and re-apply it. This guide walks through adding a working one to any site, from WordPress to hand-coded HTML. - [Ghost Cookie Consent: Code Injection Setup 2026](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/ghost-cms-cookie-consent-guide-2026.md): Ghost's built-in analytics is cookie-free and needs no banner. But the moment you add Google Analytics, a Meta pixel, Disqus, or an embed through Code Injection, you're setting third-party cookies. Here's how to add a compliant banner and block those tags until consent. - [Cookie Consent on Framer: Add a Compliant Banner](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/framer-cookie-consent-guide-2026.md): Framer's built-in cookie banner is basic and Google-only. Here is how to add a fully compliant consent banner in 2026 with custom code, place it so nothing tracks before consent, and connect Consent Mode v2. - [Cookie Consent on BigCommerce: Script Manager](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/bigcommerce-cookie-consent-script-manager-2026.md): BigCommerce is one of the few hosted platforms whose native banner really blocks scripts, if you register them in Script Manager and tag each with a consent category. The catch is everything that skips Script Manager. - [Cookie Consent on AMP Pages: amp-consent Explained](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/amp-pages-cookie-consent-2026.md): AMP won't run your normal CMP script. Consent on AMP goes through one component, amp-consent, plus a data-block-on-consent attribute on every tag you need to hold. Here's how the pieces fit together in 2026. - [How to Audit Your Website's Cookies: A Step-by-Step Guide](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/how-to-audit-website-cookies.md): A hands-on guide to auditing the cookies and trackers on your website, from a manual DevTools pass to automated scanning, categorisation, and keeping the inventory accurate over time. - [How to Customize Your Cookie Banner Design](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/customize-banner.md): Make your CookieBeam consent banner match your brand. Customize colors, typography, layout, button styles, and positioning without writing code. - [How to Categorize Your Cookies in CookieBeam](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/cookie-categories.md): A practical, step-by-step guide to assigning every cookie on your site to the right consent category in CookieBeam, from auto-classification to manual overrides. - [CookieBeam Quickstart: Set Up and Verify Your Cookie Banner](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/cookiebeam-quickstart-setup.md): Create, configure, publish, and verify your CookieBeam banner. Follow the direct-loader installation steps and check consent behavior on your own site. - [How Consent Signals Work in Server-side Tagging](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/how-consent-signals-work-in-server-side-tagging.md): Learn about How Consent Signals Work in Server-side Tagging - [Complete Banner Setup Guide](https://cookiebeam.com/guides/setup-banner.md): Learn how to set up your cookie consent banner from scratch, including installation, configuration, and testing.