Description
Kipphard Age Verification protects your WordPress site or specific pages from access by underage visitors. A full-screen overlay appears before any content is visible. The visitor confirms their minimum age by clicking a button or entering their date of birth.
What this plugin does:
- Full-screen fail-safe overlay — visible by default via CSS; JavaScript removes it only when a valid confirmation cookie exists or the visitor confirms
- Two verification modes: simple confirmation (Yes / No) or date-of-birth entry
- Date-of-birth calculation runs entirely in the visitor’s browser — no personal data is ever sent to the server
- Configurable scope: entire website or specific pages by ID
- Customisable overlay background colour, accent colour (buttons), and optional logo
- Configurable decline action: show an inline message or redirect to a URL
- Functional cookie (
kipphard_age_verification_ok=1) stores confirmation for 1–3650 days (no tracking, no profiling, no PII) - Optional branding notice in the overlay footer — can be switched off in the settings
- No external dependencies, no CDN, no third-party requests
What this plugin does NOT do:
This overlay is a confirmation barrier — it honestly communicates an age restriction and makes access harder for underage visitors. It is not a hard identity verification. A genuine age check requires ID-based methods (document scan, PostIdent, or equivalent). For legally critical content regulated by youth-protection law, consult a qualified lawyer. Pro-roadmap items include ID-based verification integrations.
Free vs. Pro:
The free version gates the entire site or individual pages, with full control over text, design, and cookie duration. Age Verification Pro adds:
- WooCommerce integration: gate only products in specific categories
Hinweis (DE): Dieses Plugin zeigt einen DSGVO-konformen Vollbild-Overlay (Age Gate), bevor Besucher auf deine Inhalte zugreifen können. Die Altersberechnung erfolgt ausschließlich im Browser – keine personenbezogenen Daten werden an den Server übertragen. Die Benutzeroberfläche ist auf Deutsch verfügbar.
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Installation
- Upload the
kipphard-age-verificationfolder to/wp-content/plugins/, or install it from the Plugins screen in your WordPress admin. - Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress.
- Go to Age Verification in the admin menu and configure your settings.
- Save — the overlay is active immediately.
FAQ
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Is this a legally binding age check?
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No. This overlay is a confirmation barrier that makes it harder for underage visitors to access content and provides an honest notice. It is not a hard identity verification. A genuine check requires ID-based methods (document scan, PostIdent, or equivalent). For content regulated by youth-protection law, get qualified legal advice.
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Is any personal data stored or transmitted?
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No. When using the “date of birth” mode, the date is calculated entirely in the visitor’s browser and never sent to the server. After confirmation, only an anonymous functional cookie (
kipphard_age_verification_ok=1) is set. -
What happens if JavaScript is disabled?
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The overlay stays visible (fail-safe). Content is inaccessible without JavaScript.
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Does the plugin work with WooCommerce?
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The free version gates the entire site or specific pages. The Pro version enables gating at the WooCommerce product-category level.
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Can I customise the design?
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Yes. You can choose the overlay background colour, accent colour, and an optional logo directly in the settings, and you can switch off the branding notice in the overlay footer.
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The cookie
kipphard_age_verification_ok=1is set by JavaScript after confirmation — no server request is involved. It applies to path/, has a configurable lifetime (1–3650 days), and is markedSameSite=Lax.
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Contributors & Developers
“Age Verification – GDPR Age Gate for WooCommerce” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
0.4.3
- Changed: the WordPress.org build no longer bundles translation files (.po/.mo). Translations are delivered as language packs from translate.wordpress.org (WordPress.org review feedback).
0.4.2
- Changed: the critical overlay CSS is now attached via wp_add_inline_style() instead of being echoed as a raw style tag on wp_head (WordPress.org review feedback).
0.4.1
- Fixed: the bundled German translation now loads. WordPress only auto-loads translations shipped as language packs, so the de_DE catalog included with the plugin was never used.
- Fixed: the age gate and admin screens used German source strings, so English sites saw a German heading and menu. English is now the source language and German comes from the translation.
- Fixed: the date-of-birth day and month placeholders were hardcoded German (“TT”/”MM”) and could not be translated.
0.4.0
- Renamed to Kipphard Age Verification. Unique plugin-specific prefixes for all options, nonces, admin-post actions, the cookie name, and filter hooks. The branding-notice toggle is now a free setting (previously gated behind a non-functional license check). Removed the geo-targeting and custom CSS fields, which were unimplemented placeholders never gated by any real Pro mechanism. The only remaining Pro feature is genuine: WooCommerce product-category gating, shipped as a separate add-on class.
0.3.1
- Shared Kipphard design system (kip-ui) for a consistent, theme-safe look across all Kipphard plugins.
0.3.0
- Shared design system integration; admin UI polish.
0.2.0
- English source baseline with a German (de_DE) translation.
0.1.0
- Initial release.
- Full-screen fail-safe overlay (CSS visible by default; JS removes it on valid cookie or confirmation).
- Two modes: simple confirmation (Yes / No) and date-of-birth entry.
- Configurable scope: entire site or specific pages by ID.
- Customisable overlay colour, accent colour, logo URL, and button labels.
- Configurable decline action: show message or redirect to URL.
- Functional cookie with configurable duration (no PII, no tracking).
- Admin settings page with Pro upgrade teaser.
- Pro hooks: WooCommerce category gating, geo-targeting, white-label, custom CSS.
- No external dependencies, no CDN, no third-party requests.