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Real Cookie Banner (Free) 5.2.7

Does Real Cookie Banner (Free) work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
4PHP deprecation warnings
1Database errors
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 1.82 MiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: insignificant.
The plugin didn't make the site noticeably slower.

Environment
WordPress version6.9
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 100,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/real-cookie-banner/
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Pages 3

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=real-cookie-banner%2Findex.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=7f621b6f81
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.564 s
Memory usage 5.6 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Cookies 

Page screenshot: Cookies 
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=real-cookie-banner-component
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.279 s
Memory usage 5.95 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Page screenshot: Test site – Just another WordPress site
URL /
Aspect front-page
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.218 s
Memory usage 5.65 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.425 s0.452 s+0.027 s3.77 MiB5.44 MiB+ 1.67 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.355 s0.358 s+0.003 s3.78 MiB5.47 MiB+ 1.69 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.858 s0.913 s+0.055 s6.3 MiB9 MiB+ 2.7 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.637 s0.520 s-0.117 s3.74 MiB5.34 MiB+ 1.61 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.328 s0.337 s+0.009 s3.71 MiB5.33 MiB+ 1.62 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.506 s0.388 s-0.118 s3.7 MiB5.32 MiB+ 1.63 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.454 s0.348 s-0.106 s3.71 MiB5.34 MiB+ 1.62 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.683 s0.813 s+0.130 s6.29 MiB9 MiB+ 2.71 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.333 s0.391 s+0.058 s3.71 MiB5.32 MiB+ 1.61 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.320 s0.381 s+0.061 s3.73 MiB5.4 MiB+ 1.67 MiB
/0.271 s0.181 s-0.090 s4.1 MiB5.65 MiB+ 1.55 MiB
Average 0.470 s0.462 s-0.008 s4.23 MiB6.06 MiB+ 1.82 MiB

Code Statistics

Note: Third-party libraries and minified JS/CSS files are excluded from these statistics where possible, so the numbers you see here may be lower than those reported by other tools.

PHP
Markdown
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP58.1%16,4538,561157
Markdown34.1%9,63803
JSON7.7%2,17101
XML0.1%2041
SVG0.0%14014
JavaScript0.0%502
CSS0.0%161
Total 28,302 8,571 179

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 16,069
Total complexity 3,393
Median class complexity 12.5
Median method complexity 1.0
Most complex class DevOwl\RealCookieBanner\view\Notices
Most complex function DevOwl\RealCookieBanner\comp\TemplatesPluginIntegrations::templates_plugin_false_positives()
Classes 116
Methods 996
Functions 11

Additions

Things that the plugin adds to the site. This section is not intended to be comprehensive. The test tool only looks for a few specific types of added content.

Database Tables 17

Options wp_options 310

Custom Post Types 3

ID Name
rcb-cookieCookies
rcb-blockerContent Blockers
rcb-banner-linkBanner links

Capabilities 1

PHP Error Log 5 lines

[02-Dec-2025 23:47:08 UTC] WordPress database error Table 'wordpress.wp_rcb_template' doesn't exist for query SHOW INDEX FROM wp_rcb_template made by activate_plugin, do_action('activate_real-cookie-banner/index.php'), WP_Hook->do_action, WP_Hook->apply_filters, DevOwl\RealCookieBanner\Activator->install, DevOwl\RealCookieBanner\Activator->dbDelta, DevOwl\RealCookieBanner\Activator->removeIndicesFromTable
[02-Dec-2025 23:47:15 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 23:47:15 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 23:47:27 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 23:47:27 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide the "Cookies" Admin Menu