Privacy-First Age Gate WordPress Plugin

Privacy-First Age Gate

Privacy-First Age Gate gives WordPress sites a polished visitor notice with two clear options: a one-click confirmation or a birth-date calculation that runs entirely in the visitor's browser.

The entered date is never saved or transmitted. Only a minimal confirmation flag and optional expiry remain in local or session browser storage.

Two Gate Modes

- Simple confirmation: visitors confirm that they meet your stated requirement.

- Local birth-date calculation: the browser validates the calendar date and checks the configured minimum age without sending the date anywhere.

Included Features

- Site-wide confirmation setting

- Per-post and per-page require, skip, or inherit control

- Configurable minimum age from 1 through 120

- Midnight, Paper, and Berry themes

- Custom eyebrow, heading, message, birth-date label, privacy note, and under-age response

- Custom confirmation and exit controls plus an optional policy link

- Session-only or time-limited browser-local confirmation

- Optional bypass for logged-in users

- Labelled modal dialog and mode-aware initial focus

- Tab and Shift+Tab focus containment

- Escape cannot silently bypass the notice

- Visible keyboard focus and validation states

- Server-side sanitization and capability-protected content settings

- No analytics, telemetry, remote scripts, external libraries, or plugin-created outbound requests

Requirements

- WordPress 6.3 or newer

- PHP 7.4 or newer

Important Limitation

This product is a visitor notice and local age calculation. It does not verify identity, enforce access as a security boundary, guarantee legal or regulatory compliance, or replace advice from a qualified professional.

Package Contents

- Installable WordPress plugin ZIP

- English HTML documentation

- GPL license text

- Changelog and privacy boundary

No third-party images, fonts, libraries, accounts, or subscriptions are included or required. Preview content is fictional demonstration copy.

Features

• Simple confirmation mode

• Browser-only birth-date calculation

• Strict calendar and birthday-boundary validation

• Configurable minimum age from 1 through 120

• Midnight, Paper, and Berry themes

• Site-wide and per-post/page controls

• Custom privacy note and under-age response

• Optional exit and policy links

• Session or time-limited minimal local confirmation

• Accessible modal, focus containment, and visible validation

• No saved or transmitted birth date

• No analytics, telemetry, remote scripts, or outbound requests

Requirements

WordPress 6.3 or newer

PHP 7.4 or newer

A modern browser with JavaScript enabled for the visitor-facing gate

Instructions

1. Upload the included installable plugin ZIP in WordPress under Plugins > Add New Plugin > Upload Plugin.

2. Activate Privacy-First Age Gate.

3. Open Settings > Privacy-First Age Gate.

4. Choose simple confirmation or local birth-date calculation.

5. Set the minimum age, theme, wording, duration, and optional exit or policy links.

6. Enable the site-wide gate or use the Age Gate box on individual posts and pages.

7. Test the gate in a signed-out browser before publishing.