Configuring Basic Age Verification Rules

The General tab is where you decide how visitors confirm their age, the minimum age, and where under-age visitors are sent. Open it from Age Verification → Settings in your WordPress menu.

Quick start: the setup wizard

The first time you activate the plugin, a three-step setup wizard opens: pick the minimum age and method, choose a colour style and texts, then decide whether to go live or keep test mode on. You can open it again at any time with the Setup wizard button at the top of the settings screen.

Verification method

• Yes / No buttons — the fastest option. Visitors click “I am 18 or older” or “I am under 18”.

• Date of birth — separate Day / Month / Year fields, shown in each visitor’s own language and order. The age is calculated in the browser; no date of birth is stored.

• Both — Yes / No buttons with a date-of-birth option underneath.

Real ID checks (Stripe Identity, Veriff, AgeChecker.Net) and ID document upload are available in Advanced Age Verification Pro.

Minimum age

Enter the legal age for your products, for example 18 or 21. The button labels in the wizard update to match.

Under-age page

Choose where visitors go when they are too young or click the exit button:

• One of your own pages — pick it from the dropdown.

• Another website — choose “Another website” and enter the address.

• Create a “Sorry” page for me — one click publishes a friendly “Sorry, come back later” page, keeps it free of the popup and selects it. Click Save Changes afterwards.

The popup never appears on the under-age page itself, so visitors can’t get stuck in a loop.

Live preview

The preview on the right updates as you type and switches between Desktop and Mobile. To see the real popup on your site while logged in, click Preview at the top — the preview link never sets a cookie, so you can test it as often as you like.

Status and verification counter

The cards at the top of the General tab show whether the gate is Live or in Test mode, and how many visitors were verified or turned away in the last 30 days. The same numbers for the current week appear in the Age verification this week widget on your WordPress dashboard.

Save

Click Save Changes in the bar at the bottom (or press Ctrl / Cmd + S). If you use a caching plugin, clear the page cache once after changing the popup.